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was eighteen years old, Thespius asked him to kill the lion. The hunt took Heracles fifty days, during which Thespius hosted him (and each night of which Heracles slept with a different daughter of the king). After Heracles slew the lion, he dressed himself in its skin and wore its scalp as a helmet.
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Which is also spelled Kathairon or Kithairon, and the beast is thus sometimes called the Lion of Kathairon.
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According to the Suda, it was killed near Thespiae, before Heracles killed the
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killed the lion and when he became the king, he built the temple of
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believed that the Cithaeronian Lion killed many people, including
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Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources
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One account of the myth, recorded by Apollodorus in the
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
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in Greek mythology which harassed the lands of king
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Index

Cithaeronian lion

fireback
Cithaeron
lion
Amphitryon
Thespius
Megareus
Heracles
Alcathous of Elis
Suda
Thespian
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
Bibliotheca
cattle
Amphitryon
Thespius
Heracles
Nemean lion
Pausanias
Megarians
Euippus
Megareus
his daughter
Alcathous
Artemis
Agrotera
Ancient Greek
Agraeus

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