547 Eusebius, _Chronic._ i. 69, ed. A. Schoene (Berlin, 1866-1875). 548 Herodotus, i. 50. At Thebes there was a stone lion which was said to have been dedicated by Hercules (Pausanias, ix. 17. 2). 549 B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), p. 553; _id._, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lydia_ (London, 1901), pp. xcviii, 239, 240, 241, 244, 247, 253, 254, 264, with plates xxiv. 9-11, 13, XXV. 2, 12, xxvii. 8. M137 Identity of the Lydian and Cilician Hercules. 550 See above, p. 143. M138 The Cilician and Lydian Hercules (Sandan or Sandon) seems to have been a Hittite deity. 551 Herodotus, ii. 106; G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _Histoire de l’Art dans l’Antiquité_, iv. 742-752; L. Messerschmidt, _Corpus Inscriptionum Hettiticarum_, pp. 33-37, with plates xxxvii., xxxviii.; J. Garstang, _The Land of the Hittites_, pp. 170-173, with plate liv. 552 Pausanias, iii. 24. 2, v. 13. 7 with my note; G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez, _op. cit._ iv. 752-759; L. Messerschmidt, _op. cit._ pp. 37 _sq._, pl. xxxix. 1; J. Garstang, _The Land of the Hittites_, pp. 167-170, with plate liii. Unlike most Hittite sculptures the figure of Mother Plastene is carved almost in the round. The inscriptions which accompany both these Lydian monuments are much defaced. 553 The suggestion that the Heraclid kings of Lydia were Hittites, or under Hittite influence, is not novel. See W. Wright, _Empire of the Hittites_, p. 59; E. Meyer, _Geschichte des Alterthums_, i. (Stuttgart, 1884) p. 307, § 257; Fr. Hommel, _Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des alten Orients_, p. 54, note 2; L. Messerschmidt, _The Hittites_, p. 22. M139 Death and resurrection of the Lydian hero Tylon. Feast of the Golden Flower at Sardes. 554 See above, pp. 110 _sqq._ 555 Dionysius Halicarnasensis, _Antiquit. Roman._ i. 27. 1. 556 Nonnus, _Dionys._ xxv. 451-551; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxv. 14. The story, as we learn from Pliny, was told by Xanthus, an early historian of Lydia. 557 Thus Glaucus, son of Minos, was restored to life by the seer Polyidus, who learned the trick from a serpent. See Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, iii. 3. 1. For references to other tales of the same sort see my note on Pausanias, ii. 10. 3 (vol. iii. pp. 65 _sq._). The serpent’s acquaintance with the tree of life in the garden of Eden perhaps belongs to the same cycle of stories.