“…27 Foley 1985, affirms that "the epic tradition as a whole (the Odyssey, the Little Iliad of Lesches) recognized that both the direct violence of the spearman and the strategy of the bowman were necessary to success in warfare".28 On the agon between Lycus and Amphitryon in Heracles, cf. Parmentier inParmentier, Grégoire 1923, 11-13, Taragna Novo 1973, Hamilton 1985, Foley 1985, 169-175, George 1994, Moggi 2002, 198-201, Casadio 2010, 53-59, Fernández Delgado 2013, Ieranò 2016 There are certain Greek characters that stand out as archers and in whose hands the bows do not seem such lowly weapons. One of them is Heracles.…”