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The story has been taken from the “Great Eoiae”; for there we find Heracles entertained by Telamon, standing dressed in his lion-skin and praying, and there also we find the eagle sent by
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A moment later Lupus was back, followed by a dark-skinned girl in a lion-skin cloak and a fair-haired girl wearing a blue palla.
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Once a god and now a Disney superhero, Hercules attended the ceremony in his usual but oh-so-elegant lion-skin cardigan.
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Once a god and now a Disney superhero, Hercules attended the ceremony in his usual but oh-so-elegant lion-skin cardigan.
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Once a god and now a Disney superhero, Hercules attended the ceremony in his usual but oh-so-elegant lion-skin cardigan.
The Pageant, the Party, the Parade at eternallycool.net 2007
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The popularity of using lion-skin boots in many expressions of art on the one hand eventually lead to a reduction of its rich expression, but on the other hand it also enhanced its becoming a symbol of power providing gods wearing this attribute with a supernatural dimension.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1 2003
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The real lion-skin boot only made its first appearance in the reign of Augustus.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1 2003
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Based upon these considerations, the fragments of lion-skin boots at Sagalassos provide several facts about the statue to which it once belonged.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1 2003
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Whereas lion-skin boots are really exclusive in their appearance on Augustan or early Imperial monuments, their numbers, clearly increase in the course of time to reach their maximal appearance under Hadrian.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Sculptural Studies Report 1 2003
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The gelding had been brushed and combed and the lion-skin chabraque was laid carefully over a rail.
Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990
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