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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.).

And the Greeks say many other ill-considered things, too; among them, this is a silly story which they tell about Heracles: that when he came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, the Egyptians crowned him and led him out in a procession to sacrifice him to Zeus; and for a while (they say) he followed quietly, but when they started in on him at the altar, he resisted and killed them all.