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Heracles

Also known as Alcaeus, Alcides, Hercules, Herakles

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Deity.type: Greek
Deity.name: Heracles
Deity.image: Herakles Farnese MAN Napoli Inv6001 n01.jpg
Deity.birth_place: Thebes, Boeotia, Greece
Deity.death_place: Mount Oeta, Phocis, Greece
Deity.caption: One of the most famous depictions of Heracles, Farnese Hercules, Roman marble statue on the basis of an original by Lysippos, 216 CE. National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
Deity.god_of: God of strength and heroesDivine protector of mankind and the patron of the gymnasium
Deity.abode: Mount Olympus
Deity.symbol: Club, lion skin
Deity.consort: Megara, Omphale, Deianira, Hebe
Deity.parents: Zeus and Alcmene
Deity.siblings: maternal: Iphicles, Laonome; paternal: Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Perseus and many others
Deity.children: Alexiares and Anicetus, Telephus, Hyllus, Tlepolemus
Deity.Roman_equivalent: Hercules
Deity.canaanite_equivalent: Melqart

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Commons category: Heracles
name in native language: Ἡρακλῆς
nickname: Ἰδαῖος
P8168: Tomoxia bucephala

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Contents

Origin
Hero or god
Cult
Character
Mythology
Birth and childhood
Youth
Labours of Heracles
Further adventures
Omphale
Hylas
Rescue of Prometheus
Heracles's constellation
Heracles's sack of Troy
Colony at Sardinia
Other adventures
Death
Godhood
Christian chronology
Lovers
Women
Marriages
Affairs
Men
Children
Consorts and children
Heracles around the world
Rome
Egypt
Other cultures
Uses of Heracles as a name
Genealogy
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
Primary sources
External links

thumb|right|Heracles carrying his son Hyllus looks at the centaur Nessus, who is about to carry [[Deianira across the river on his back. Antique fresco from Pompeii.]] Heracles ( ), born Alcaeus (, Alkaios) or Alcides (, 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.

He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans known as Heracleidae (), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.