Hercules is a Roman hero and god. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, ...

Hera, wife of Zeus, arranged for two snakes to be sent to kill Hercules (Greek: Heracles) when he was still a small child. This was because Hercules was born to Alcmena by Zeus, and Hera was jealous.

Ruins of Temple of Hercules - ancient roman architecture. 4K low angle wide shot with sun flare King Antiochus of Commagene shaking hands with Heracles in Turkey Historic Arsameia ruins in Eastern ...

How was Alexander the Great supposedly descended from Heracles? Credit: Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. CC BY 1.0/flickr Alexander the Great was a remarkable figure in Greek history for many reasons. However, ...

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By a strange quirk of fate, the materials used in the construction of the dam are a product of a cement company named “Heracles”, so that it seems that the age-old contest between Acheloos and ...

The Spartans, one of ancient Greece’s most formidable city-states, believed they were direct descendants of Heracles, also known as Hercules in Roman mythology. Heracles was a demigod famed for his ...

For Heracles‘s tenth labor, King Eurystheus commanded the hero to journey to the edge of the known world and steal the sun-kissed cattle of the three-headed giant Geryon. The task that lay ...