Heracles
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Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- Heracles
- Deity.image
- Herakles Farnese MAN Napoli Inv6001 n01.jpg
- Deity.birth_place
- Thebes, Boeotia, Greece
- Deity.death_place
- Mount Oeta, Phocis, Greece
- Deity.caption
- One of the most famous depictions of Heracles, Farnese Hercules, Roman marble statue on the basis of an original by Lysippos, 216 CE. National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
- Deity.god_of
- God of strength and heroesDivine protector of mankind and the patron of the gymnasium
- Deity.abode
- Mount Olympus
- Deity.symbol
- Club, lion skin
- Deity.consort
- Megara, Omphale, Deianira, Hebe
- Deity.parents
- Zeus and Alcmene
- Deity.siblings
- maternal: Iphicles, Laonome; paternal: Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Perseus and many others
Article
38 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Hero or god
- Cult
- Character
- Mythology
- Birth and childhood
- Youth<!--Linked from 'The Choice of Hercules'-->
- Labours of Heracles
- Further adventures
- Omphale
- Hylas
- Rescue of Prometheus
- Heracles's constellation
- Heracles's sack of Troy
- Colony at Sardinia
- Other adventures
- Death
- Godhood
- Christian chronology
- Lovers
- Women
- Marriages
- Affairs
- Men
- Children
- Consorts and children
- Heracles around the world
- Rome
- Egypt
- Other cultures
- Uses of Heracles as a name
- Genealogy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Primary sources
- External links
thumb|right|Heracles carrying his son Hyllus looks at the centaur Nessus, who is about to carry [[Deianira across the river on his back. Antique fresco from Pompeii.]] Heracles ( ), born Alcaeus (, Alkaios) or Alcides (, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a descendant of Perseus, another son of Zeus.
He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans known as 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 Maximian, often identified themselves. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.