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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7966286" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, if you just put "ancient greece hades statue" into Google image search you'll find loads that meet my description re: "action poses" (and they're all renaissance or later - so much later, like 1800s).And everything you have there is either:A) Renaissance or later, so has little to do with actual "classical traditions", as I said.B) Is actually of PLUTO, not Hades, who is associated, weakly, with the Bident.If you look into actual Ancient Greek imagery of Hades specifically, you will quickly see he is always seated or in repose and never has a bident, though very often a staff. Pluto is obviously closely related, but has somewhat different traditions associated with him, as is often the case with Greek/Roman versions of those gods.</blockquote>