Heracles

n. Hercules, hero of great strength and courage (Classical Mythology); tragedy by Euripides

For the Roman mythological analogue to Heracles, see Hercules. In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera", or Alcides (original name) " + , )" was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, stepson of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be 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 Maximianus, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.
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Noun
1. (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality
(synonym) Hercules, Herakles, Alcides
(hypernym) mythical being
(classification) classical mythology

n. Heracles, Hercules, hero of great strength and courage (Classical Mythology); tragedy by Euripides

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