Nemean

I confess I did find the practice a bit annoying when I was reading Pindar's Olympian, Nemean, and Isthmian Odes.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history 2008

The image of Hercules fighting the Nemean lion is also found in the Door of the Virtues. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

I confess I did find the practice a bit annoying when I was reading Pindar's Olympian, Nemean, and Isthmian Odes.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history 2008

Naturally Antony was in full armor, silver-plated, and with Hercules slaying the Nemean lion worked on its contoured cuirass.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Peloponnesus, supposing that the god meant the Nemea there; and coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle; for all that region was called the sacred place of Nemean Zeus.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Nemean road, where the Argives had taken up their position, in order that, if the Argives should return and attack his own division of the army in the plain, they might be pursued and harassed by their cavalry.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

At dawn the Argives became aware of his departure, and moved first towards Argos, then to the Nemean road, by which they expected the Lacedaemonians and their allies to descend into the plain.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Naturally Antony was in full armor, silver-plated, and with Hercules slaying the Nemean lion worked on its contoured cuirass.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Does anyone believe that Hercules performed super human feats of strength during his 12 labors, like choking the Nemean lion to death or capturing Cerberus, the vicious guardian of Hades?

Religious Fundamentalists, Militant Atheists: Both Are Misguided and Dangerous 2007

Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay; 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.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007