Shield of Heracles

Original Title: Aspis Hērakleous
Author:
Hesiod
Date: c. end of the 7th to the middle of the 6th century BCE
Country: Ancient Greece

The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly.