Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Hercules a Celt. [ARTICLE]

Hercules a Celt.

The real Hercules was a Celt. The Cesnola statues, older than those we hate been accustomed to see in our Greek histories, represent him with a bull’s hide on his back, and not with the Eastern lion’s head and skin. The Pillars of Hercules could well have been so styled from the presence of a Celtic conqueror forcing his way in an early migration to the .most southern portion of the Spanish Peninsula.