In Fact However
Heracles Is A Very Ancient Egyptian God; And (As They Say Themselves)
It Is Seventeen Thousand Years To The Beginning Of The Reign Of Amasis
From The Time When The Twelve Gods, Of Whom They Count That Heracles
Is One, Were Begotten Of The Eight Gods.
I moreover, desiring to know
something certain of these matters so far as might be, made a voyage
also
To Tyre of Phenicia, hearing that in that place there was a holy
temple of Heracles; and I saw that it was richly furnished with many
votive offerings besides, and especially there were in it two pillars,
the one of pure gold and the other of an emerald stone of such size as
to shine by night: and having come to speech with the priests of the
god, I asked them how long a time it was since their temple had been
set up: and these also I found to be at variance with the Hellenes,
for they said that at the same time when Tyre was founded, the temple
of the god also had been set up, and that it was a period of two
thousand three hundred years since their people began to dwell at
Tyre. I saw also at Tyre another temple of Heracles, with the surname
Thasian; and I came to Thasos also and there I found a temple of
Heracles set up by the Phenicians, who had sailed out to seek for
Europa and had colonised Thasos; and these things happened full five
generations of men before Heracles the son of Amphitryon was born in
Hellas.
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