Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 142
ne clearly speak,Nor to what toil he is attached; but, simply,Kneeler they call him. As now usually represented, one foot rests on thehead of Draco; in his right hand he holds a club, andin his left a branch around which serpents are twisting;while over his shoulders is thrown the hide of a… … HERCULES 89 to represent the golden fruit of the Hesperides, whichHercules was obliged to wrest from the clutches of thesleepless dragon that guarded the tree. On some mapswe find this branch in the giants left hand replacedby Cerberus, the triple-headed guardian of the lowerregions, one of the…
Constellations · Mythology
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