Talk:Nemean lion

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The picture is wrong! that's Kerberos, not the nemean lion. First, it has three heads instead of one, and the tail is a snake. Woah, thats Kerberos! NOT THE LION!

You're right. I've replaced the image with one that I took myself. --Zaqarbal 16:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

supersharp seems unprofessional as a descriptor for the lion's claws. I'm going to change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.204.114.227 (talk) 09:34, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

The article alternates between the names Hercules and Heracles, I am going to limit it to Heracles. If some thinks this is incorrect please tell me on my talk page why before you change,thank you.D3t3ctiv3 (talk) 03:55, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

The article originally says that Heracles needed to complete the task within 30 days but ends by stating that he finished in 3 months. Can someone please explain and clarify. (Nover220 (talk) 22:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC))

Possible source

• Tyrrell, Wm. Blake (Oct. - Nov., 2002). The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc. (ed.). "On Making the Myth of the Nemean Lion". The Classical Journal. 98 (1): 69–71. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) --Anneyh (talk) 19:26, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Pankration

It's been noted in other articles surrounding the martial arts and the legends of Hercules/Heracles that Pankration was the style used to choke the beast, is this note worthy in my fellow contributors opinions?-69.181.134.25 (talk) 06:29, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Herodotus

How could Herodotus talk about the lions' extinction ca 100 BCE when he died some 300 years prior to that? The sentence may be poorly edited. --gejyspa (talk) 20:07, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Source list moved out of article

• Hesiod, Theogony 327 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th or C7th BC)
• Pindar, Isthmian Ode 6. 46 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric poetry C5th BC)
• Aeschylus, Leon (fragment) (Aeschylus II trans. Weir Smyth Vol. p. 420) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Sophocles, Trachinae 1064 ff (trans. Oates and O'Neil) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Euripides, The Madness of Hercules 359 ff (trans. Way) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Euripides, Hercules 556 ff (trans. Oates and O'Neil) (Greek tragedy C5th BC)
• Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 55 (trans. Trypanis) (Greek poetry C3rd BC)
• Callimachus, Uncertain Location Fragment 6 (108) (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C3rd BC):
• Lycophron, Alexandra 1345 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C3rd BC)
• Scholiast on Lycophron, Alexandra 1345 ff (Callimachus and Lycophron Aratus trans. Mair 1921 p. 606)
• Theocritus, Idylls 25. 132 ff (trans. Rist) (Greek bucolic poetry C3rd BC)
• Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 11. 3 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek history C1st BC)
• Lucretius, Of The Nature of Things 5. Proem 1 (trans. Leonard) (Roman philosophy C1st BC)
• Cicero, The Tusculan Disputations 9 (trans. Yonge) (Greco-Roman philosophy C1st BC)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 197 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Ovid, Heroides 9. 61 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
• Ovid, Heroides 9. 87 ff
• Bacchylides papyrus, Fragment 9 (Greek Lyric trans. Campbell Vol. 4) (Greek poetry C1st AD)
• Bacchylides papyrus, Fragment 13
• Philippus of Thessalonica, The Twelve Labors of Hercules (The Greek Classics ed. Miller Vol 3 1909 p. 397) (Greek epigram C1st AD)
• Seneca, Hercules Furens 44 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD)
• Seneca, Hercules Furens 83 ff
• Seneca, Hercules Furens 224 ff
• Seneca, Hercules Furens 798 ff
• Scholiast on Seneca, Hercules Furens 798 (Seneca's Tragedies trans. Miller 1938 1917 Vol 1 p. 73)
• Seneca, Hercules Furens 942 ff
• Seneca, Oedipus 38 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD)
• Seneca, Agamemnon 829 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD)
• Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 17-30 (trans. Miller). (Roman tragedy C1st AD)
• Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 411 ff
• Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1237 ff
• Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1813 ff
• Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1891 ff
• Statius, Thebaid 4. 824 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
• Statius, Thebaid 6. 270 ff
• Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 2 (summary from Photius Myriobiblon 190) (trans. Pearse) (Greek mythography C1st to C2nd AD)
• Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5
• Plutarch, Moralia, On the Fortune of Alexander, 341. 11 ff (trans. Babbitt) (Greek philosophy C1st AD to C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 74 - 76 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 15. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd AD)
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 11. 5
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 25. 7
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 26. 7
• Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. 5. 6
• Aelian, On Animals 12. 7 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd AD)
• Aelian, Historical Miscellany 4. 5 (trans. Wilson) (Greek rhetoric C2nd to 3rd AD)
• Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 30 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 24
• Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6. 10 (trans. Conyreare) (Greek sophistry C3rd AD)
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 208 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry C4th AD)
• Nonnos, Dionysiaca 25. 176 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD)
• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy 4. 7. 13 ff (trans. Rand & Stewart) (Roman philosophy C6th AD)
• Suidas s.v. Nemea (trans. Suda On Line) (Greco-Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th AD)
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2. 232 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history C12 AD)
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 2. 492 ff
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 7. 51 ff
• Tzetzes, Chiliades or Book of Histories 7. 57 ff

– Michael Aurel (talk) 22:41, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Good sources?

Does anyone know of some good reputable sources to enhance this article? It's light on information, which is keeping it as a Start-class article. Culture-Shock-02 (talk) 19:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)