Thanks. This is very helpful and I should have guessed
it was something in that vein.
MG
--- Theresa Gross-diaz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is REALLY off the top of my head (it comes from
> my "other life" as a numismatist) but there are
> classical Greek coins from southern Italy that show
> Hercules straddling the Nemean lion as he strangles
> it. It looks very much as if he were riding it. I
> would not be surprised to learn that some sort of
> visual vocabulary of hero/lion transferred that
> position from Herakles to Samson. For what it's
> worth...
> TGD
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