European dragon resembling a windsock. Several personifications of evil or allusions to dragon in the Old Testament are translated as forms of "draco" in Jerome's Vulgate. e.g Deuteronomy (32:33), Job (30:29), Psalms (73:13, 90:13 & 43:20), Isaiah (13:21, 27:1, 34:13 & 43:20), Jeremiah (9:11), Micah (1:8) and Malachi (1:3). Dragons in Greek mythology often guard treasure such as Ladon, a hundred headed dragon which guarded the tree of Herdias until he was slain by Heracles. Likewise Python guarded the oracle of Delphi until he was likewise slain by Apollo out of revenge for Python tormenting his mother. The Lerneaen Hydra, a multiple
Temple of Heracles, Agrigento Temple of Heracles, Agrigento The Temple of Heracles or Temple of Hercules (The Roman name of the hero) is a greek temple in the ancient city of Akragas, located in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento. The building, in the archaic Doric style, is found on the hill of the temples, on a rocky spur near the Villa Aurea. The name "Temple of Heracles" is an attribution of modern scholarship, based on Cicero's mention of a temple dedicated to the hero "non longe a foro" "not far from the agora" ("Verrine" II 4.94), containing a famous statue of Heracles. That