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    Heracles (redirect from Heraklês)
    Vajrapani, 2nd-century Gandhara. The Mathura Herakles, strangling the Nemean lion (Kolkata Indian Museum). Herakles under his lion skin and holding thunder...
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  • Look up Herakles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herakles is an alternate spelling of Heracles, the Greek version of Hercules, a legendary figure...
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    The Mathura Herakles is a famous statue found in the city of Mathura, India, thought to represent the Greek hero Herakles fighting the Nemean lion. The...
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  • Herakles (Heracles) is a 1962 short film and the first film by the German director Werner Herzog, then 19 years old. The film relates to six of the twelve...
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    Herakles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος, Hēraklēs Mainomenos, also known as Hercules Furens and sometimes written as Heracles) is an Athenian tragedy...
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    launched from the ship. Herakles radars in operation The French FREMM frigate Alsace exiting Port-Louis harbour. The Herakles antenna is the rotating...
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    Porus (redirect from Megasthenes' Herakles)
    Curtius Rufus mentions Porus' vanguard soldiers carrying a banner of "Herakles" during the face-off with Alexander. Accordingly, Ishwari Prasad and a...
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    include: LIMC Herakles 2553, 2591, 2621 (one head), 2579 (two heads). LIMC Herakles 2640, 2642, 2656, 2666, Smallwood, p. 93. LIMC Herakles 2604 (Smallwood...
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    Hercules, 2nd century AD, Roman copy, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The "Weary Herakles" is a heavily broken Roman marble statue that was excavated in 1980 in...
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    Heracles killed Megara and their children. According to Euripides's play Herakles, however, it was not until after Heracles had completed his labours and...
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    The pyre of Heracles (Greek: Ἡρακλέους Πυρά) are the ruins of a Doric temple from the 3rd century BCE on Mount Oeta, on the site where the ancient Greek...
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  • presence of Herakles Farms in Cameroon started in 2009. Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) is a Cameroonian subsidiary of Herakles Farms, has...
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    Children of Herakles David Kovacs, 1994, prose, Heracleidae: full text John Davie, 1996, Children of Heracles Kenneth McLeish, 1997, Herakles' Children...
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  • Goddess. Like Targī̆tavah, Sanerges was also assimilated with Hēraklēs. The reference to "Hēraklēs" stealing Gēryōn's cattle after defeating him in Herodotus...
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  • Hercules is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character is based...
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  • practices had made local converts to their secret cult. An Idaean dactyl named Herakles (perhaps the earliest embodiment of the later hero) originated the Olympic...
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  • recorded by Herodotus, Hēraklēs arrived in deserted Scythia with Gēryōn's cattle. Because of the extremely cold weather of Scythia, Hēraklēs covered himself...
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    Mission Héraclès was a 2001 operation of the French Navy, in support of the War in Afghanistan against the Taliban. Its main tasks included the provision...
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    The Pillars of Hercules are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar...
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    statue of Herakles (Hercules) Roman 117–188 CE from villa of the emperor Hadrian at Tivoli, Italy at the British Museum Hercules (Herakles) with the Apples...
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  • listed for Herakles on Alfons Håkans's website unlike with the rest of the tug fleet, making her purely a pusher vessel. In 1995 Herakles received new...
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    around Herakles arms and legs. The snakes heads are grasped in Herakles hands. A small wooden club is leaned against a small stone in front of Herakles. On...
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    The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is a species of rhinoceros beetle native to the rainforests of southern Mexico, Central America, South America...
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  • The mythological hero Hercules or Heracles appears in several comics. Hercules (DC Comics), a DC Comics character Hercules (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics...
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  • Hercules (also known as Heracles and Herakles) is a fictional Olympian god in the DC Universe based on the Greek demigod and hero of the same name. Hercules...
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    Herakles tenth labor Neck of Herakles' tenth labor amphora Geryon side of Herakles' tenth labor Neck of Geryon side of Herakles' tenth labor amphora The sounds...
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  • with Herakles is also attested by archaeological remains, such as the poplar-leaf motif carved on a statue base found in a small sanctuary to Herakles (Roman...
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  • Glory of Heracles (Japanese: ヘラクレスの栄光, Hepburn: Herakuresu no Eikō) is a Japanese role-playing video game series initially developed and published by Data...
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    (1975). "Two statues of Herakles". J. Paul Getty Museum Journal. 2: 17–26. Howard, Seymour (1978) [1966]. The Lansdowne Herakles. The J. Paul Getty Museum...
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    incorporated into the text," Richard Janko observes (Janko 1986:39). H. Shapiro, "Herakles and Kyknos", American Journal of Archaeology 88 (1984:523–39), notes over...
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