Nemean lion

First appears: Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

Life events

• Hera raises the Nemean lion, but Heracles overcomes its strength.(Hesiod, Theogony 295-404)
  • With: Hera Heracles
  • “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. There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of Nemea and Apesas: yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him.”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• parent: Echidna “and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea”
• guardian: Hera “which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea”
• with Heracles (interaction) “yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him.”
• parent: Orthus “But Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion”
• enemies with Heracles “yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.