widely known. Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic chthonic heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero...
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Labours of Hercules (redirect from Twelve Labors of Heracles)
Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes...
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was founded on 3 May 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on 1 July 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the...
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Cerberus (section The Twelfth Labour of Heracles)
from his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, the last of Heracles' twelve labours. The etymology of Cerberus' name is uncertain...
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definitively whether Heracles was Alexander's son or not. Of the ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the...
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Look up Heracles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heracles is the Greek version of Hercules, a legendary figure from Greek mythology Herakles may also...
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Héracles Paiva Aguiar (born September 18, 1992), better known as Héracles, is a retired Brazilian footballer. He most recently played for Ypiranga as...
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grieves her children and Heracles's absence during his labours. The sons of Heracles appear to have been incorporated into Heracles hero cult at Thebes who...
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of Heracles belongs to Nintendo which also has copyright to the last game in the franchise. The series began in 1987 with Tōjin Makyō Den: Heracles no...
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Lernaean Hydra (section Second Labor of Heracles)
Eurystheus, the king of the Tiryns, sent Heracles (or Hercules) to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake...
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Heracleidae (redirect from House of Heracles)
origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles. In the historical period, several dynasties claimed descent from Heracles, such as the Agiads and Eurypontids...
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Atlas (mythology) (category Mythology of Heracles)
golden apples but to Heracles, another son of Zeus, and Perseus's great-grandson. One of the Twelve Labours of the hero Heracles was to fetch some of...
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Hesperides (section The Eleventh Labour of Heracles)
After Heracles completed his first ten Labours, Eurystheus gave him two more claiming that neither the Hydra counted (because Iolaus helped Heracles) nor...
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Hippolyta (section Ninth Labor of Heracles)
among them that Heracles and his crew were abducting their queen, so the Amazons attacked the ship. In the fray that followed, Heracles slew Hippolyta...
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Nemean lion (section First labour of Heracles)
Hera's request. The first of Heracles' twelve labours, set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to slay the Nemean lion. Heracles wandered the area until he...
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Melqart (redirect from Tyrian Heracles)
the same god was worshipped as the Thasian Heracles. So I went on to Thasos, where I found a temple of Heracles which had been built by the Phoenicians who...
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Heracles inexpectatus is a giant fossil parrot species from New Zealand, assigned to a monotypic genus Heracles, that lived during the early Miocene approximately...
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Euripides. In the year of 430 B.C., Children of Heracles was performed. It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae) as they seek protection...
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Hera (category Mythology of Heracles)
stepmother and enemy of Heracles. The name Heracles means "Glory of Hera". In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced...
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Greek mythology (section Heracles and the Heracleidae)
cultures, showing the story of Heracles as a local adaptation of hero myths already well established. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene...
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poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly...
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as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles' mother was descended from Perseus). Because of...
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Pillars of Hercules (redirect from Pillars of Heracles)
are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles". Since there has been a one-to-one association between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars...
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The Heracles of Antikythera (Greek: Ηρακλής των Αντικυθήρων) is a large ancient Greek marble sculpture of the Greek hero Heracles, found in the wreck...
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Mission Héraclès was a 2001 operation of the French Navy, in support of the War in Afghanistan against the Taliban. Its main tasks included the provision...
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Herakles (Euripides) (redirect from Heracles (Euripides))
Furens and sometimes written as Heracles) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BC. While Heracles is in the underworld obtaining...
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(/ˈhɜːrkjʊˌliːz/, US: /-kjə-/) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules...
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Alcmene (category Mythology of Heracles)
Alcmene from delivering Heracles. This resulted in the fulfillment of Zeus's oath in that it was Eurystheus rather than Heracles. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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Omphale (redirect from Heracles and Omphale)
Iardanus) set Heracles free and married him, Heracles fathered a son, Cleodaeus, on a slave-woman. This fits, though in Herodotus the son of Heracles and the...
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Geryon (section The Tenth Labour of Heracles)
admiration of his courage" gave Heracles the golden cup he used to sail across the sea from west to east each night. Heracles used it to reach Erytheia, a...
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