EL DRAGO DE CÁDIZ EN UN BRONCE SAMIO DEL SIGLO VII A. C.

Abstract

The identification of the dragoon trees of Cádiz in the scene of the fight of Heracles and Gerion on a archaic sheet of bronze from Samos, gives us the hint that Greek people of the VIIth century b. C. knew directly the landscape of the Heracleion of "Gadir" and the images related to that mythical incident: there was an interchange of stories and iconography between the two remotest parts of the Mediterranean sea since very ancient times. In other representations of the same motif on Greek, Chipriot and Etruscan works, images inspired by that peculiar shape of the Cádiz trees can be seen, and stories that should be narrated in a similar way to the Gerioneïs of Stesichorus of Himera.