Book 2
42.6
But one day a year, at the festival of Zeus, they cut in pieces and flay a single ram and put the fleece on the image of Zeus, as in the story; then they bring an image of Heracles near it. Having done this, all that are at the temple mourn for the ram, and then bury it in a sacred coffin.
43.1
Concerning Heracles, I heard it said that he was one of the twelve gods. But nowhere in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt could I hear anything about the other Heracles, whom the Greeks know.
43.2
I have indeed a lot of other evidence that the name of Heracles did not come from Greece [22,39] (nation), Europe Hellas to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , but from Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt to Greece [22,39] (nation), Europe Hellas (and in Greece [22,39] (nation), Europe Hellas to those Greeks who gave the name Heracles to the son of Amphitryon), besides this: that Amphitryon and Alcmene, the parents of this Heracles, were both Egyptian by descentAs grandchildren of Perseus, for whose Egyptian origin see Hdt. 2.91. ; and that the Egyptians deny knowing the names Poseidon and the Dioscuri, nor are these gods reckoned among the gods of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt .
