Lion of Cithaeron

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Hercules and the Lion of Cithaeron (German fireback, 17th century)

The Lion of

Alcathous of Elis
.

According to the

Ancient Greek: χαράδρα, charadra).[1]

Heracles

One account of the myth, recorded by Apollodorus in the Bibliotheca, states that the lion came from Cithaeron to hunt the cattle belonging to Amphitryon and to King Thespius of Thespiae. When Heracles was eighteen years old, Thespius asked him to kill the lion. The hunt took Heracles fifty days, during which Thespius hosted him (and each night of which Heracles slept with a different daughter of the king). After Heracles slew the lion, he dressed himself in its skin and wore its scalp as a helmet.[2] According to the Suda, it was killed near Thespiae, before Heracles killed the Nemean lion.[1]

Alcathous

According to

Ancient Greek: Ἀπόλλωνα Ἀγραῖον).[3][4]

Notes

  1. ^ Which is also spelled Kathairon or Kithairon, and the beast is thus sometimes called the Lion of Kathairon.

References

  1. ^ a b Suda. pp. chi.88.
  2. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. "4". Bibliotheca [The Library] (in Ancient Greek). Vol. 2. pp. 10–11.
  3. ^ Pausanias. "41". Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις [Description of Greece] (in Ancient Greek). Vol. 1. pp. 3–6.
  4. ^ William Smith (1873). "Agraeus". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)