off topic request

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Sep 21 10:00:13 EDT 2002


At 1:05 PM +0000 9/21/02, jwest at highland.net wrote:
>what is the oldest source of the "Labors of Heracles"?

Jim, have you ever heard of the Perseus web-site? It's a good place to get
answers to questions like that. My understanding is that one of the oldest
pieces of evidence for the "canonical" twelve labors is the pediment of the
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which showed what had evidently already become
traditionally the twelve PONOI or AQLA or whatever; I think the usual
dating of that temple is 6th century b.c.
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Carl W. Conrad
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