Nemean Lion
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1 expressionThe Nemean Lion1 mention
Theogony (Greek)
but Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men.
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythical lion defeated by Hercules as one of his labors
Hercules, whom that very thing which you would have to be irascibility — that is, fortitude — raised to heaven, do you think fought angrily with the Erymanthian boar or the Nemean lion?
Heracles
The lion of Nemea, strangled by Heracles as his first labor, whose skin became his signature garment.
First he cleared the grove of Zeus of a lion, and put its skin upon his back, hiding his yellow auburn hair in its fearful gaping jaws.
After all, what was the fine exploit your husband achieved, if he did kill a water-snake in a marsh or that monster of Nemea?
Theogony
A lion born to Echidna and Orthus, raised by Hera to haunt the hills of Nemea as a plague to men, eventually overcome by Heracles.
but Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men.
There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of Nemea and Apesas:
De Rerum Natura
Mythic lion slain by Hercules as the first of his Twelve Labours.
Of Nemeaean Lion, or what the Boar
For what could hurt us now that mighty maw
De Pallio
Mythological lion slain by Hercules, whose skin is degraded by Omphale's perfuming.
for then it looked about itself and saw that it had lost its lion.