A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

1. A bronze statue of Heracles, on a bronze base, dedicated at Olympia by the Thasians. The statue was ten cubits high : in the right hand was a club, in the left a bow : and it bore the following inscription (Paus. l.c.) :--

Υἱὸς μέν με Μίκωνος Ὀνάτας ἐξετέλεσσεν, Αὐτὸς ἐν Αἰγίνη δώματα ϝαιετάων.