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Heracles

Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ ⓘ Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, lit. 'glory/fame of Hera'), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a descendant of Perseus, another son of Zeus.

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Abode
Mount Olympus
Born
Thebes, Boeotia, Greece
Canaanite
Melqart
Children
Alexiares and Anicetus, Telephus, Hyllus, Tlepolemus
Consort
Megara, Omphale, Deianira, Hebe
Died
Mount Oeta, Phocis, Greece

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related to Further reading · 131
Heracles → America, Ancient Greece, Ancient World, Andromache, Animals, Archaeology, Arethusa, Art, Athenian, Attica, Barlow, Berkeley, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, Brockliss, Burkert, Bär, California Press, Cambridge, Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge Univ
related to Other adventures · 85
Heracles → According, Admetus, Admetus's, After, Alastor, Alcestis, Alcestis's, Antaeus, Antaeus's, Antor, Arabia, Ares, Argonaut, Aristophanes's The Frogs, Athena, Augeias, Autolycus, Bebryces, Besbicus, By
related to Heracles's sack of Troy · 37
Heracles → Accordingly, After, Alciopus, Antagoras, Antimachia, Aphaea, Apollodorus's Bibliotheke, Before Homer's Trojan War, Eastern, Ganymede, Greek, Hesione, Iliad, Kos, Laceter, Laomedon, Laomedon's, Latin, Meropes, Oicles
related to References · 29
Heracles → Aston, Based, Burkert, Daniel Ogden, Emma, Greek Mythology, Greek Religion, Greeks, Handbook, Hard, Harvard University Press, Hudson, ISBN, Karl, Kerenyi, Labor III, London, New York, New York/London, Oxford University Press
related to Character · 27
Heracles → Amphitryon, Antaeus, Atlas, Augeas, By, Deianeira, Elis, Euripides, Heracles's, Hercules Furens, Hermes, His, In, It, Laomedon, Neleus, Prince Admetus, Seneca, Sophocles's, Sparta
related to Cult · 27
Heracles → According, August, Bahariya Oasis, BCE, Egyptian Temple, Greek, Greeks, Heraclea, Heracleia, Herculaneum, Herodotus, Italy, July, Lemnos, Malta, Metageitnion, Neai, Olympus, Peisistratos, Ptolemy's
related to Children · 26
Heracles → All, Anicetus, Apollodorus, Archelaus, Chersibius, Creontiades, Deianeira, Deicoon, Eurystheus, Heracleidae, Heracles's, Hyginus, Hyllus, Mecistophonus, Megara, Melite, Menebrontes, One, Ophitus, Patrocles
related to Death · 26
Heracles → Acheloos, Achelous, Angry, As, Before, Deianira, Having, Heracles's, However, Hydra's, Lernaean Hydra, Lichas, Mount Oeta, Nessus, Nessus's, Olympus, Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX, Philoctetes, Poeas, Several
related to Birth and childhood · 24
Heracles → Alcmene, Alcmene's, Amphitryon, Eurystheus, Galanthis, Helios, Hera, Heracles's, High King, His, House, Ilithyia, Iolaus, Iphicles, Meanwhile, On, Once, Perseus, She, Thus
related to Christian chronology · 23
Heracles → Apollodorus, Argos, Asclepius, BCE, Castor, Chronicon, Clement, Clement's, Euhemerist, Eurystheus, Gospel, Heracles's, In Christian, Jerome's, Linus, Linus's, Mycenae, Pollux, Preparation, Readers

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heracles's greek god hero one killed hera zeus king later also ancient son sons deianira eurystheus would according death troy

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HeraclesAbodeMount Olympus1.00infobox
HeraclesBornThebes, Boeotia, Greece1.00infobox
HeraclesCanaaniteMelqart1.00infobox
HeraclesChildrenAlexiares and Anicetus, Telephus, Hyllus, Tlepolemus1.00infobox
HeraclesConsortMegara, Omphale, Deianira, Hebe1.00infobox
HeraclesDiedMount Oeta, Phocis, Greece1.00infobox
HeraclesParentsZeus and Alcmene1.00infobox
HeraclesRomanHercules1.00infobox
HeraclesSiblingsmaternal: Iphicles, Laonome; paternal: Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Perseus and many others1.00infobox
HeraclesSymbolClub, lion skin1.00infobox
Heraclesis ahatred that the goddess Hera0.90text
Heraclesis aTheban Iolaus0.90text

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