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Thus Attica had a temple to Theseus, the Ionian hero; the shrine of AEsculapius at Epidau'rus was famous throughout the classic world; and the exploits of Hercules were commemorated by the Dorians at the tomb of a Ne'mean king.
Here, also, was the Lernae'an Lake, where the hero slew the many-headed hydra; Ne'mea, the haunt of the lion slain by Hercules, and the seat of the celebrated Ne'mean games; and Myce'nae, the royal city of Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks in the Trojan War now known, only by its ruins and its legends of by-gone ages.
Full oft the god his son's hard toils bemoaned, Cursed the dire folly, and in secret groaned. HOMER'S Iliad, B. XIX. POPE'S Trans. The following, in brief, are the twelve labors attributed to Hercules: 1. He strangled the Ne'mean lion, and ever after wore his skin. 2. He destroyed the Lernae'an hydra, which had nine heads, eight of them mortal and one immortal. 3.
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