24- Heracles/Hercules Part III: The Nemean Lion

Nemea has a lion waiting for Heracles. Expect stories of fighting in caves, thirty-day deadlines and a king cowering in a jar... Sources for this episode: Alden, M. (2005), Lions in Paradise. The Classical Quarterly 55(2):335-342. Evelyn-White, H. G. (1943), Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. London: William Heinemann Ltd. Frazer, J. G. (1921), Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I). London: William Heinemann. Guerber, H. A. (1929), The Myths of Greece & Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin. London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. Masetti, M. and Mazza, P. P. A. (2013), Western European Quaternary lions: new working hypotheses. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109: 66-77. Oldfather, C. H. (translator, 1953), Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes. Volume II: Books II (continued), 35-IV, 58. London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: William Heinemann Ltd. and Harvard University Press. Stuart, A. J. and Lister, A. M. (2011), Extinction chronology of the cave lion Panthera spelea. Quaternary Science Reviews: 2329-2340. Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Nemea (online) (Accessed 20/02/2024).