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    widely known. Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic chthonic heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero...
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    Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes...
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  • was founded on 3 May 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on 1 July 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the...
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    from his body. Cerberus is primarily known for his capture by Heracles, the last of Heracles' twelve labours. The etymology of Cerberus' name is uncertain...
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    Heracles inexpectatus is a giant fossil parrot species from New Zealand, assigned to a monotypic genus Heracles, that lived during the early Miocene approximately...
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  • 2023, the HERACLES project has been superseded by the European Large Logistics Lander (EL3) project, and is no longer actual. The HERACLES architecture...
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  • definitively whether Heracles was Alexander's son or not. Of the ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the...
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    grieves her children and Heracles's absence during his labours. The sons of Heracles appear to have been incorporated into Heracles hero cult at Thebes who...
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  • Héracles Paiva Aguiar (born September 18, 1992), better known as Héracles, is a retired Brazilian footballer. He most recently played for Ypiranga as...
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  • Mission Héraclès, a 2001 French Navy mission to support the NATO-Afghanistan War Search for "heracles"  or "heracle" on Wikipedia. Heracles in popular...
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  • of Heracles belongs to Nintendo which also has copyright to the last game in the franchise. The series began in 1987 with Tōjin Makyō Den: Heracles no...
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    Eurystheus, the king of the Tiryns, sent Heracles (or Hercules) to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake...
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    origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles. In the historical period, several dynasties claimed descent from Heracles, such as the Agiads and Eurypontids...
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    Atlas (mythology) (category Mythology of Heracles)
    golden apples but to Heracles, another son of Zeus, and Perseus's great-grandson. One of the Twelve Labours of the hero Heracles was to fetch some of...
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    Hera's request. The first of Heracles' twelve labours, set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to slay the Nemean lion. Heracles wandered the area until he...
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    Melqart (redirect from Tyrian Heracles)
    the same god was worshipped as the Thasian Heracles. So I went on to Thasos, where I found a temple of Heracles which had been built by the Phoenicians who...
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    After Heracles completed his first ten Labours, Eurystheus gave him two more claiming that neither the Hydra counted (because Iolaus helped Heracles) nor...
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    Hera (category Mythology of Heracles)
    began. In the myth of the birth of Heracles, it is Hera herself who sits at the door, delaying the birth of Heracles until her protégé, Eurystheus, had...
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    cultures, showing the story of Heracles as a local adaptation of hero myths already well established. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene...
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    Omphale (redirect from Heracles and Omphale)
    Iardanus) set Heracles free and married him, Heracles fathered a son, Cleodaeus, on a slave-woman. This fits, though in Herodotus the son of Heracles and the...
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    by Euripides where the children of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles). The Children of Heracles was written by the youngest of the great...
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  • Greek: Ἀχλύς "mist"), in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification...
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    (/ˈhɜːrkjʊˌliːz/, US: /-kjə-/) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules...
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    are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles". Since there has been a one-to-one association between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars...
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    as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles' mother was descended from Perseus). Because of...
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    and fled. Agrius, repelled by Heracles in a fight. Amphion, tried to plunder Pholus of his wine and was killed by Heracles. Amycus, son of Ophion. He attended...
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  • Heracles Almelo Heracles Almelo v NEC Nijmegen Heracles Almelo v Excelsior Heracles Almelo v FC Utrecht FC Volendam v Heracles Almelo AZ v Heracles Almelo...
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  • Heracles General Cement Corporation (Greek: Ανώνυμος Γενική Εταιρία Τσιμέντων Ηρακλής) (Α.Γ.Ε.Τ ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ) is a Greece-based cement, concrete and aggregates...
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    Furens and sometimes written as Heracles) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BC. While Heracles is in the underworld obtaining...
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    poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly...
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