Nemean Lion: Did you mean...?

Covered pathway dotted with lion-pillars, Vaikuntanathaperumal Temple, Kanchipuram, India. 755-790 CE.

A lion from the pediment of the Parthenon in the Museum of the Acropolis. Construction: 447-432 BCE

Book Cover of Dancing with the Lion: Becoming, written by Dr. Jeanne Reames. Artwork by L.C. Chase Copyright Riptide Publishing, LLC. Reprinted with permission.

A panel from a larger floor mosaic depicting a hunting lion, Tarentum, southern Italy, Late 2nd, early 3rd century CE. (National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Italy)

Book Cover of Dancing with the Lion: Rise, written by Dr. Jeanne Reames. Artwork by L.C. Chase Copyright Riptide Publishing, LLC. Reprinted with permission.

Copper alloy head of a lion or cub, which may have acted as a guardian at the entrance to the Temple of Ninhursag at Tell Al-Ubaid, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Early Dynastic Period, c. 2500 BCE...

Gypsum wall panel relief depicting two musicians, playing a harp and a lyre. One is a young man wearing a feather headdress and the other is a woman wearing a fillet of large beads. A tame lion beneath palms and cypresses...

Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek hero Herakles, the most popular figure from ancient Greek mythology. Hercules was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the mortal woman Alcmene. Zeus, who was always...

One of the few free-standing sculptures from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 4th century BCE. (British Museum, London)

Cast in copper alloy, this Hurrian foundation peg dates to circa 2200-2100 BCE. It measures 11.7 cm high x 7.9 cm wide. Artist unknown, from Syria. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).