Heracles
Also called Heracles Furens [fyoor-uhns]. /ˈfyʊər əns/. (italics) a tragedy (420? b.c.) by Euripides.
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Origin of Heracles
1Other words from Heracles
- Her·a·cle·an, adjective
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Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero | Regina Lizik | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMythic heroes, especially Heracles, wrestled monsters and wild beasts at the beginning of time.
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This Week’s Hot Reads: Jan. 28, 2013 | Mythili Rao, David Goodwillie | January 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne could have found men who were said to have fought alongside Heracles.
Hesiod, quite unlike his contemporaries, the "later" poets of Iliad and Odyssey, gives to Heracles an iron helmet and sword.
Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
The swallowing and disgorging of Heracles by the monster that was to slay Hesione is well known.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew LangThe euhemeristic explanation of the struggle with the triple monster was that Heracles fought three brothers in succession.
To carry off these cattle to Greece was one of the twelve “labours” imposed by Eurystheus upon Heracles.
Heracles is called , from his being identical with the Sun, and he has this name in common with Apollo and Jove.
Troy and its Remains | Henry (Heinrich) Schliemann
British Dictionary definitions for Heracles
Herakles
/ (ˈhɛrəˌkliːz) /
the usual name (in Greek) for Hercules 1
Derived forms of Heracles
- Heraclean or Heraklean, adjective
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