Lion of Cithaeron

According to the Suda, it was also called the Thespian lion and the Ravine lion (Ancient Greek: Χαραδραῖος λέων, Charadraios leōn) because it lived in a place called "Ravine" (Ancient Greek: χαράδρα, charadra).

[1] One account of the myth, recorded by Apollodorus in the Bibliotheca, states that the lion came from Cithaeron to hunt the cattle belonging to Amphitryon and to King Thespius of Thespiae.

After Heracles slew the lion, he dressed himself in its skin and wore its scalp as a helmet.

[1] According to Pausanias, writing in the second century BC, the Megarians believed that the Cithaeronian Lion killed many people, including Euippus, the son of their king Megareus.

Alcathous killed the lion and when he became the king, he built the temple of Artemis Agrotera (Huntress) (Ancient Greek: Ἀγροτέραν Ἄρτεμιν) and Apollo Agraeus (Hunter) (Ancient Greek: Ἀπόλλωνα Ἀγραῖον).