Heracles With Lion : Heracles Wearing Lion Skin Stock Photo Alamy / First labour of heracles hercules' fight with the nemean lion, pieter paul rubens.
Heracles With Lion : Heracles Wearing Lion Skin Stock Photo Alamy / First labour of heracles hercules' fight with the nemean lion, pieter paul rubens. . Hercules was ordered to slay the lion and bring back his skin. The caption under the picture refers to the greek hero by his roman name, as hercules. See hercules lion stock video clips. His iconic attributes are the lion skin which he wears on his head he is very large and heavy (35lbs). Heracles, better known in the modern world by his roman name, hercules, stands out among the other heroes. Hercules (or herakles) fighting the nemean lion on an ancient greek clay pitcher in black figure style. His main cult centre was at thebes, the place of his birth in myth. Hercules was ordered to slay the lion and bring back his skin. Heracles eventually found the lion roaming, and shot many arrows against it. The nemean lion known as leon nemeios (λεον νεμειος), was the son of the monster ekhidna, it dwelled in nemea, nort...