Die Herakles-Prometheus-Gruppe aus Pergamon und ihre Bedeutung im Kontext der attalidischen Herrscherrepräsentation

Abstract

The article focuses on a short summary and evaluation of all relevant researchers’ opinions about the Heracles of the Prometheus group in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, whose face shows the portrait of a Hellenistic ruler. By evaluating the former researchers’ opinions on this topic, by comparisons either with coins and sculpture and by a classification of the Prometheus group within similar god like portraits of other hellenistic kingdoms could be confirmed that a member of the Attalid dynasty was portraited as Heracles – and not, as was assumed by most of the former researchers, Mithradates VI. Eupator of Pontos.