Stories Behind Art on Instagram: "Based on an episode from the legend of Heracles (Hercules), the painting shows the gruesome fate of King Diomedes of Thrace, a tyrant who kept man-eating horses and fed them with the flesh of strangers. But when Heracles came as part of his eighth labor, the tables turned. The hero captured Diomedes and, in a fitting twist of mythological irony, fed him to his own beasts. Moreau, a master of symbolism and the macabre, paints the moment not just with violence, bu