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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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))[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]