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    The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Latin: Herculis Invicti Ara Maxima) stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome. It was the...
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    venerating Hercules for dispatching the giant Cacus. Virgil's listeners would have related this scene to the same Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum...
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  • of Hercules or Temple of Heracles may refer to: Temple of Hercules Victor, or Temple of Hercules Olivarius, in the Forum Boarium in Rome Great Altar of...
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    representations of Hercules in the later tradition. In Roman mythology, although Hercules was seen as the champion of the weak and a great protector, his...
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  • Ahenobarbus Altar of Victory Great Altar of Hercules Basilica Aemilia Basilica Argentaria Basilica Fulvia Basilica Hilariana Basilica Julia Basilica of Junius...
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    Capitoline Triad Juno Jupiter Minerva Heroes Hercules in ancient Rome Great Altar of Hercules Temple of Hercules Victor Roma (deity) Collegium Pontificum...
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    Regio XI Circus Maximus (category Topography of the ancient city of Rome)
    Forum Boarium stood the Great Altar of Hercules, the Temple of Portunus, and the Temple of Hercules Victor. At the turn of the 5th century, the Regio contained...
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    Temple of Hercules Gaditanus, Temple of Melqart or Temple of Hercules-Melqart was a place of worship in Antiquity in the southern outskirts of Gadir-Gades...
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  • Anicius Faustus (category Urban prefects of Rome)
    grandson of Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus. He was the patron of the town of Uzappa. If he is identified as the Faustus mentioned on the Great Altar of Hercules...
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    The altar of Jupiter Praestes at Tibur was also alleged to have been established by Hercules himself. Hercules Augustus or Hercules Augusti, Hercules "in...
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    Santa Maria in Cosmedin (category Churches of Rome (rione Ripa))
    east end of the church, possibly the podium of the Great Altar to Hercules. It took the form of a miniature basilica with a small apse and altar and a nave...
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    Forum Boarium (category Fora venalia of Rome)
    Hercules was honoured as a god by the ancient dwellers of the Palatine hill, who are said to have dedicated an altar to him. The tufa stone core of this...
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    Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi, Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the...
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    added to the site during this period. The Great Temple of Amman (also inaccurately known as the Temple of Hercules) The Byzantine church The Umayyad Palace...
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    Irminsul (category History of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    their god of Victory they give the name of Mars, and the bodily characteristics of Hercules, imitating his physical proportion by means of wooden columns...
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  • Hercules Panhellenios is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character...
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    Auchendavy (category Forts of the Antonine Wall)
    2017. "RIB 2177. Altar dedicated to Mars, Minerva, the Goddesses of the Parade-ground, Hercules, Epona, and Victory". Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Retrieved...
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    Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified...
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    Erasmus was Bishop of Formia, Italy. During the persecution against Christians under the emperors Diocletian (284–305) and Maximian Hercules (286–305), he...
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  • began to quickly assemble an altar out of nearby stones in honor of Hercules. Hercules was so pleased, after the sack of Troy he gave Telamon Hesione...
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    Tabitha, the altar of St. Petronilla, the altar of the Archangel Michael, the altar of the Navicella, the right transept with altars of Saint Erasmus...
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    all the way to the Pillars of Hercules, to be used for an invasion of Carthage and the western Mediterranean; Erection of great temples in Delos, Delphi...
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    Philoctetes (category Male lovers of Heracles)
    there in the temple of Apollo Halius the bow and arrows of Hercules, which had, however, been removed by the Crotoniats to the temple of Apollo in their own...
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    Stefano Maderno (category Year of birth uncertain)
    the high altar at Santa Maria della Pace. Of the few sculptures outside of Italy, Cincinnati has a small bronze (c. 1622–25) portraying Hercules and Antaeus...
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    Volker, "The Architecture of the Great Altar and the Telephos Frieze" in Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, Volume 2, Renée Dreyfus and...
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    Karlskirche (category Roman Catholic church buildings in the Vicariate of Vienna City)
    and Jachim, that stood in front of the Temple at Jerusalem. They also recall the Pillars of Hercules and act as symbols of imperial power. The entrance is...
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  • fort are altars with inscriptions to Hercules by Legio VI Victrix (normally stationed at Eboracum [York]) and to Apollo by the 2nd Cohort of Nervians...
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    Geryon (redirect from Cattle of Geryon)
    Geryon and Hercules' conquest of Geryon is mentioned in Book VIII. The Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano features a three-headed representation of Geryon....
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    Antonio del Pollaiuolo (category 15th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
    examples and often centred on a heroic Hercules. He, or possibly his brother, was also an innovative painter of wide landscape backgrounds, perhaps having...
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    masterpieces of the High Roman Baroque. The sculpture over the altar shows Saint Teresa of Ávila, a Spanish Carmelite nun (1515–1582), swooning in a state of religious...
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