Histories

I found that their account did not tally with the belief of the Greeks, either; for they said that the temple of the god was founded when Tyre [35.183,33.266] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, AsiaTyre first became a city, and that was two thousand three hundred years ago. At +Tyre [35.183,33.266] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Tyre I saw yet another temple of the so-called Thasian Heracles.

Then I went to Thasos (island), Kavalla, Macedonia, Greece, EuropeThasos, too, where I found a temple of Heracles built by the Phoenicians, who made a settlement there when they voyaged in search of Europe (continent)Europe; now they did so as much as five generations before the birth of Heracles the son of Amphitryon in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.

Therefore, what I have discovered by inquiry plainly shows that Heracles is an ancient god. And furthermore, those Greeks, I think, are most in the right, who have established and practise two worships of Heracles, sacrificing to one Heracles as to an immortal, and calling him the Olympian, but to the other bringing offerings as to a dead hero[*](There is a dual Heracles in the Odyssey, Hom. Od. 11.601 ff. An ei)/dwlon of him is seen in the world of the dead; but “he himself” is an immortal among the gods of heaven.).