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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 (/ ˈ h ɛr ə k l iː z / HERR-ə-kleez; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, lit.
Baby Hercules strangling a snake sent to kill him in his cradle (Roman marble, 2nd century CE, in the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy). The Latin name Hercules was borrowed through Etruscan, where it is represented variously as Heracle, Hercle, and other forms. Hercules was a favorite subject for Etruscan art, and appears often on bronze mirrors.
Hercules and Omphale (Rubens) Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiuolo) Hercules and the Hydra (Zurbarán) Hercules and the lion of Nemea (Louvre Museum, L 31 MN B909) Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (Zurbarán) Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides; Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds; Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla; Hercules ...
In the play Children of Heracles by Euripides, Macaria, [a] along with her siblings, Alcmene and Iolaus flees from King Eurystheus, who is determined the kill all the children of Heracles, to Athens where they find shelter in the court of King Demophon, who refused to hand them over when Eurystheus gave him an ultimatum of war upon Athens unless he surrendered the Heraclidae. [3]
The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi [1] Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in the service of King Eurystheus. The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative.
Hera's wrath against Zeus's son continued and while Heracles was still an infant, Hera sent two serpents to kill him as he lay in his cot. Heracles throttled the snakes with his bare hands and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were a child's toys. [141] The Origin of the Milky Way by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1575
The Heracleia (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλεια ἐν Κυνοσάργει Herakleia en Kynosargei) were ancient festivals honoring the divine hero Heracles.. The ancient Athenians celebrated the festival, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion (which would fall in late July or early August), at the Cynosarges gymnasium at the demos Diomeia ...
Iole with Heracles in the house of Eurytus, as depicted on the seventh-century Eurytos column-crater, Louvre. Iole's name is given in its Corinthian (Doric) form Ϝιόλᾱ ("Viola"), with digamma and a local Σ-shaped form for iota. It is located under the name of Heracles in the right upper corner of the image.