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Heracles

Beings

The Greek labors-hero of Nemean lion through Cerberus. Not Hercules as the Latin name alone, and not club-of-heracles as gear alone.

Also known as Herakles

Hellenic religion

  • Heracles appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus gives Heracles a double logos — Greek hero-god and a much older Egyptian Heracles — without minting Melqart or merging the tellings here. A named heracles in that traveler’s speech, not Hercules as a Roman name flatten alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Heracles appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 8 seats Hercules in Evander’s rite and Cacus tale at the Ara Maxima etiology. Named Heracles/Hercules cult-hero in that Roman foundation speech, not the constellation hercules id and not twelve-labors alone.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

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