Athenian prowess on the international stage that was Greece at the time. Herakles at the time was the second most mentioned and decorated hero to appear in Athens. Athens wanted to be seen as related not just to their own personal hero Theseus but connect him to Herakles as a relation to the gods. Each metope contains a single deed done by each hero as they tried to reach their goal. This put the polis-hero on equal level to Herakles even including a later version of Theseus that occurred after 460 BCE when Theseus used his club against Periphetes making him look very similar to Herakles. The metopes also draw parallels between the two heroes with the bull to which Herakles captured as his seventh labor from Crete which later Theseus captures and sacrifices to Apollo/Athena. Metopes The thirty metopes of the treasury are 67 cm tall and 62–64 cm wide, nine along the long sides (north and south) and six along the short (east and west), depicted the labors of Theseus and Herakles. This is the earliest surviving juxtaposition of the two. Many of these metopes were found in the surrounding area and it is disputed on the order to which they would have appeared. Theseus was the mythical king of Athens and its founder. Thesean metopes include: Theseus and Athena Theseus and Sinis Theseus and the Crommyonian sow Theseus and Sciron Theseus and Cercyon Theseus and Procrustes Theseus and the Bull of Marathon Theseus and the Minotaur Theseus and the Captive Amazon Heraklean metopes include: Heracles and the Nemean Lion Heracles and the Ceryneian Hind Heracles and the Centaur Heracles and Cycnus Heracles and Orthrus Cows of Geryon (three metopes) Geryon Inscription The platform upon which the treasury stands has a prominent inscription on its south face; it is dated internally to post-490 BCE. ΑΘΕΝΑΙΟΙ Τ[Ο]Ι ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝ[Ι ΑΠΟ ΜΕΔ]ΟΝ ΑΚ[ΡΟΘ]ΙΝΙΑ ΤΕΣ ΜΑΡΑΘ[Ο]ΝΙ Μ[ΑΧΕ]Σ. The Athenians dedicated this to Apollo as first-fruits from the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. Construction The Athenian Treasury in Delphi was built according to a typical distyle in antis design, with two antae framing two columns. The ancient writer and traveler Pausanias was “emphatic that the Athenian Treasury was built [meaning financed] from the spoils from the landing of the Persian general Datis at Marathon”. This means that a date later than 490 BCE, after the Battle of Marathon and accounting for time