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id="toc-Labours_of_Heracles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Labours_of_Heracles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Labours of Heracles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Labours_of_Heracles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_adventures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_adventures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Further adventures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_adventures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Omphale" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Omphale"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Omphale</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Omphale-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hylas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hylas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Hylas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hylas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rescue_of_Prometheus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rescue_of_Prometheus"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Rescue of Prometheus</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rescue_of_Prometheus-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Heracles's_constellation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Heracles's_constellation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>Heracles's constellation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Heracles's_constellation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Heracles's_sack_of_Troy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Heracles's_sack_of_Troy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>Heracles's sack of Troy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Heracles's_sack_of_Troy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Colony_at_Sardinia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Colony_at_Sardinia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>Colony at Sardinia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Colony_at_Sardinia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_adventures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_adventures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.11</span> <span>Other adventures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_adventures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Death" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Death"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.12</span> <span>Death</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Death-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Godhood" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Godhood"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.13</span> <span>Godhood</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Godhood-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Christian_chronology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Christian_chronology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.14</span> <span>Christian chronology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Christian_chronology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lovers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lovers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Lovers</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Lovers-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Lovers subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Lovers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Women" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Women"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Women</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Women-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Marriages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marriages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Marriages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marriages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Affairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a 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title="Herakles – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%84%E1%88%AB%E1%8A%AD%E1%88%8C%E1%88%B5" title="ሄራክሌስ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ሄራክሌስ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%84_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9)" title="هرقل (أسطورة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="هرقل (أسطورة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakl" title="Herakl – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Herakl" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Гэракл – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Гэракл" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB" title="Херакъл – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Херакъл" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklo" title="Heraklo – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Heraklo" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A8racles" title="Hèracles – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Hèracles" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9rakl%C3%A9s" title="Héraklés – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Héraklés" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82" title="Ηρακλής – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ηρακλής" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklo" title="Heraklo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Heraklo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B3" title="هراکلس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هراکلس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s" title="Héraclès – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Héraclès" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearakles" title="Hearakles – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Hearakles" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earcail" title="Earcail – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Earcail" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%A4%EB%9D%BC%ED%81%B4%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4" title="헤라클레스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="헤라클레스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%BD" title="Հերակլես – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հերակլես" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC" title="हेराक्लीज़ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="हेराक्लीज़" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklo" title="Heraklo – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Heraklo" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eracle" title="Eracle – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Eracle" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A1" title="הרקולס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הרקולס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94" title="ჰერაკლე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჰერაკლე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%AArakl%C3%AAs" title="Hêraklês – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Hêraklês" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Hercules" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93rakls" title="Hērakls – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Hērakls" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklis" title="Heraklis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Heraklis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9rakl%C3%A9sz" title="Héraklész – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Héraklész" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5" title="Херакле – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Херакле" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s" title="Héraclès – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Héraclès" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ഹെരാക്ലീസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഹെരാക്ലീസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94" title="ჰერაკლე – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ჰერაკლე" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Hercules" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%8D%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%A6%EA%AF%80%EA%AF%9C%EA%AF%81" title="ꯍꯤꯔꯦꯀꯜꯁ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯍꯤꯔꯦꯀꯜꯁ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9F%E1%80%B2%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%81%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%87%E1%80%BA" title="ဟဲရာခလီးဇ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဟဲရာခလီးဇ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles_(mythologie)" title="Herakles (mythologie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Herakles (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9" title="ヘーラクレース – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヘーラクレース" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A8rtchule" title="Hèrtchule – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Hèrtchule" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eracles" title="Eracles – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Eracles" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerakl" title="Gerakl – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Gerakl" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89racle" title="Éracle – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Éracle" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9racles" title="Héracles – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Héracles" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracle" title="Heracle – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Heracle" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB" title="Геракл – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Геракл" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Heracles" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakliu" title="Herakliu – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Herakliu" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles_(mytol%C3%B3gia)" title="Herakles (mytológia) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Herakles (mytológia)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklej" title="Heraklej – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Heraklej" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5" title="Херакле – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Херакле" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklo" title="Heraklo – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Heraklo" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Herakles" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles" title="Herakles – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Herakles" 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Greece)">gymnasium</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg/220px-Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="385" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg/330px-Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg/440px-Herakles_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6001_n01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2300" data-file-height="4025" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">One of the most famous depictions of Heracles, <i><a href="/wiki/Farnese_Hercules" title="Farnese Hercules">Farnese Hercules</a></i>, Roman marble 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg/80px-Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg/120px-Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg/160px-Greek_Roman_Laurel_wreath_with_branches_vector.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="447" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#cef2e0 ;;background:#cef2e0 ;padding-top:0.15em;padding-left:0.25em; text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Origins</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:center;padding-top:0;background:white; border: 2px solid white; background-color:Azure"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Ancient Greek religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" title="Mycenaean Greece">Mycenaean Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_religion" title="Mycenaean religion">Mycenaean religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Mycenaean deities">Mycenaean deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoan_Civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Minoan Civilization">Minoan Civilization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minoan_religion" title="Minoan religion">Minoan religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Greece" title="Classical Greece">Classical Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_Greece" title="Hellenistic Greece">Hellenistic Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">Hellenistic religion</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#cef2e0 ;;background:#cef2e0 ;padding-top:0.15em;padding-left:0.25em; text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Sacred places</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:center;padding-top:0;background:white; border: 2px solid white; background-color:Azure"><div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Sacred islands</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ithaca_(island)" title="Ithaca (island)">Ithaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naxos" title="Naxos">Naxos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kythira" title="Kythira">Kythira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samothrace" title="Samothrace">Samothrace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lemnos" title="Lemnos">Lemnos</a></li></ul> <div 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Pieria">Dion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodona" title="Dodona">Dodona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Greece" title="Olympia, Greece">Olympia</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Other</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Zeus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cave of Zeus">Cave of Zeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#cef2e0 ;;background:#cef2e0 ;padding-top:0.15em;padding-left:0.25em; text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Greek_deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek deities">Deities</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:center;padding-top:0;background:white; border: 2px solid white; background-color:Azure"><table class="sidebar-subgroup" style="background:transparent"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#e6ffff;color:black;"> <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Olympians</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0.15em 1.25em 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hestia" title="Hestia">Hestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#e6ffff;color:black;"> <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">Chthonic deities</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0.15em 1.25em 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes">Erinyes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iacchus" title="Iacchus">Iacchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melino%C3%AB" title="Melinoë">Melinoë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triptolemus" title="Triptolemus">Triptolemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trophonius" title="Trophonius">Trophonius</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#e6ffff;color:black;"> Lesser deities</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0.15em 1.25em 0.6em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_(deity)" title="Alpheus (deity)">Alpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boreas_(god)" title="Boreas (god)">Boreas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deimos_(deity)" title="Deimos (deity)">Deimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyo" title="Enyo">Enyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos" title="Eos">Eos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)">Iris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leto" title="Leto">Leto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maia" title="Maia">Maia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metis_(mythology)" title="Metis (mythology)">Metis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemesis" title="Nemesis">Nemesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" title="Nike (mythology)">Nike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyx" title="Nyx">Nyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_(god)" title="Pan (god)">Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)" title="Phobos (mythology)">Phobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priapus" title="Priapus">Priapus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(mythology)" title="Rhea (mythology)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scamander" title="Scamander">Scamander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selene" title="Selene">Selene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanatos" title="Thanatos">Thanatos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(mythology)" title="Triton (mythology)">Triton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephyrus" title="Zephyrus">Zephyrus</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#cef2e0 ;;background:#cef2e0 ;padding-top:0.15em;padding-left:0.25em; text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Concepts</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:center;padding-top:0;background:white; border: 2px solid white; background-color:Azure"><div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Worldview</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphic_Egg" class="mw-redirect" title="Orphic Egg">Orphic Egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld" title="Greek underworld">Underworld and afterlife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miasma_(Ancient_Greek_religion)" title="Miasma (Ancient Greek religion)">Miasma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daimon" title="Daimon">Daimon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ages_of_Man" title="Ages of Man">Ages of Man</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Age" title="Golden Age">Golden Age</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_Heroic_Age" title="Greek Heroic Age">Heroic Age</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Divine and reality</b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apeiron" title="Apeiron">Apeiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">Monism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">Pantheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Form_of_the_Good" title="Form of the Good">Form of the Good</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theory_of_forms" title="Theory of forms">Theory of forms</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Mind</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anamnesis_(philosophy)" title="Anamnesis (philosophy)">Anamnesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ataraxia" title="Ataraxia">Ataraxia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apatheia" title="Apatheia">Apatheia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Episteme" title="Episteme">Episteme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epoche" class="mw-redirect" title="Epoche">Epoche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudaimonia" title="Eudaimonia">Eudaimonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katalepsis" title="Katalepsis">Katalepsis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logos" title="Logos">Logos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nous" title="Nous">Nous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phronesis" title="Phronesis">Phronesis</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Soul</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anima_mundi" title="Anima mundi">Anima mundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metempsychosis" title="Metempsychosis">Metempsychosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henosis" title="Henosis">Henosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plato%27s_theory_of_soul" title="Plato's theory of soul">Plato's theory of soul</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Ethics</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agape" title="Agape">Agape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arete" title="Arete">Arete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asebeia" title="Asebeia">Asebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebeia" title="Eusebeia">Eusebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubris" title="Hubris">Hubris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)" title="Xenia (Greek)">Xenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Rule#Ancient_Greece" title="Golden Rule">Ethic of Reciprocity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphic_maxims" title="Delphic maxims">Delphic maxims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adiaphora" title="Adiaphora">Adiaphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathekon" title="Kathekon">Kathekon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oikeiosis" class="mw-redirect" title="Oikeiosis">Oikeiosis</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Mysteries</a></b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphism" title="Orphism">Orphism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries" title="Dionysian Mysteries">Dionysian Mysteries</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#cef2e0 ;;background:#cef2e0 ;padding-top:0.15em;padding-left:0.25em; text-align:left;;color: var(--color-base)">Practices</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="text-align:center;padding-top:0;background:white; border: 2px solid white; background-color:Azure"><div style="font-size: 100%; background-color:#dbf1f1; border-top:0px dashed"><b>Worship</b></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cult_image" title="Cult image">Agalma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dithyramb" title="Dithyramb">Dithyramb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paean" title="Paean">Paean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgion" class="mw-redirect" title="Orgion">Orgion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiera_Orgas" title="Hiera Orgas">Hiera Orgas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero Cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Sacrifices and offerings</b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)" title="Holocaust (sacrifice)">Holokaustos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libation#Ancient_Greece" title="Libation">Libation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Votive_offering" title="Votive offering">Votive offering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice#Ancient_Greece" title="Animal sacrifice">Animal Sacrifice</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Temples and holy sites</b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek temple">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temenos" title="Temenos">Temenos</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Meditation and charity</b></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eusebeia" title="Eusebeia">Eusebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euergetism" title="Euergetism">Euergetism</a></li></ul> <div style="font-size: 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Antique fresco from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Heracles</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/ɛr/: 'err' in 'merry'">ɛr</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">HERR</span>-ə-kleez</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Ἡρακλῆς</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'glory/fame of <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>'), born <b>Alcaeus</b><sup id="cite_ref-DGRBM2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DGRBM2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἀλκαῖος</span></span>, <i>Alkaios</i>) or <b>Alcides</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἀλκείδης</span></span>, <i>Alkeidēs</i>), was a <a href="/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity">divine</a> <a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">hero</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a><sup id="cite_ref-1.9.16_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1.9.16-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a>, and the foster son of <a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Alcides_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alcides-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a descendant and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a>. </p><p>He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἡρακλεῖδαι</span></span>), and a champion of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Olympian order</a> against <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">chthonic</a> monsters. In <a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Rome</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Modernity" title="Modernity">modern</a> <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">West</a>, he is known as <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a>, with whom the later <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperors</a>, in particular <a href="/wiki/Commodus" title="Commodus">Commodus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maximian" title="Maximian">Maximian</a>, often identified themselves. Details of his <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cult (religion)">cult</a> were adapted to Rome as well. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div> <p>Many popular stories were told of his life, the most famous being the twelve <a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" title="Labours of Hercules">Labours of Hercules</a>; <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandrian</a> poets of the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic age">Hellenistic age</a> drew his mythology into a high poetic and tragic atmosphere.<sup id="cite_ref-Burkert_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burkert-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His figure, which initially drew on Near Eastern motifs such as the lion-fight, was widely known. </p><p>Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">chthonic</a> heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero and god, as <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a> says <i>heros theos</i>; at the same festival sacrifice was made to him, first as a hero, with a chthonic <a href="/wiki/Libation" title="Libation">libation</a>, and then as a god, upon an altar: thus he embodies the closest Greek approach to a "<a href="/wiki/Demi-god" class="mw-redirect" title="Demi-god">demi-god</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Burkert_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burkert-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The core of the story of Heracles has been identified by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Burkert" title="Walter Burkert">Walter Burkert</a> as originating in Neolithic hunter culture and traditions of <a href="/wiki/Shaman" class="mw-redirect" title="Shaman">shamanistic</a> crossings into the netherworld.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is possible that the myths surrounding Heracles were based on the life of a real person or several people whose accomplishments became exaggerated with time.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hero_or_god">Hero or god</h3></div> <p>Heracles's role as a culture hero, whose death could be a subject of mythic telling (see below), was accepted into the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Olympian Pantheon</a> during Classical times. This created an awkwardness in the encounter with <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> in the episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> XI, called the <a href="/wiki/Nekuia" class="mw-redirect" title="Nekuia">Nekuia</a>, where Odysseus encounters Heracles in <a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>And next I caught a glimpse of powerful Heracles—<br /> His ghost I mean: the man himself delights<br /> in the grand feasts of the deathless gods on high ...<br /> Around him cries of the dead rang out like cries of birds<br /> scattering left and right in horror as on he came like night ...<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Ancient critics were aware of the problem of the aside that interrupts the vivid and complete description, in which Heracles recognizes Odysseus and hails him, and some modern critics deny that the verse's beginning, in Fagles's translation <i>His ghost I mean ...</i>, was part of the original composition: "once people knew of Heracles' admission to Olympus, they would not tolerate his presence in the underworld", remarks <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Solmsen" title="Friedrich Solmsen">Friedrich Solmsen</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> noting that the interpolated verses represent a compromise between conflicting representations of Heracles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cult">Cult</h2></div> <p>The ancient Greeks celebrated the festival of the <i><a href="/wiki/Heracleia_(festival)" title="Heracleia (festival)">Heracleia</a></i>, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of <a href="/wiki/Metageitnion" class="mw-redirect" title="Metageitnion">Metageitnion</a> (which would fall in late July or early August). What is believed to be an <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> Temple of Heracles in the <a href="/wiki/Bahariya_Oasis" title="Bahariya Oasis">Bahariya Oasis</a> dates to 21 BCE. A reassessment of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a>'s descriptions of the island of <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> attempted to link the site at <a href="/wiki/Ras_ir-Ra%C4%A7eb" title="Ras ir-Raħeb">Ras ir-Raħeb</a> with a temple to Heracles,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the arguments are not conclusive.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several ancient cities were named <a href="/wiki/Heraclea_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Heraclea (disambiguation)">Heraclea</a> in his honor. A very small island close to the island of <a href="/wiki/Lemnos" title="Lemnos">Lemnos</a> was called Neai (Νέαι), from νέω, which means "I dive/swim", because Heracles swam there.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the Greek legends, the <a href="/wiki/Herculaneum" title="Herculaneum">Herculaneum</a> in Italy was founded by him.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several <i>poleis</i> provided two separate sanctuaries for Heracles, one recognizing him as a god, the other only as a hero.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sacrifice was made to him as a hero and as a god within the same festival.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This ambiguity helped create the Heracles cult especially when historians (e.g. Herodotus) and artists encouraged worship such as the painters during the time of the <a href="/wiki/Peisistratos" class="mw-redirect" title="Peisistratos">Peisistratos</a>, who often presented Heracles entering Olympus in their works.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some sources explained that the cult of Heracles persisted because of the hero's ascent to heaven and his suffering, which became the basis for festivals, ritual, rites, and the organization of mysteries.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is the observation, for example, that sufferings (<i>pathea</i>) gave rise to the rituals of grief and mourning, which came before the joy in the mysteries in the sequence of cult rituals.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, like the case of Apollo, the cult of Heracles had been sustained through the years by absorbing local cult figures such as those who share the same nature.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also constantly invoked as a patron for men, especially the young ones. For example, he was considered the ideal in warfare so he presided over gymnasiums and the <i>ephebes</i> or those men undergoing military training.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were ancient towns and cities that also adopted Heracles as a patron deity, contributing to the spread of his cult. There was the case of the royal house of Macedonia, which claimed lineal descent from the hero,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> primarily for purposes of divine protection and legitimator of actions. </p><p>The earliest evidence that shows the worship of Heracles in popular cult was in 6th century BCE (121–122 and 160–165) via an ancient inscription from Phaleron.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the 4th century BCE, Heracles became identified with the Phoenician God <a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Oitaeans" class="mw-redirect" title="Oitaeans">Oitaeans</a> worshiped Heracles and called him Cornopion (Κορνοπίων) because he helped them get rid of <a href="/wiki/Locust" title="Locust">locusts</a> (which they called <i>cornopes</i>), while the citizens of <a href="/wiki/Erythrae" title="Erythrae">Erythrae</a> at <a href="/wiki/Karaburun" title="Karaburun">Mima</a> called him Ipoctonus (ἰποκτόνος) because he destroyed the vine-eating <i>ips</i> (ἀμπελοφάγων ἰπῶν), a kind of <a href="/wiki/Cynips" title="Cynips">cynips</a> wasp, there.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Near the town of <a href="/wiki/Bura_(Achaea)" title="Bura (Achaea)">Bura</a> in <a href="/wiki/Achaea" title="Achaea">Achaea</a>, there was a statue of Heracles on the River <a href="/wiki/Buraicus" class="mw-redirect" title="Buraicus">Buraicus</a> and an oracle in a cave. People who consulted this oracle first prayed before the statue, then threw four dice from a mound that was always kept ready onto a table. These dice were marked with certain characters, the significance of which was elucidated by an artwork shown in the cave. Because of this town Heracles had the epithet Buraicus (Βουραϊκός).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Character">Character</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg/220px-Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg/330px-Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg/440px-Eurytios_Krater_Louvre_E635_n1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3800" data-file-height="2533" /></a><figcaption>Greek mythology influenced the <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_Civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Etruscan Civilization">Etruscans</a>. This vase at <a href="/wiki/Caere" title="Caere">Caere</a> shows <a href="/wiki/King_Eurytus_of_Oechalia" class="mw-redirect" title="King Eurytus of Oechalia">King Eurytus of Oechalia</a> and Heracles in a symposium. Krater of corinthian columns called 'Krater of Eurytion', <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 600 BCE</span></figcaption></figure> <p>Extraordinary strength, <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>, ingenuity, and sexual prowess with both males and females were among the characteristics commonly attributed to him. Heracles used his wits on several occasions when his strength did not suffice, such as when laboring for the king <a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augeas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Elis" title="Ancient Elis">Elis</a>, wrestling the giant <a href="/wiki/Antaeus" title="Antaeus">Antaeus</a>, or tricking <a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a> into taking the sky back onto his shoulders. Together with <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> he was the patron and protector of <a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)" title="Gymnasium (ancient Greece)">gymnasia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palaestra" title="Palaestra">palaestrae</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His iconographic attributes are the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nemean Lion">lion skin</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Club_(weapon)" title="Club (weapon)">club</a>. These qualities did not prevent him from being regarded as a playful figure who used games to relax from his labors and played a great deal with children.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By conquering dangerous archaic forces he is said to have "made the world safe for mankind" and to be its benefactor.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heracles was an extremely passionate and emotional individual, capable of doing both great deeds for his friends (such as wrestling with <a href="/wiki/Thanatos" title="Thanatos">Thanatos</a> on behalf of Prince <a href="/wiki/Admetus" class="mw-redirect" title="Admetus">Admetus</a>, who had regaled Heracles with his hospitality, or restoring his friend <a href="/wiki/Tyndareus" title="Tyndareus">Tyndareus</a> to the throne of <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a> after he was overthrown) and being a terrible enemy who would wreak horrible vengeance on those who crossed him, as Augeas, <a href="/wiki/Neleus" title="Neleus">Neleus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Laomedon" title="Laomedon">Laomedon</a> all found out to their cost. There was also a coldness to his character, which was demonstrated by Sophocles's depiction of the hero in <i><a href="/wiki/Women_of_Trachis" title="Women of Trachis">The Trachiniae</a></i>. Heracles threatened his marriage with his desire to bring two women under the same roof; one of them was his wife <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianeira</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the works of <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a> involving Heracles, his actions were partly driven by forces outside rational human control. By highlighting the divine causation of his madness, Euripides problematized Heracles's character and status within the civilized context.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This aspect is also highlighted in <i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Seneca)" title="Hercules (Seneca)">Hercules Furens</a></i> where <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca</a> linked the hero's madness to an illusion and a consequence of Heracles's refusal to live a simple life, as offered by <a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a>. It was indicated that he preferred the extravagant violence of the heroic life and that its ghosts eventually manifested in his madness and that the hallucinatory visions defined Heracles's character.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Birth_and_childhood">Birth and childhood</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg/220px-Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg/330px-Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg/440px-Herakles_strangling_snakes_Louvre_G192.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="2200" /></a><figcaption>Heracles strangling <a href="/wiki/Snake" title="Snake">snakes</a> (detail from an Attic red-figured stamnos, c. 480–470 BCE)</figcaption></figure> <p>A major factor in the well-known tragedies surrounding Heracles is the hatred that the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>, had for him. Heracles was the son of the affair Zeus had with the mortal woman <a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a>. When Zeus desired Alcmene, he decided to make one night last three by ordering <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a>, the god of the sun, not to rise for three days, so he would have more time with Alcmene.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zeus made love to her after disguising himself as her husband, <a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a>, home early from war (Amphitryon did return later the same night, and Alcmene became pregnant with his son at the same time, a case of heteropaternal <a href="/wiki/Superfecundation" title="Superfecundation">superfecundation</a>, where a woman carries twins sired by different fathers).<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, Heracles's very existence proved at least one of Zeus's many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus's mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities. His twin mortal brother, son of Amphitryon, was <a href="/wiki/Iphicles" title="Iphicles">Iphicles</a>, father of Heracles's charioteer <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2684" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way" title="The Origin of the Milky Way">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacopo_Tintoretto" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacopo Tintoretto">Jacopo Tintoretto</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On the night Heracles and Iphicles were to be born, Hera, knowing of her husband Zeus's adultery, persuaded Zeus to swear an oath that the child born that night to a member of the House of <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a> would become High King. Hera did this knowing that while Heracles was to be born a descendant of Perseus, so too was <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a>. Once the oath was sworn, Hera hurried to Alcmene's dwelling and slowed the birth of Heracles and Iphicles by forcing <a href="/wiki/Ilithyia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilithyia">Ilithyia</a>, goddess of childbirth, to sit cross-legged with her clothing tied in knots, thereby causing the twins to be trapped in the womb. Meanwhile, Hera caused Eurystheus to be born prematurely, making him High King in place of Heracles. She would have permanently delayed Heracles's birth had she not been fooled by <a href="/wiki/Galanthis" title="Galanthis">Galanthis</a>, Alcmene's servant, who lied to Ilithyia, saying that <a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a> had already delivered the baby. Upon hearing this, she jumped in surprise, loosing the knots and inadvertently allowing Alcmene to give birth to Heracles and Iphicles. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg/220px-Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg/330px-Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg/440px-Herakles_snake_Musei_Capitolini_MC247.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="2540" /></a><figcaption>Heracles as a boy strangling a snake (marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE). <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Museums" title="Capitoline Museums">Capitoline Museums</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, Italy</figcaption></figure> <p>Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to <a href="/wiki/Infant_exposure" class="mw-redirect" title="Infant exposure">expose</a> the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>, who played an important role as protectress of heroes. Hera did not recognize Heracles and <a href="/wiki/Milk_of_Hera" title="Milk of Hera">nursed him out of pity</a>. Heracles suckled so strongly that he caused Hera pain, and she pushed him away. Her milk sprayed across the heavens and there formed the Milky Way. Athena brought the infant back to his mother, and he was subsequently raised by his parents.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The child was originally given the name Alcides by his parents; it was only later that he became known as Heracles.<sup id="cite_ref-Alcides_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alcides-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was renamed Heracles in an unsuccessful attempt to mollify Hera, with Heracles meaning Hera's "pride" or "glory". He and his twin were just eight months old when Hera sent two giant snakes into the children's chamber. Iphicles cried from fear, but his brother grabbed a snake in each hand and strangled them. He was found by his nurse playing with them on his cot as if they were toys. Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer <a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a>, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Youth">Youth</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terracotta_kantharos_(drinking_cup)_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg/220px-Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg/330px-Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg/440px-Terracotta_kantharos_%28drinking_cup%29_in_the_form_of_the_heads_of_Herakles_and_of_a_woman_MET_DP118168.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3426" data-file-height="3618" /></a><figcaption>Side of terracotta <a href="/wiki/Kantharos" title="Kantharos">kantharos</a> in the form of the head of Heracles, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, c. 470 BCE</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CarracciHercules.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/CarracciHercules.jpg/220px-CarracciHercules.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/CarracciHercules.jpg/330px-CarracciHercules.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/CarracciHercules.jpg/440px-CarracciHercules.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="684" /></a><figcaption>The choice of Hercules by <a href="/wiki/Annibale_Carracci" title="Annibale Carracci">Annibale Carracci</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After killing his music tutor <a href="/wiki/Linus_of_Thrace" title="Linus of Thrace">Linus</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a>, he was sent to tend cattle on a mountain by his foster father Amphitryon. Here, according to an allegorical <a href="/wiki/Parable" title="Parable">parable</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Hercules_at_the_crossroads" title="Hercules at the crossroads">The Choice of Heracles</a>", invented by the sophist <a href="/wiki/Prodicus" title="Prodicus">Prodicus</a> (c. 400 BCE) and reported in <a href="/wiki/Xenophon" title="Xenophon">Xenophon</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Memorabilia_(Xenophon)" title="Memorabilia (Xenophon)">Memorabilia</a></i> 2.1.21–34, he was visited by two allegorical figures—Vice and Virtue—who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter. This was part of a pattern of "ethicizing" Heracles over the 5th century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, in <a href="/wiki/Thebes,_Greece" title="Thebes, Greece">Thebes</a>, Heracles married King <a href="/wiki/Creon_of_Thebes" class="mw-redirect" title="Creon of Thebes">Creon</a>'s daughter, <a href="/wiki/Megara_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megara (mythology)">Megara</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Labours_of_Heracles">Labours of Heracles</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" title="Labours of Hercules">Labours of Hercules</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules,_3rd_century_AD,_found_in_Lliria_(Valencia),_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain,_Madrid_(15457108142).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg/220px-Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg/330px-Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg/440px-Mosaic_with_the_Labors_of_Hercules%2C_3rd_century_AD%2C_found_in_Lliria_%28Valencia%29%2C_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Spain%2C_Madrid_%2815457108142%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1118" /></a><figcaption>All 12 labours of Heracles, Mosaic of Llíria (Valencia, Spain)</figcaption></figure> <p>In a fit of madness, induced by Hera, Heracles killed his children and Megara. After his madness had been cured with <a href="/wiki/Hellebore" title="Hellebore">hellebore</a> by Antikyreus, the founder of <a href="/wiki/Anticyra" class="mw-redirect" title="Anticyra">Antikyra</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he realized what he had done and fled to the <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Oracle of Delphi</a>. Unbeknownst to him, the Oracle was guided by Hera. He was directed to serve King <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a> for ten years and perform any task Eurystheus required of him. Eurystheus decided to give Heracles ten labours, but after completing them, Heracles was cheated by Eurystheus when he added two more, resulting in the Twelve Labors of Heracles. If he succeeded, he would be purified of his sin and, as myth says, he would become a god, and be granted immortality. </p><p>Other traditions place Heracles's madness at a later time and relate the circumstances differently.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some traditions, there was only a divine reason for Heracles's twelve labours: Zeus, in his desire not to leave Heracles the victim of Hera's jealousy, made her promise that, if Heracles executed twelve great works in the service of Eurystheus, he should become immortal.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the play <i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, Heracles is driven to madness by Hera and kills his children after his twelve labours. </p><p>Despite the difficulty, Heracles accomplished these tasks, but Eurystheus in the end did not accept the success the hero had with two of the labours: the cleansing of the Augean stables, because Heracles was going to accept pay for the labour; and the killing of the Lernaean Hydra, as Heracles's nephew, <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>, had helped him burn the stumps of the multiplying heads. </p><p>Eurystheus set two more tasks, fetching the Golden Apples of Hesperides and capturing <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a>. In the end, with ease, the hero successfully performed each added task, bringing the total number of labours up to twelve. </p><p>Not all versions and writers give the labours in the same order. The <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheca</a></i> (2.5.1–2.5.12) gives the following order: </p> <dl><dt>1. Slay the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean Lion</a></dt> <dd>Heracles defeated a lion that was attacking the city of <a href="/wiki/Nemea" title="Nemea">Nemea</a> with his bare hands. After he succeeded he wore the skin as a cloak to demonstrate his power over the opponent he had defeated.</dd> <dt>2. Slay the nine-headed <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a></dt> <dd><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="729" /></a><figcaption>Heracles slaying the Lernaean Hydra</figcaption></figure>A fire-breathing monster with multiple serpent heads. When one head was cut off, two would grow in its place. It lived in a swamp near <a href="/wiki/Lerna" title="Lerna">Lerna</a>. Hera had sent it in hopes it would destroy Heracles's home city because she thought it was invincible. With help from his nephew <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>, he defeated the monster and dipped his arrows in its poisoned blood, thus envenomizing them.</dd> <dt>3. Capture the <a href="/wiki/Ceryneian_Hind" title="Ceryneian Hind">Golden Hind of Artemis</a></dt> <dd><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg/220px-Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg/330px-Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg/440px-Palermo-Museo-Archeologico-bjs-08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1028" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and Ceryneian Hind by <a href="/wiki/Lysippos" title="Lysippos">Lysippos</a></figcaption></figure>Not to kill, but to catch, this hind that was sacred to <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>. A different, but still difficult, task. It cost time, but, having chased it for a year, Heracles wore out the Hind. Artemis intervened, but as soon as Heracles explained the situation to her, she allowed him to take it, and he presented it alive to <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a>.</dd> <dt>4. Capture the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a></dt> <dd>A fearsome marauding boar on the loose. Eurystheus set Heracles the Labour of catching it, and bringing it to <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a>. Again, a time-consuming task, but the tireless hero found the beast, captured it, and brought it to its final spot. Patience is the heroic quality in the third and fourth Labours.</dd> <dt>5. Clean the <a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augean</a> stables in a single day</dt> <dd>The Augean stables were the home of 3,000 cattle with poisoned faeces which Augeas had been given by his father <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a>. Heracles was given the near impossible task of cleaning the stables of the diseased faeces. He accomplished it by digging ditches on both sides of the stables, moving them into the ditches, and then diverting the <a href="/wiki/Alfeios" title="Alfeios">rivers Alpheios</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pineios_(Peloponnese)" title="Pineios (Peloponnese)">Pineios</a> to wash the ditches clean.</dd> <dt>6. Slay the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian Birds</a></dt> <dd>These aggressive man-eating birds were terrorizing a forest near <a href="/wiki/Lake_Stymphalia" title="Lake Stymphalia">Lake Stymphalia</a> in northern Arcadia. Heracles scared them with a rattle given to him by Athena, to frighten them into flight away from the forest, allowing him to shoot many of them with his bow and arrow and bring back this proof of his success to Eurystheus.</dd> <dt>7. Capture the <a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a></dt> <dd>The harmful bull, father of the <a href="/wiki/Minotaur" title="Minotaur">Minotaur</a>, was laying waste to the lands round <a href="/wiki/Knossos" title="Knossos">Knossos</a> on <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>. It embodied the rage of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> at having his gift (the Bull) to <a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a> diverted from the intention to sacrifice it to himself. Heracles captured it, and carried it on his shoulders to Eurystheus in <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a>. Eurystheus released it, when it wandered to <a href="/wiki/Marathon,_Greece" title="Marathon, Greece">Marathon</a> which it then terrorized, until killed by <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a>.</dd> <dt>8. Steal the <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></dt> <dd>Stealing the horses from <a href="/wiki/Diomedes_of_Thrace" title="Diomedes of Thrace">Diomedes</a>'s stables that had been trained by their owner to feed on human flesh was his next challenge. Heracles's task was to capture them and hand them over to Eurystheus. He accomplished this task by feeding King Diomedes to the animals before binding their mouths shut.</dd> <dt>9. Obtain the belt of <a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta</a>, Queen of the <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a></dt> <dd>Hippolyta was an Amazon queen and she had a belt given to her by her father <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>. Heracles had to retrieve the belt and return it to Eurystheus. He and his band of companions received a rough welcome because, ordered by Hera, the Amazons were supposed to attack them; however, against all odds, Heracles completed the task and secured the belt for Eurystheus.</dd> <dt>10. Obtain the cattle of the monster <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a></dt> <dd>The next challenge was to capture the herd guarded by a two-headed dog called <a href="/wiki/Orthrus" title="Orthrus">Orthrus</a>, which belonged to Geryon; a giant with three heads and six arms who lived in <a href="/wiki/Erytheia" title="Erytheia">Erytheia</a>. While travelling to Erytheia, he passed through the Libyan desert and was so annoyed by the heat he shot an arrow at Helios, the sun. Helios, impressed, lent him his giant cup which Heracles used to find Orthrus, the herdsman Erytion and the owner, Geryon. He killed the first two with his club and the third with a poisoned arrow. Heracles then herded the cattle and, with difficulty, took them to Eurystheus.</dd> <dt>11. Steal the golden apples of the <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a></dt> <dd><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2139" data-file-height="1467" /></a><figcaption>Hercules stealing the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides</figcaption></figure>These sacred fruits were protected by Hera who had set <a href="/wiki/Ladon_(mythology)" title="Ladon (mythology)">Ladon</a>, a fearsome hundred-headed dragon as the guardian. Heracles had to first find where the garden was; he asked <a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a> for help. He came across <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a> on his journey. Heracles shot the eagle eating at his liver, and in return he helped Heracles with knowledge that his brother would know where the garden was. His brother <a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a> offered him help with the apples if he would hold up the heavens while he was gone. Atlas tricked him and did not return. Heracles returned the trickery and managed to get Atlas taking the burden of the heavens once again, and returned the apples to Mycenae.</dd> <dt>12. Capture and bring back <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></dt> <dd>His last labour and undoubtedly the riskiest. Eurystheus was so frustrated that Heracles was completing all the tasks that he had given him that he imposed one he believed to be impossible: Heracles had to go down into the underworld of <a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a> and capture the ferocious three-headed dog Cerberus who guarded the gates. He used the souls to help convince Hades to hand over the dog. He agreed to give him the dog if he used no weapons to obtain him. Heracles succeeded and took the creature back to Mycenae, causing Eurystheus to be fearful of the power and strength of this hero.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_adventures">Further adventures</h3></div> <p>After completing these tasks, Heracles fell in love with Princess <a href="/wiki/Iole" title="Iole">Iole</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oechalia_(Thessaly)" title="Oechalia (Thessaly)">Oechalia</a>. <a href="/wiki/King_Eurytus_of_Oechalia" class="mw-redirect" title="King Eurytus of Oechalia">King Eurytus of Oechalia</a> promised his daughter, <a href="/wiki/Iole" title="Iole">Iole</a>, to whoever could beat his sons in an archery contest. Heracles won but Eurytus abandoned his promise. Heracles's advances were spurned by the king and his sons, except for one: Iole's brother <a href="/wiki/Iphitus_of_Oechalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphitus of Oechalia">Iphitus</a>. Heracles killed the king and his sons—excluding Iphitus—and abducted Iole. Iphitus became Heracles's best friend. However, once again, Hera drove Heracles mad and he threw Iphitus over the city wall to his death. Once again, Heracles purified himself through three years of servitude—this time to Queen <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Omphale">Omphale</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG/220px-Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG/330px-Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG/440px-Affresco_romano_-_eracle_ed_onfale_-_area_vesuviana.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2073" data-file-height="2014" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a>, Roman fresco, <a href="/wiki/Pompeian_Styles" title="Pompeian Styles">Pompeian Fourth Style</a> (45–79 CE), <a href="/wiki/Naples_National_Archaeological_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Naples National Archaeological Museum">Naples National Archaeological Museum</a>, Italy</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a> was a queen or princess of <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydia</a>. As penalty for a murder, imposed by <a href="/wiki/Xenoclea" title="Xenoclea">Xenoclea</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Delphic Oracle</a>, Heracles was to serve as her slave for a year. He was forced to do women's work and to wear women's clothes, while she wore the skin of the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nemean Lion">Nemean Lion</a> and carried his <a href="/wiki/Olive" title="Olive">olive-wood</a> club. After some time, Omphale freed Heracles and married him. Some sources mention a son born to them who is variously named. It was at that time that the <a href="/wiki/Cercopes" title="Cercopes">cercopes</a>, mischievous wood spirits, stole Heracles's weapons. He punished them by tying them to a stick with their faces pointing downward. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hylas">Hylas</h3></div> <p>While walking through the wilderness, Heracles was set upon by the <a href="/wiki/Dryopes" title="Dryopes">Dryopes</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius of Rhodes</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i>, it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain their king, <a href="/wiki/Theiodamas" title="Theiodamas">Theiodamas</a>, over one of the latter's bulls, and made war upon the Dryopes "because they gave no heed to justice in their lives".<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the death of their king, the Dryopes gave in and offered him Prince <a href="/wiki/Hylas" title="Hylas">Hylas</a>. He took the youth on as his weapons bearer. Years later, Heracles and Hylas joined the crew of the <i><a href="/wiki/Argo" title="Argo">Argo</a></i>. As Argonauts, they only participated in part of the journey. In <a href="/wiki/Mysia" title="Mysia">Mysia</a>, Hylas was kidnapped by the nymphs of a local spring. Heracles, searched for a long time but Hylas had fallen in love with the nymphs and never showed up again. In other versions, he simply drowned. Either way, the <i>Argo</i> set sail without them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rescue_of_Prometheus">Rescue of Prometheus</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Unbound_(Aeschylus)" title="Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus)">Prometheus Unbound</a></i> both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a> (which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals). Heracles freed the <a href="/wiki/Titan_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan (mythology)">Titan</a> from his chains and his torments. Prometheus then made predictions regarding further deeds of Heracles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heracles's_constellation"><span id="Heracles.27s_constellation"></span>Heracles's constellation</h3></div> <p>On his way back to <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a> from <a href="/wiki/Iberia" class="mw-redirect" title="Iberia">Iberia</a>, having obtained the Cattle of <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a> as his <a href="/wiki/The_Twelve_Labours" class="mw-redirect" title="The Twelve Labours">tenth labour</a>, Heracles came to <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Liguria</a> in North-Western <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> where he engaged in battle with two giants, <a href="/wiki/Alebion" title="Alebion">Albion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bergion" class="mw-redirect" title="Bergion">Bergion</a> or Dercynus, sons of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>. The opponents were strong; Heracles was in a difficult position so he prayed to his father <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> for help. Under the aegis of Zeus, Heracles won the battle. It was this kneeling position of Heracles when he prayed to his father Zeus that gave the name <a href="/wiki/Engonasin#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Engonasin">Engonasin</a> (<i>"Εγγόνασιν"</i>, derived from "εν γόνασιν"), meaning "on his knees" or "the Kneeler", to the constellation known as <a href="/wiki/Hercules_(constellation)" title="Hercules (constellation)">Heracles's constellation</a>. The story, among others, is described by <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heracles's_sack_of_Troy"><span id="Heracles.27s_sack_of_Troy"></span>Heracles's sack of Troy</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:College_of_the_Augustali_(7254063590).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg/220px-College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg/330px-College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg/440px-College_of_the_Augustali_%287254063590%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="3549" /></a><figcaption>A fresco from <a href="/wiki/Herculaneum" title="Herculaneum">Herculaneum</a> depicting Heracles and <a href="/wiki/Achelous" title="Achelous">Achelous</a> from <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greco</a>-<a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman mythology</a>, 1st century CE</figcaption></figure> <p>Before <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s Trojan War, Heracles had made an expedition to Troy and sacked it. Previously, Poseidon had sent a sea monster (Greek: kētŏs, Latin: <a href="/wiki/Cetus_(mythology)" title="Cetus (mythology)">cetus</a>) to attack <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>. The story is related in several digressions in the <i>Iliad</i> (7.451–53; 20.145–48; 21.442–57) and is found in pseudo-Apollodorus's <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheke</a> (2.5.9). This expedition became the theme of the Eastern pediment of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Aphaea#Eastern_pediment" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Aphaea">Temple of Aphaea</a>. <a href="/wiki/Laomedon" title="Laomedon">Laomedon</a> planned on sacrificing his daughter <a href="/wiki/Hesione" title="Hesione">Hesione</a> to Poseidon in the hope of appeasing him. Heracles happened to arrive (along with <a href="/wiki/Telamon" title="Telamon">Telamon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oicles" title="Oicles">Oicles</a>) and agreed to kill the monster if Laomedon would give him the horses received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus's kidnapping <a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a>. Laomedon agreed. Heracles killed the monster, but Laomedon went back on his word. Accordingly, in a later expedition, Heracles and his followers attacked Troy and sacked it. Then they slew all Laomedon's sons present there save <a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">Podarces</a>, who was renamed Priam, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made. Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and they had a son, <a href="/wiki/Teucer" title="Teucer">Teucer</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colony_at_Sardinia">Colony at Sardinia</h3></div> <p>After Heracles had performed his Labours, gods told him that before he passed into the company of the gods, he should create a colony at <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a> and make his sons, whom he had with the daughters of <a href="/wiki/Thespius" title="Thespius">Thespius</a>, the leaders of the settlement. When his sons became adults, he sent them together with <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a> to the island.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_adventures">Other adventures</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg/220px-NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg/330px-NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg/440px-NAMA_H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s_%26_Busiris.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1660" /></a><figcaption>Heracles fighting the servants of the Egyptian King <a href="/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Busiris (Greek mythology)">Busiris</a>, Attic <i><a href="/wiki/Pelike" title="Pelike">Pelike</a></i>, c. 470 BCE</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Heracles defeated the <a href="/wiki/Bebryces" title="Bebryces">Bebryces</a> (ruled by King <a href="/wiki/Mygdon_of_Phrygia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mygdon of Phrygia">Mygdon</a>) and gave their land to Prince <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lycus_(son_of_Dascylus)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lycus (son of Dascylus) (page does not exist)">Lycus</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mysia" title="Mysia">Mysia</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Dascylus" title="Dascylus">Dascylus</a>.</li> <li>He killed the robber <a href="/wiki/Termerus" title="Termerus">Termerus</a>.</li> <li>Heracles visited <a href="/wiki/Evander_(philosopher)" title="Evander (philosopher)">Evander</a> with Antor, who then stayed in Italy.</li> <li>Heracles killed King <a href="/wiki/Amyntor_(son_of_Ormenus)" title="Amyntor (son of Ormenus)">Amyntor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ormenium" title="Ormenium">Ormenium</a> for not allowing him into his kingdom. He also killed King <a href="/wiki/Emathion" title="Emathion">Emathion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a>.</li> <li>Heracles kills the Egyptian King <a href="/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Busiris (Greek mythology)">Busiris</a> and his followers after they attempt to sacrifice him to the gods.</li> <li>Heracles killed <a href="/wiki/Lityerses" title="Lityerses">Lityerses</a> after beating him in a contest of harvesting.</li> <li>Heracles killed <a href="/wiki/Periclymenus" title="Periclymenus">Periclymenus</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pylos" title="Pylos">Pylos</a>.</li> <li>Heracles killed <a href="/wiki/Syleus_(mythology)" title="Syleus (mythology)">Syleus</a> for forcing strangers to hoe a vineyard.</li> <li>Heracles rivaled with <a href="/wiki/Lepreus_(mythology)" title="Lepreus (mythology)">Lepreus</a> and eventually killed him.</li> <li>Heracles founded the city <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Tarentum</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Taranto" title="Taranto">Taranto</a> in Italy).</li> <li>Heracles learned music from <a href="/wiki/Linus_(mythology)" title="Linus (mythology)">Linus</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Eumolpus" title="Eumolpus">Eumolpus</a>), but killed him after Linus corrected his mistakes and caned him with rods. He learned how to wrestle from <a href="/wiki/Autolycus" title="Autolycus">Autolycus</a>. He killed the famous boxer <a href="/wiki/Eryx_(mythology)" title="Eryx (mythology)">Eryx</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> in a match.</li> <li>Heracles was an <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonaut</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1.9.16_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1.9.16-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He killed <a href="/wiki/Alastor" title="Alastor">Alastor</a> and his brothers.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_och_Antaios,_Nordisk_familjebok.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/220px-Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="394" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/330px-Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/440px-Herakles_och_Antaios%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png 2x" data-file-width="773" data-file-height="1383" /></a><figcaption>Heracles killing the giant, <a href="/wiki/Antaeus" title="Antaeus">Antaeus</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>When <a href="/wiki/Hippocoon" title="Hippocoon">Hippocoon</a> overthrew his brother, <a href="/wiki/Tyndareus" title="Tyndareus">Tyndareus</a>, as King of <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a>, Heracles reinstated the rightful ruler and killed Hippocoon and his sons.</li> <li>Heracles killed <a href="/wiki/Cycnus_(son_of_Ares)" title="Cycnus (son of Ares)">Cycnus</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>. The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_Heracles" title="Shield of Heracles">Shield of Heracles</a></i>.</li> <li>When Ares tried to avenge Cycnus, Heracles defeated him, with the help of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>.</li> <li>Heracles killed the <a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Giants</a> <a href="/wiki/Alcyoneus" title="Alcyoneus">Alcyoneus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Porphyrion" title="Porphyrion">Porphyrion</a>.</li> <li>Heracles killed <a href="/wiki/Antaeus" title="Antaeus">Antaeus</a> the giant who was immortal while touching the earth, by picking him up and holding him in the air while strangling him.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pygmy_(Greek_mythology)" title="Pygmy (Greek mythology)">Pygmies</a> tried to kill Heracles because they were brothers of Antaeus and wanted to avenge Antaeus's death, but failed.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Heracles went to war with <a href="/wiki/Augeias" class="mw-redirect" title="Augeias">Augeias</a> after he denied him a promised reward for clearing his stables. Augeias remained undefeated due to the skill of his two generals, the Molionides, and after Heracles fell ill, his army was badly beaten. Later, however, he was able to ambush and kill the Molionides, and thus march into Elis, sack it, and kill Augeias and his sons.</li> <li>Heracles visited the house of <a href="/wiki/Admetus" class="mw-redirect" title="Admetus">Admetus</a> on the day Admetus's wife, <a href="/wiki/Alcestis" title="Alcestis">Alcestis</a>, had agreed to die in his place. Admetus, not wanting to turn Heracles away, nor wanting to burden him with his sadness, welcomes him and instructs the servants not to inform Heracles of what has occurred. Heracles, thus unaware of Alcestis's fate, enjoys the hospitality of Admetus's house, drinking and revelling, which angers the servants, who wish to mourn as is their right. One scolds the guest and Heracles is ashamed of his actions. By hiding beside the grave of Alcestis, Heracles was able to surprise Death when he came to collect her, and by squeezing him tight until he relented, was able to persuade Death to return Alcestis to her husband.</li> <li>Heracles challenged wine god <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> to a drinking contest and lost, resulting in his joining the <a href="/wiki/Thiasus" title="Thiasus">Thiasus</a> for a period.</li> <li>Heracles also appears in <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Frogs" title="The Frogs">The Frogs</a></i>, in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld. Heracles is greatly amused by Dionysus's appearance and jokingly offers several ways to commit suicide before finally offering his knowledge of how to get to there.</li> <li>Heracles appears as the ancestral hero of Scythia in Herodotus's text. While Heracles is sleeping out in the wilderness, a half-woman, half-snake creature steals his horses. Heracles eventually finds the creature, but she refuses to return the horses until he has sex with her. After doing so, he takes back his horses, but before leaving, he hands over his belt and bow, and gives instructions as to which of their children should found a new nation in Scythia.</li> <li>In the fifth book of the <i>New History</i>, ascribed by <a href="/wiki/Photius" class="mw-redirect" title="Photius">Photius</a> to <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Hephaestion" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy Hephaestion">Ptolemy Hephaestion</a>, mention that Heracles did not wear the skin of the Nemean lion, but that of a certain Lion giant killed by Heracles whom he had challenged to single combat.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Heracles fought and killed <a href="/wiki/Cacus" title="Cacus">Cacus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Heracles fought with the <a href="/wiki/Sicani" title="Sicani">Sicani</a> people, killing many including the famous <a href="/wiki/Leucaspis" title="Leucaspis">Leucaspis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Heracles encountered <a href="/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla">Scylla</a> during a journey to Sicily and slew her.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules,_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg/220px-Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg/330px-Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg/440px-Muerte_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_por_Zurbar%C3%A1n.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3051" data-file-height="2483" /></a><figcaption><i>Death of Hercules</i> (painting by <a href="/wiki/Francisco_de_Zurbar%C3%A1n" title="Francisco de Zurbarán">Francisco de Zurbarán</a>, 1634, Museo del Prado)</figcaption></figure> <p>This is described in <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Trachiniae" class="mw-redirect" title="Trachiniae">Trachiniae</a></i> and in <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> Book IX. Having wrestled and defeated <a href="/wiki/Achelous" title="Achelous">Achelous</a>, god of the Acheloos river, Heracles takes <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a> as his wife. Travelling to <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">centaur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)" title="Nessus (mythology)">Nessus</a>, offers to help Deianira across a fast flowing river while Heracles swims it. However, Nessus is true to the archetype of the mischievous centaur and tries to steal Deianira away while Heracles is still in the water. Angry, Heracles shoots him with his arrows dipped in the poisonous blood of the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>. Thinking of revenge, Nessus gives Deianira his <a href="/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus" title="Shirt of Nessus">blood-soaked tunic</a> before he dies, telling her it will "excite the love of her husband".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several years later, <a href="/wiki/Rumor" title="Rumor">rumor</a> tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles. Deianira, remembering Nessus's words, gives Heracles the bloodstained shirt. Lichas, the herald, delivers the shirt to Heracles. However, it is still covered in the Hydra's blood from Heracles's arrows, and this poisons him, tearing his skin and exposing his bones. Before he dies, Heracles throws <a href="/wiki/Lichas" title="Lichas">Lichas</a> into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him (according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him). Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a <a href="/wiki/Pyre_of_Herakles" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyre of Herakles">funeral pyre</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Oeta" title="Mount Oeta">Mount Oeta</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Poeas" title="Poeas">Poeas</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/Philoctetes" title="Philoctetes">Philoctetes</a>, lights. As his body burns, only his immortal side is left. Through Zeus's <a href="/wiki/Apotheosis" title="Apotheosis">apotheosis</a>, Heracles rises to Olympus as he dies. </p><p>No one but Heracles's friend <a href="/wiki/Philoctetes" title="Philoctetes">Philoctetes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Poeas" title="Poeas">Poeas</a> in some versions) would light his funeral pyre (in an alternative version, it is <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a> who lights the pyre). For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles's bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War. </p><p>Philoctetes confronted <a href="/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" title="Paris (mythology)">Paris</a> and shot a <a href="/wiki/Poisoned_arrow" class="mw-redirect" title="Poisoned arrow">poisoned arrow</a> at him. The Hydra poison subsequently led to the death of Paris. The Trojan War, however, continued until the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_Horse" title="Trojan Horse">Trojan Horse</a> was used to defeat <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, Heracles lived 900 years before Herodotus's own time (c. 1300 BCE).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Godhood">Godhood</h3></div> <p>After his death in the pyre, Heracles ascended to Olympus as a god, and having finally reconciled with Hera, he got her daughter <a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a> as his fourth and final wife. They had two sons together, <a href="/wiki/Alexiares_and_Anicetus" title="Alexiares and Anicetus">Alexiares and Anicetus</a>. </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon">Typhon</a> attacked Olympus, all gods transformed into animals and ran terrified to Egypt; Heracles became a fawn.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Gods" title="Dialogues of the Gods">Dialogues of the Gods</a></i>, a satirical work by <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a> of <a href="/wiki/Samsat" title="Samsat">Samosata</a>, Heracles and another recently deified mortal, <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a>, fight over which gets the most prestigious seat on the table of the gods, each arguing that they are the one who deserve it. Zeus intervenes, and rules in favour of Asclepius, reasoning that the best seat should go to the one who became a god first.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heracles also appears to <a href="/wiki/Philoctetes" title="Philoctetes">Philoctetes</a>, stranded and abandoned by the other Greeks on <a href="/wiki/Lemnos" title="Lemnos">Lemnos</a> island, and through his <i><a href="/wiki/Deus_ex_machina" title="Deus ex machina">deus ex machina</a></i> intervention, Philoctetes is convinced to join the other Greeks at <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>, where he kills <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> with Heracles's arrows.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christian_chronology">Christian chronology</h3></div> <p>In Christian circles, a <a href="/wiki/Euhemerism" title="Euhemerism">Euhemerist</a> reading of the widespread Heracles cult was attributed to a historical figure who had been offered cult status after his death. Thus <a href="/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" class="mw-redirect" title="Eusebius of Caesarea">Eusebius</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Preparation_of_the_Gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="Preparation of the Gospel">Preparation of the Gospel</a></i> (10.12), reported that <a href="/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria" title="Clement of Alexandria">Clement</a> could offer historical dates for Heracles as a king in Argos: "from the reign of Heracles in <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a> to the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deification" class="extiw" title="wikt:deification">deification</a> of Heracles himself and of <a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a> there are comprised thirty-eight years, according to <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a> the chronicler: and from that point to the deification of <a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Castor and Pollux</a> fifty-three years: and somewhere about this time was the capture of <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>." </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg/225px-Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg/338px-Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg/450px-Agrigent_Heraklestempel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3040" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Heracles,_Agrigento" title="Temple of Heracles, Agrigento">Temple to Heracles</a> in <a href="/wiki/Agrigento" title="Agrigento">Agrigento</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, Italy</figcaption></figure> <p>Readers with a literalist bent, following Clement's reasoning, have asserted from this remark that, since Heracles ruled over <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a> in Argos at the same time that <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a> ruled over <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a>, and since at about this time <a href="/wiki/Linus_(mythology)" title="Linus (mythology)">Linus</a> was Heracles's teacher, one can conclude, based on <a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a>'s date—in his <a href="/wiki/Universal_history_(genre)" title="Universal history (genre)">universal history</a>, his <i>Chronicon</i>—given to Linus's notoriety in teaching Heracles in 1264 BCE, that Heracles's death and deification occurred 38 years later, in approximately 1226 BCE. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lovers">Lovers</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women">Women</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Marriages">Marriages</h4></div> <p>During the course of his life, Heracles married four times. </p> <ul><li>Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married his first wife <a href="/wiki/Megara_(wife_of_Heracles)" title="Megara (wife of Heracles)">Megara</a>, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes. But he killed their children in a fit of madness sent by Hera and, consequently, was obliged to become the servant of Eurystheus. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheca, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.4.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022">2.4.12</a>) Megara was unharmed. According to Hyginus (Fabulae, 32), Heracles also killed Megara.</li></ul> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg/263px-HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg" decoding="async" width="263" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg/395px-HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg/526px-HeraclesLocoObraTeatral.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3518" data-file-height="2878" /></a><figcaption>An insane Heracles is depicted killing his son while Megara stands horrified on the right side of the scene (<a href="/wiki/National_Archaeological_Museum,_Madrid" class="mw-redirect" title="National Archaeological Museum, Madrid">National Archaeological Museum, Madrid</a>, c. 350–320 B.C.E.)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>His second wife was <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lydia" title="Lydia">Lydian</a> queen to whom he was delivered as a slave (Hyginus, Fabulae, 32).</li> <li>His third marriage was to <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a>, for whom he had to fight the river god <a href="/wiki/Achelous" title="Achelous">Achelous</a> (upon Achelous's defeat, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the <a href="/wiki/Cornucopia" title="Cornucopia">cornucopia</a>). Soon after they wed, Heracles and Deianira had to cross a river, and a <a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">centaur</a> named <a href="/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)" title="Nessus (mythology)">Nessus</a> offered to help Deianira across but then attempted to <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> her. Enraged, Heracles shot the centaur from the opposite shore with a poisoned arrow (tipped with the Lernaean Hydra's blood) and killed him. As he lay dying, Nessus plotted revenge, told Deianira to gather up his blood and spilled semen and, if she ever wanted to prevent Heracles from having affairs with other women, she should apply them to his vestments. Nessus knew that his blood had become tainted by the poisonous blood of the Hydra, and would burn through the skin of anyone it touched. Later, when Deianira suspected that Heracles was fond of <a href="/wiki/Iole" title="Iole">Iole</a>, she soaked a shirt of his in the mixture, creating the poisoned <a href="/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus" title="Shirt of Nessus">shirt of Nessus</a>. Heracles's servant, <a href="/wiki/Lichas" title="Lichas">Lichas</a>, brought him the shirt and he put it on. Instantly he was in agony, the cloth burning into him. As he tried to remove it, the flesh ripped from his bones. Heracles chose a voluntary death, asking that a <a href="/wiki/Pyre" title="Pyre">pyre</a> be built for him to end his suffering. After death, the gods transformed him into an immortal, or alternatively, the fire burned away the mortal part of the demigod, so that only the god remained. After his mortal parts had been incinerated, he could become a full god and join his father and the other Olympians on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus_(Mountain)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Olympus (Mountain)">Mount Olympus</a>.</li> <li>His fourth marriage was to <a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a>, his last wife.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Affairs">Affairs</h4></div> <p>An episode of his female affairs that stands out was his stay at the palace of <a href="/wiki/Thespius" title="Thespius">Thespius</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Thespiae" title="Thespiae">Thespiae</a>, who wished him to kill the <a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Cithaeron" title="Lion of Cithaeron">Lion of Cithaeron</a>. As a reward, the king offered him the chance to perform <a href="/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sexual intercourse</a> with all fifty of his daughters in one night. Heracles complied and they all became pregnant and all bore sons. This is sometimes referred to as his Thirteenth Labour.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the kings of ancient Greece traced their lines to one or another of these, notably the kings of <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedon</a>. </p><p>Yet another episode of his female affairs that stands out was when he carried away the oxen of <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a>, he also visited the country of the <a href="/wiki/Scythians" title="Scythians">Scythians</a>. Once there, while asleep, his horses suddenly disappeared. When he woke and wandered about in search of them, he came into the country of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hylaea_(geography)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hylaea (geography) (page does not exist)">Hylaea</a>. He then found the <a href="/wiki/Drakaina_(mythology)" title="Drakaina (mythology)">dracaena</a> of <a href="/wiki/Scythia" title="Scythia">Scythia</a> (sometimes identified as <a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a>) in a cave. When he asked whether she knew anything about his horses, she answered, that they were in her own possession, but that she would not give them up, unless he would consent to stay with her for a time. Heracles accepted the request, and became by her the father of <a href="/wiki/Agathyrsus" class="mw-redirect" title="Agathyrsus">Agathyrsus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gelonus" title="Gelonus">Gelonus</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scythes_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scythes (mythology) (page does not exist)">Scythes</a>. The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to his father's arrangement, because he was the only one among the three brothers that was able to manage the bow which Heracles had left behind and to use his father's girdle.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a> writes that Heracles and Lavinia, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Evander_of_Pallene" class="mw-redirect" title="Evander of Pallene">Evander</a>, had a son named Pallas.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Men">Men</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px 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href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a> (Fountain mosaic from the <a href="/wiki/Anzio" title="Anzio">Anzio</a> Nymphaeum)</figcaption></figure> <p>Many myths were later 'homosexualized' after the development of ancient Greek practice of <a href="/wiki/Pederasty" title="Pederasty">pederasty</a> and athletic nudity c. 630 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, in his <i>Eroticos,</i> maintains that Heracles's male lovers were beyond counting. Of these, the one most closely linked to Heracles is the <a href="/wiki/Thebes,_Greece" title="Thebes, Greece">Theban</a> <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>. According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles's charioteer and squire. Heracles in the end helped Iolaus find a wife. Plutarch reports that down to his own time, male couples would go to Iolaus's tomb in Thebes to swear an oath of loyalty to the hero and to each other.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also mentions <a href="/wiki/Admetus" class="mw-redirect" title="Admetus">Admetus</a>, known in myth for assisting the <a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar_hunt" title="Calydonian boar hunt">Calydonian boar hunt</a>, as one of Heracles's male lovers.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-advo_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-advo-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of Heracles's male lovers, and one represented in ancient as well as modern art, is <a href="/wiki/Hylas" title="Hylas">Hylas</a>, who sailed with Heracles on the <a href="/wiki/Argo" title="Argo">Argo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-advo_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-advo-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another reputed male lover of Heracles is Elacatas, who was honored in <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta</a> with a sanctuary and yearly games, Elacatea. The myth of their love is an ancient one.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Abdera,_Thrace" title="Abdera, Thrace">Abdera</a>'s eponymous hero, <a href="/wiki/Abderus" title="Abderus">Abderus</a>, was another of Heracles's lovers. He was said to have been entrusted with—and slain by—the carnivorous mares of Thracian <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Diomedes</a>. Heracles founded the city of Abdera in <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a> in his memory, where he was honored with athletic games.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another myth is that of <a href="/wiki/Iphitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphitus">Iphitus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another story is the one of his love for <a href="/wiki/Nireus" title="Nireus">Nireus</a>, who was "the most beautiful man who came beneath Ilion" (<i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i>, 673). But Ptolemy adds that certain authors made Nireus out to be a son of Heracles.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> makes mention of <a href="/wiki/Sostratus_of_Dyme" title="Sostratus of Dyme">Sostratus</a>, a youth of Dyme, <a href="/wiki/Achaea" title="Achaea">Achaea</a>, as a lover of Heracles. Sostratus was said to have died young and to have been buried by Heracles outside the city. The tomb was still there in historical times, and the inhabitants of Dyme honored Sostratus as a <a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">hero</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The youth seems to have also been referred to as <a href="/wiki/Polystratus" title="Polystratus">Polystratus</a>. </p><p>A series of lovers are only known in later literature. Among these are <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PC_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PC-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Corythus" title="Corythus">Corythus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PC_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PC-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Argus_(Greek_myth)" title="Argus (Greek myth)">Argus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)" title="Nestor (mythology)">Nestor</a> who was said to have been loved for his wisdom. In the account of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaeus_Chennus" title="Ptolemaeus Chennus">Ptolemaeus Chennus</a>, Nestor's role as lover explains why he was the only son of <a href="/wiki/Neleus" title="Neleus">Neleus</a> to be spared by the hero.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hapo_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hapo-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">scholiast</a> commenting on <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i> lists the following male lovers of Heracles: "Hylas, <a href="/wiki/Philoctetes" title="Philoctetes">Philoctetes</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Diomus_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diomus (mythology) (page does not exist)">Diomus</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Perithoas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perithoas (page does not exist)">Perithoas</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Phrix&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phrix (page does not exist)">Phrix</a>, after whom a city in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> was named".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Diomus is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as the eponym of the <a href="/wiki/Deme" title="Deme">deme</a> <a href="/wiki/Diomeia" class="mw-redirect" title="Diomeia">Diomeia</a> of the Attic <a href="/wiki/Phyle" title="Phyle">phyle</a> Aegeis: Heracles is said to have fallen in love with Diomus when he was received as guest by Diomus's father Collytus.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Perithoas and Phrix are otherwise unknown, and so is the version that suggests a sexual relationship between Heracles and Philoctetes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Children">Children</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg/170px-Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg/255px-Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg/340px-Herakles_and_Telephos_Louvre_MR219.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3640" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and his son <a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a>. (Marble, Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd century CE)</figcaption></figure> <p>All of Heracles's marriages and almost all of his affairs resulted in births of a number of sons and at least four daughters. One of the most prominent is <a href="/wiki/Hyllus" title="Hyllus">Hyllus</a>, the son of Heracles and <a href="/wiki/Deianeira" class="mw-redirect" title="Deianeira">Deianeira</a> or <a href="/wiki/Melite_(naiad)" title="Melite (naiad)">Melite</a>. The term <i>Heracleidae</i>, although it could refer to all of Heracles's children and further descendants, is most commonly used to indicate the descendants of Hyllus, in the context of their lasting struggle for return to Peloponnesus, out of where Hyllus and his brothers—the children of Heracles by Deianeira—were thought to have been expelled by Eurystheus. </p><p>The children of Heracles by Megara are collectively well known because of their ill fate, but there is some disagreement among sources as to their number and individual names. Apollodorus lists three, Therimachus, Creontiades and Deicoon;<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to these Hyginus<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> adds Ophitus and, probably by mistake, Archelaus, who is otherwise known to have belonged to the Heracleidae, but to have lived several generations later. A scholiast on <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>' s odes provides a list of seven completely different names: Anicetus, Chersibius, Mecistophonus, Menebrontes, Patrocles, Polydorus, Toxocleitus.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other well-known children of Heracles include <a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Mysia" title="Mysia">Mysia</a> (by <a href="/wiki/Auge" title="Auge">Auge</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Tlepolemus" title="Tlepolemus">Tlepolemus</a>, one of the Greek commanders in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> (by Astyoche). </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, a line of 22 <a href="/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Lydia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kings of Lydia">Kings of Lydia</a> descended from Heracles and Omphale. The line was called Tylonids after his Lydian name. </p><p>The divine sons of Heracles and <a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a> are <a href="/wiki/Alexiares_and_Anicetus" title="Alexiares and Anicetus">Alexiares and Anicetus</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consorts_and_children">Consorts and children</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Megara_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megara (mythology)">Megara</a> <ol><li>Therimachus</li> <li>Creontiades</li> <li>Ophitus</li> <li>Deicoon</li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Agelaus" title="Agelaus">Agelaus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tyrsenus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tyrsenus (page does not exist)">Tyrsenus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Hyllus" title="Hyllus">Hyllus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ctesippus" title="Ctesippus">Ctesippus</a></li> <li>Glenus</li> <li>Oneites</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macaria_(daughter_of_Heracles)" title="Macaria (daughter of Heracles)">Macaria</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Onites_(myth)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Onites (myth) (page does not exist)">Onites</a><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Alexiares_and_Anicetus" title="Alexiares and Anicetus">Alexiares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexiares_and_Anicetus" title="Alexiares and Anicetus">Anicetus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astydameia" title="Astydameia">Astydameia</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Ormenus" title="Ormenus">Ormenus</a> or <a href="/wiki/Amyntor_(son_of_Ormenus)" title="Amyntor (son of Ormenus)">Amyntor</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Ctesippus" title="Ctesippus">Ctesippus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astyoche" title="Astyoche">Astyoche</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Phylas" title="Phylas">Phylas</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Tlepolemus" title="Tlepolemus">Tlepolemus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auge" title="Auge">Auge</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonoe_(mythology)" title="Autonoe (mythology)">Autonoë</a>, daughter of Piraeus / <a href="/wiki/Iphinoe_(mythology)" title="Iphinoe (mythology)">Iphinoe</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Antaeus" title="Antaeus">Antaeus</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Palaemon_(Greek_myth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palaemon (Greek myth)">Palaemon</a></li></ol></li> <li>Baletia, daughter of Baletus <ol><li>Brettus<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li>Barge <ol><li>Bargasus<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolbe" title="Bolbe">Bolbe</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Olynthus_(mythology)" title="Olynthus (mythology)">Olynthus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtine" title="Celtine">Celtine</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Celtus" title="Celtus">Celtus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalciope" title="Chalciope">Chalciope</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Thessalus" title="Thessalus">Thessalus</a></li></ol></li> <li>Chania, nymph <ol><li>Gelon<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Scythia" title="Scythia">Scythian</a> <a href="/wiki/Drakaina_(mythology)" title="Drakaina (mythology)">dracaena</a> or <a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Agathyrsi" title="Agathyrsi">Agathyrsus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gelonians" title="Gelonians">Gelonus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gelonians" title="Gelonians">Scythes</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epicaste" title="Epicaste">Epicaste</a> <ol><li>Thestalus</li></ol></li> <li>Lavinia, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Evander_of_Pallene" class="mw-redirect" title="Evander of Pallene">Evander</a><sup id="cite_ref-Dion._Hal._1._43_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dion._Hal._1._43-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ol><li>Pallas</li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maliya#Greek_attestations" title="Maliya">Malis</a>, a slave of Omphale <ol><li>Acelus<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meda_(mythology)" title="Meda (mythology)">Meda</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_(mythology)" title="Antiochus (mythology)">Antiochus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melite_(heroine)" title="Melite (heroine)">Melite (heroine)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melite_(naiad)" title="Melite (naiad)">Melite (naiad)</a> <ol><li>Hyllus (possibly)</li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrto_(mythology)" title="Myrto (mythology)">Myrto</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Eucleia" title="Eucleia">Eucleia</a></li></ol></li> <li>Palantho of <a href="/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea">Hyperborea</a><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ol><li>Latinus<sup id="cite_ref-Dion._Hal._1._43_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dion._Hal._1._43-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthenope_(mythology)" title="Parthenope (mythology)">Parthenope</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Stymphalus_(son_of_Elatus)" title="Stymphalus (son of Elatus)">Stymphalus (son of Elatus)</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Everes_(mythology)" title="Everes (mythology)">Everes (mythology)</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phialo" title="Phialo">Phialo</a> <ol><li>Aechmagoras</li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psophis_(mythology)" title="Psophis (mythology)">Psophis</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Echephron" title="Echephron">Echephron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promachus" title="Promachus">Promachus</a></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrene_(daughter_of_Bebryx)" title="Pyrene (daughter of Bebryx)">Pyrene</a> <ol><li>none known</li></ol></li> <li>Rhea, Italian priestess <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Aventinus_(mythology)" title="Aventinus (mythology)">Aventinus</a><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thebe_(daughter_of_Adramys)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thebe (daughter of Adramys)">Thebe (daughter of Adramys)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinjis" title="Tinjis">Tinge</a>, wife of Antaeus <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Sufax" title="Sufax">Sophax</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li>50 daughters of Thespius <ol><li>50 sons, see <a href="/wiki/Thespius#Daughters_and_grandchildren" title="Thespius">Thespius#Daughters and grandchildren</a></li></ol></li> <li>Unnamed <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celtic</a> woman <ol><li>Galates<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li>Unnamed female slave of <a href="/wiki/Iardanus_(father_of_Omphale)" title="Iardanus (father of Omphale)">Iardanus</a> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_(mythology)" title="Alcaeus (mythology)">Alcaeus</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cleodaeus" title="Cleodaeus">Cleodaeus</a></li></ol></li> <li>Unnamed daughter of Syleus (Xenodoce?)<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Unnamed daughter of Aphra <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Diodorus">Diodorus</a><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li>Unknown consorts <ol><li>Agylleus<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amathes" title="Amathes">Amathous</a><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Azon<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chromis_(mythology)" title="Chromis (mythology)">Chromis</a><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Cyrnus<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dexamenus" title="Dexamenus">Dexamenus</a><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Leucites<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manto_(mythology)" title="Manto (mythology)">Manto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandaie" title="Pandaie">Pandaie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaistos#Iron_Age" title="Phaistos">Phaestus</a> <i>or</i> Rhopalus<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li></ol> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Heracles_around_the_world">Heracles around the world</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rome">Rome</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_ancient_Rome" title="Hercules in ancient Rome">Hercules in ancient Rome</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tesoro_di_hildesheim,_argento,_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.,_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG/220px-Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG/330px-Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG/440px-Tesoro_di_hildesheim%2C_argento%2C_I_sec_ac-I_dc_ca.%2C_piatto_da_parata_con_ercole_bambino_e_i_serpenti_01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1876" data-file-height="1876" /></a><figcaption>A Roman gilded silver bowl depicting the boy <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a> strangling two serpents, from the <a href="/wiki/Hildesheim_Treasure" title="Hildesheim Treasure">Hildesheim Treasure</a>, 1st century CE, <a href="/wiki/Altes_Museum" title="Altes Museum">Altes Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In Rome, Heracles was honored as <i>Hercules</i>, and had a number of distinctively Roman myths and practices associated with him under that name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egypt">Egypt</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> connected Heracles to the <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> god <a href="/wiki/Shu_(Egyptian_deity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shu (Egyptian deity)">Shu</a>. Also he was associated with <a href="/wiki/Khonsu" title="Khonsu">Khonsu</a>, another Egyptian god who was in some ways similar to Shu. As Khonsu, Heracles was worshipped at the now sunken city of <a href="/wiki/Heracleion" title="Heracleion">Heracleion</a>, where a large temple was constructed. </p><p>Most often the Egyptians identified Heracles with <a href="/wiki/Heryshaf" title="Heryshaf">Heryshaf</a>, transcribed in <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> as <i>Arsaphes</i> or <i>Harsaphes</i> (Ἁρσαφής).<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was an ancient <a href="/wiki/Ram_(sheep)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ram (sheep)">ram</a>-<a href="/wiki/God" title="God">god</a> whose cult was centered in <a href="/wiki/Herakleopolis_Magna" class="mw-redirect" title="Herakleopolis Magna">Herakleopolis Magna</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_cultures">Other cultures</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Heracles_in_popular_culture" title="Heracles in popular culture">Heracles in popular culture</a></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hellenistic-era depiction of the Zoroastrian divinity Bahram as Hercules carved in 153 BCE at Kermanshah, Iran."><img alt="Hellenistic-era depiction of the Zoroastrian divinity Bahram as Hercules carved in 153 BCE at Kermanshah, Iran." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg/200px-Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg/300px-Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg/400px-Bistoon_Kermanshah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hellenistic-era depiction of the <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrian">Zoroastrian</a> divinity <a href="/wiki/Verethragna" title="Verethragna">Bahram</a> as Hercules carved in 153 BCE at <a href="/wiki/Kermanshah" title="Kermanshah">Kermanshah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The protector Vajrapani of the Buddha is another incarnation of Heracles (Gandhara, 1st century CE)."><img alt="The protector Vajrapani of the Buddha is another incarnation of Heracles (Gandhara, 1st century CE)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg/150px-Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg/225px-Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg/300px-Museum_f%C3%BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_015.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1410" data-file-height="1881" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The protector <a href="/wiki/Vajrapani" title="Vajrapani">Vajrapani</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a> is another incarnation of Heracles (<a href="/wiki/Gandhara" title="Gandhara">Gandhara</a>, 1st century CE).</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Heracles as protector of Buddha, Vajrapani, 2nd-century Gandhara."><img alt="Heracles as protector of Buddha, Vajrapani, 2nd-century Gandhara." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG/184px-Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG" decoding="async" width="184" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG/276px-Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG/368px-Buddha-Vajrapani-Herakles.JPG 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="1068" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Heracles as protector of Buddha, <a href="/wiki/Vajrapani" title="Vajrapani">Vajrapani</a>, 2nd-century <a href="/wiki/Gandhara" title="Gandhara">Gandhara</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mathura_Herakles.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Mathura Herakles, strangling the Nemean lion (Kolkata Indian Museum).[96]"><img alt="The Mathura Herakles, strangling the Nemean lion (Kolkata Indian Museum).[96]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Mathura_Herakles.jpg/90px-Mathura_Herakles.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Mathura_Herakles.jpg/135px-Mathura_Herakles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Mathura_Herakles.jpg/180px-Mathura_Herakles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="869" data-file-height="1924" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Mathura_Herakles" title="Mathura Herakles">Mathura Herakles</a>, strangling the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a> <a href="/wiki/Indian_Museum" title="Indian Museum">Indian Museum</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gandhara_Herakles,_Asia,_G33_South_Asia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Herakles under his lion skin and holding thunder (vajra), with Buddhist monks, art of Gandhara, British Museum"><img alt="Herakles under his lion skin and holding thunder (vajra), with Buddhist monks, art of Gandhara, British Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg/133px-Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg" decoding="async" width="133" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg/200px-Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg/266px-Gandhara_Herakles%2C_Asia%2C_G33_South_Asia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="4896" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Herakles under his lion skin and holding thunder (<a href="/wiki/Vajra" title="Vajra">vajra</a>), with Buddhist monks, <a href="/wiki/Art_of_Gandhara" class="mw-redirect" title="Art of Gandhara">art of Gandhara</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></div> </li> </ul> <p>Via the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Buddhist">Greco-Buddhist</a> culture, Heraclean symbolism was transmitted to the Far East. An example remains to this day in the <a href="/wiki/Nio_(Buddhism)" title="Nio (Buddhism)">Nio</a> guardian deities in front of Japanese Buddhist temples. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> also connected Heracles to <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenician</a> god <a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a> mentions in his work on the <a href="/wiki/Jugurthine_War" title="Jugurthine War">Jugurthine War</a> that the Africans believe Heracles to have died in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> where, his multicultural army being left without a leader, the <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Medes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian people">Persians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> who were once under his command split off and populated the Mediterranean coast of Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Temples dedicated to Heracles abounded all along the Mediterranean coastal countries. For example, the temple of <i>Heracles Monoikos</i> (i.e. the lone dweller), built far from any nearby town upon a promontory in what is now the <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Azur" class="mw-redirect" title="Côte d'Azur">Côte d'Azur</a>, gave its name to the area's more recent name, <a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a>. </p><p>The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other is, classically speaking, referred to as the <a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules" title="Pillars of Hercules">Pillars of Hercules/Heracles</a>, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses_of_Heracles_as_a_name">Uses of Heracles as a name</h2></div> <p>In various languages, variants of Heracles's name are used as a male given name, such as Iraklis (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Ηρακλής</span>) in Modern Greek and <a href="/wiki/Irakli" title="Irakli">Irakli</a> (<a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a>: <span title="Georgian-language text"><span lang="ka" style="font-style: normal;">ირაკლი</span></span>, <span style="font-size: smaller;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Georgian" title="Romanization of Georgian">romanized</a>:</span> <span lang="ka-Latn" style="font-style: italic;">irak'li</span>) in Georgian. </p><p>There are many teams around the world that have this name or have Heracles as their symbol. The most popular in <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> is <a href="/wiki/G.S._Iraklis_Thessaloniki" title="G.S. Iraklis Thessaloniki">G.S. Iraklis Thessaloniki</a>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Heracleum_(plant)" title="Heracleum (plant)">Heracleum</a></i> is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family <a href="/wiki/Apiaceae" title="Apiaceae">Apiaceae</a>. Some of the species in this genus are quite large. In particular, the giant hogweed (<i><a href="/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum" title="Heracleum mantegazzianum">Heracleum mantegazzianum</a></i>) is exceptionally large, growing up to 5 m tall. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genealogy">Genealogy</h2></div> <dl><dt>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"> <tbody><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td 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title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus">Sisyphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantalus" title="Tantalus">Tantalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Danaides" class="mw-redirect" title="The Danaides">The Danaides</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Figures resembling Heracles in other mythological traditions</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agilaz" class="mw-redirect" title="Agilaz">Agilaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beowulf" title="Beowulf">Beowulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C3%BA_Chulainn" title="Cú Chulainn">Cú Chulainn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilgamesh" title="Gilgamesh">Gilgamesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugalbanda" title="Lugalbanda">Lugalbanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLima2019" class="citation journal cs1">Lima, Rodrigo Araújo de (January 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/42964040">"Herakles/Melqart, the Greek façade of a Phoenician deity"</a>. <i>Revista Hélade: Dossiê Fenícios</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Revista+H%C3%A9lade%3A+Dossi%C3%AA+Fen%C3%ADcios&rft.atitle=Herakles%2FMelqart%2C+the+Greek+fa%C3%A7ade+of+a+Phoenician+deity&rft.date=2019-01&rft.aulast=Lima&rft.aufirst=Rodrigo+Ara%C3%BAjo+de&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F42964040&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DGRBM2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DGRBM2_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSchmitz1867" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080527153935/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0107.html">"Alceides"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(lexicographer)" title="William Smith (lexicographer)">William Smith</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology" title="Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</a></i>. Vol. 1. Boston: <a href="/wiki/Little,_Brown_and_Company" title="Little, Brown and Company">Little, Brown and Company</a>. p. 98. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0107.html">the original</a> on 27 May 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Alceides&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Biography+and+Mythology&rft.place=Boston&rft.pages=98&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown+and+Company&rft.date=1867&rft.aulast=Schmitz&rft.aufirst=Leonhard&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancientlibrary.com%2Fsmith-bio%2F0107.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheca</a></i> ii. 4. § 12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1.9.16-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-1.9.16_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-1.9.16_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Hercules">1.9.16</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Alcides-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Alcides_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Alcides_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">By his adoptive descent through Amphitryon, Heracles receives the epithet <b>Alcides</b>, as "of the line of <a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_(mythology)" title="Alcaeus (mythology)">Alcaeus</a>", father of Amphitryon. Amphitryon's own, mortal son was <a href="/wiki/Iphicles" title="Iphicles">Iphicles</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Burkert-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Burkert_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Burkert_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Burkert 1985, pp. 208–09</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burkert 1985, pp. 208–12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Loewen, Nancy: <i>Hercules</i>, p. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Fagles" title="Robert Fagles">Robert Fagles</a>'s translation, 1996:269.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSolmsen1981" class="citation journal cs1">Solmsen, Friedrich (1981). "The Sacrifice of Agamemnon's Daughter in Hesiod's Ehoeae". <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Journal_of_Philology" class="mw-redirect" title="The American Journal of Philology">The American Journal of Philology</a></i>. <b>102</b> (4): 353–58 [355]. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F294322">10.2307/294322</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/294322">294322</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+American+Journal+of+Philology&rft.atitle=The+Sacrifice+of+Agamemnon%27s+Daughter+in+Hesiod%27s+Ehoeae&rft.volume=102&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=353-58+355&rft.date=1981&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F294322&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F294322%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Solmsen&rft.aufirst=Friedrich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptol.</a> iv. 3. § 37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFVentura1988" class="citation journal cs1">Ventura, F. (1988). "Ptolemy's Maltese Co-ordinates". <i>Hyphen</i>. <b>V</b> (6): <span class="nowrap">253–</span>69.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Hyphen&rft.atitle=Ptolemy%27s+Maltese+Co-ordinates&rft.volume=V&rft.issue=6&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E253-%3C%2Fspan%3E69&rft.date=1988&rft.aulast=Ventura&rft.aufirst=F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/nu/103">Suda, nu,103</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DH%3Aentry+group%3D4%3Aentry%3Dherculaneum-geo">Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Herculaneum</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWiniarczyk2013" class="citation book cs1">Winiarczyk, Marek (2013). <i>The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene</i>. Walter de Gruyter. p. 30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3110278880" title="Special:BookSources/978-3110278880"><bdi>978-3110278880</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+%22Sacred+History%22+of+Euhemerus+of+Messene&rft.pages=30&rft.pub=Walter+de+Gruyter&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-3110278880&rft.aulast=Winiarczyk&rft.aufirst=Marek&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burkert 1985, p. 208.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBurkert1987" class="citation book cs1">Burkert, Walter (1987). <i>Ancient Mystery Cults</i>. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">75–</span>76. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674033870" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674033870"><bdi>978-0674033870</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Mystery+Cults&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E75-%3C%2Fspan%3E76&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-0674033870&rft.aulast=Burkert&rft.aufirst=Walter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:2-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFHornblowerSpawforthEidinow2014" class="citation book cs1">Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (2014). <i>The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 367. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198706779" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198706779"><bdi>978-0198706779</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Companion+to+Classical+Civilization&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pages=367&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0198706779&rft.aulast=Hornblower&rft.aufirst=Simon&rft.au=Spawforth%2C+Antony&rft.au=Eidinow%2C+Esther&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCarney2015" class="citation book cs1">Carney, Elizabeth (2015). <i>King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy</i>. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales. p. 66. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1910589083" title="Special:BookSources/978-1910589083"><bdi>978-1910589083</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=King+and+Court+in+Ancient+Macedonia%3A+Rivalry%2C+Treason+and+Conspiracy&rft.place=Swansea&rft.pages=66&rft.pub=The+Classical+Press+of+Wales&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1910589083&rft.aulast=Carney&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldhistory.org/Melqart/">"Melqart"</a>. <i>World History Encyclopedia</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=World+History+Encyclopedia&rft.atitle=Melqart&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldhistory.org%2FMelqart%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197:book=13:chapter=1:section=64">"Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1, section 64"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Strabo%2C+Geography%2C+Book+13%2C+chapter+1%2C+section+64&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0197%3Abook%3D13%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D64&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=ko/rnoy">"Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κόρνοψ"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Henry+George+Liddell%2C+Robert+Scott%2C+A+Greek-English+Lexicon%2C+%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%88&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dko%2Frnoy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=i)pokto/nos">"Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἰποκτόνος"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Henry+George+Liddell%2C+Robert+Scott%2C+A+Greek-English+Lexicon%2C+%E1%BC%B0%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BA%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Di%29pokto%2Fnos&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DB%3Aentry+group%3D10%3Aentry%3Dburaicus-bio-1">A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Buraicus</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Guide to Greece</i>, 4.32.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aelian, <i>Varia Historia</i>, 12.15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Aelian, <i>Varia Historia</i>, 5.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFThorburn2005" class="citation book cs1">Thorburn, John (2005). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/factsonfilecompa00ejoh_975"><i>The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama</i></a></span>. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/factsonfilecompa00ejoh_975/page/n563">555</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0816052028" title="Special:BookSources/978-0816052028"><bdi>978-0816052028</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Facts+on+File+Companion+to+Classical+Drama&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=555&rft.pub=Facts+on+File%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0816052028&rft.aulast=Thorburn&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffactsonfilecompa00ejoh_975&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPapadopoulou2005" class="citation book cs1">Papadopoulou, Thalia (2005). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/heracleseuripide00papa"><i>Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy</i></a></span>. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/heracleseuripide00papa/page/n94">81</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521851268" title="Special:BookSources/9780521851268"><bdi>9780521851268</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Heracles+and+Euripidean+Tragedy&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pages=81&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9780521851268&rft.aulast=Papadopoulou&rft.aufirst=Thalia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fheracleseuripide00papa&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLittlewood2004" class="citation book cs1">Littlewood, Cedric (2004). <i>Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 94. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199267613" title="Special:BookSources/978-0199267613"><bdi>978-0199267613</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Self-representation+and+Illusion+in+Senecan+Tragedy&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pages=94&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0199267613&rft.aulast=Littlewood&rft.aufirst=Cedric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pseudo-Apollodorus, <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Library</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D4%3Asection%3D8">2.4.8</a>; <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Seneca)" title="Hercules (Seneca)">Hercules Furens</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0003">24</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica_Orphica" class="mw-redirect" title="Argonautica Orphica">Argonautica Orphica</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/549#113">113</a>; <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogues_of_the_Gods" title="Dialogues of the Gods">Dialogues of the Gods</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pt.calameo.com/read/000107044fc0f01286992">Hermes and Helios</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Compare the two pairs of twins born to <a href="/wiki/Leda_(mythology)" title="Leda (mythology)">Leda</a> and the "double" parentage of <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diodorus Siculus's <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_Historica" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca Historica">Bibliotheca Historica</a></i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html">Book IV, Ch. 9</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andrew Ford, <i>Aristotle as Poet</i>, Oxford, 2011, p. 208 n. 5, citing, in addition to Prodicus/Xenophon, <a href="/wiki/Antisthenes" title="Antisthenes">Antisthenes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herodorus" title="Herodorus">Herodorus</a> (esp. <a href="/wiki/FGrHist" class="mw-redirect" title="FGrHist">FGrHist</a> 31 F 14), and (in the 4th century) <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s use of "Heracles as a figure for Socrates' life (and death?): <i>Apology</i> 22a, cf. <i>Theaetetus</i> 175a, <i>Lysis</i> 205c."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pausanias Χ 3.1, 36.5. <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemaeus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">Geogr. Hyph.</a></i> ΙΙ 184. 12. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. "Ἀντίκυρα"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:3-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:3_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:3_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSmith1870" class="citation book cs1">Smith, W., ed. (1870). <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography And Mythology</i>. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. pp. <span class="nowrap">393–</span>394. ark:/13960/t9f47mp93.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Biography+And+Mythology&rft.place=Boston&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E393-%3C%2Fspan%3E394&rft.pub=Little%2C+Brown%2C+and+Company&rft.date=1870&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Hunter, translator, <i>Jason and the Golden Fleece</i> (Oxford:Clarendon Press), 1993, pp. 31f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a>, i. 41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540:book=4:chapter=29">"Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I–V, book 4, chapter 29"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Diodorus+Siculus%2C+Bibliotheca+Historica%2C+Books+I%E2%80%93V%2C+book+4%2C+chapter+29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540%3Abook%3D4%3Achapter%3D29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540:book=4:chapter=29:section=3">"Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I–V, book 4, chapter 29, section 3"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Diodorus+Siculus%2C+Bibliotheca+Historica%2C+Books+I%E2%80%93V%2C+book+4%2C+chapter+29%2C+section+3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0540%3Abook%3D4%3Achapter%3D29%3Asection%3D3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/225#2.22.1">"ToposText"</a>. <i>topostext.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=topostext.org&rft.atitle=ToposText&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftopostext.org%2Fwork%2F225%232.22.1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1600.tlg001.perseus-grc2:2.22.1/">"Scaife Viewer | Imagines, Flavii Philostrati Opera Volume II"</a>. <i>scaife.perseus.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=scaife.perseus.org&rft.atitle=Scaife+Viewer+%26%23124%3B+Imagines%2C+Flavii+Philostrati+Opera+Volume+II&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscaife.perseus.org%2Freader%2Furn%3Acts%3AgreekLit%3Atlg1600.tlg001.perseus-grc2%3A2.22.1%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm">Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5</a> "Heracles did not wear the skin of the Nemean lion, but that of a certain Lion, one of the giants killed by Heracles whom he had challenged to single combat."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572:book=1:chapter=39:section=2">"Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books I-XX, book 1, chapter 39, section 2"</a>. <i>www.perseus.tufts.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.perseus.tufts.edu&rft.atitle=Dionysius+of+Halicarnassus%2C+Antiquitates+Romanae%2C+Books+I-XX%2C+book+1%2C+chapter+39%2C+section+2&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perseus.tufts.edu%2Fhopper%2Ftext%3Fdoc%3DPerseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0572%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D39%3Asection%3D2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span 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text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-dialogues_gods/1961/pb_LCL431.313.xml?result=2&rskey=dQhSx2">15</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAustin2011" class="citation book cs1">Austin, Norman (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2DE0_YEcsisC"><i>Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Press" title="University of Wisconsin Press">University of Wisconsin Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2DE0_YEcsisC&pg=PA191">191</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-299-28274-5" 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Advocate<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 February</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Golden+Age+of+Denial%3A+Hercules%2C+the+Bisexual+Demigod&rft.date=2013-08-14&rft.au=Christopher+Harrity&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.advocate.com%2Farts-entertainment%2Fart%2F2013%2F08%2F14%2Fgolden-age-denial-hercules-bisexual-demigod%3Fpg%3D8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Theocritus" title="Theocritus">Theocritus</a>, <i>Idyll</i> 13; <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius of Rhodes</a>, <i>Argonautica,</i> 1.1177–1357.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sosibius, in <a href="/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria" title="Hesychius of Alexandria">Hesychius of Alexandria</a>'s <i>Lexicon</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a> 2.5.8; <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaeus_Chennus" title="Ptolemaeus Chennus">Ptolemaeus Chennus</a>, 147b, in <a href="/wiki/Photios_I_of_Constantinople" title="Photios I of Constantinople">Photius</a>'s <i>Bibliotheca</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ptolemaeus Chennus, in Photius's <i>Bibliotheca</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ptolemaeus Chennus, 147b.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i>, 7. 17. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PC-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PC_66-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PC_66-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm#190">Ptolemaeus Chennus, <i>New History</i></a>, as summarized in <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Photius)" title="Bibliotheca (Photius)">Bibliotheca (Photius)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Photius" class="mw-redirect" title="Photius">Photius</a>, <i>Bibliotheca</i> excerpts, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/237#190.14">190.14</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ptolemaeus Chennus, 147e; <a href="/wiki/Philostratus_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Philostratus III">Philostratus</a>, <i>Heroicus</i> 696, per Sergent, 1986, p. 163.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hapo-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hapo_69-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gh.ciwanekurd.net/4177-who-were-hercules-male-lovers.html">"Who were Hercules' male lovers?"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 February</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Who+were+Hercules%27+male+lovers%3F&rft.pub=History+and+archeology+news+portal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgh.ciwanekurd.net%2F4177-who-were-hercules-male-lovers.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> on <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_Rhodius" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollonius Rhodius">Apollonius Rhodius</a>, <i>Argonautica</i>, 1. 1207</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> s. v. <i>Diomeia</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, <i>Bibliotheca</i>, 2. 4. 11 = 2. 7. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Fabulae</i> 162</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scholia on Pindar, Isthmian Ode 3 (4), 104</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFStatiusPollmann2004" class="citation book cs1">Statius, Publius Papinius; Pollmann, Karla (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=54liAAAAMAAJ&q=onites+son+of+heracles"><i>Statius, Thebaid 12: Introduction, Text and Commentary</i></a>. Schöningh. p. 210. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-506-71783-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-506-71783-2"><bdi>978-3-506-71783-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Statius%2C+Thebaid+12%3A+Introduction%2C+Text+and+Commentary&rft.pages=210&rft.pub=Sch%C3%B6ningh&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-3-506-71783-2&rft.aulast=Statius&rft.aufirst=Publius+Papinius&rft.au=Pollmann%2C+Karla&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D54liAAAAMAAJ%26q%3Donites%2Bson%2Bof%2Bheracles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> s. v. <i>Brettos</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> s. v. <i>Bargasa</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a> on <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i>Georgics</i> 2. 115</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dion._Hal._1._43-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dion._Hal._1._43_79-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dion._Hal._1._43_79-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a>, <i>Roman Antiquities</i>, 1. 43. 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Akelēs</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Solinus" title="Gaius Julius Solinus">Solinus</a>, <i>De mirabilia mundi</i>, 1. 15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>, 7. 655 ff</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, Life of <a href="/wiki/Sertorius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sertorius">Sertorius</a>, 9. 4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <i>Library of History</i>, 5. 24. 2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">So <a href="/wiki/Conon_(mythographer)" title="Conon (mythographer)">Conon</a>, <i>Narrationes</i>, 17. In Pseudo-Apollodorus, <i>Bibliotheca</i> 2. 6. 3 a daughter of Syleus, Xenodoce, is killed by Heracles</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a>, <i>Thebaid</i>, 6. 837, 10. 249</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> s. v. <i>Amathous</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a> s. v. <i>Gaza</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a>, <i>Thebaid</i>, 6. 346</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a> on <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s Eclogue 9. 30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a>, <i>Roman Antiquities</i>, 1. 50. 4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hyginus, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" title="Fabulae">Fabulae</a></i>, 162</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. <i>Phaistos</i>, Rhopalus is the son of Heracles and Phaestus his own son; in <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i>, 2. 6. 7, vice versa (Phaestus son, Rhopalus grandson)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/heryshef/">"Heryshef | Ancient Egypt Online"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Heryshef+%7C+Ancient+Egypt+Online&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fancientegyptonline.co.uk%2Fheryshef%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, James C. Harle, Yale University Press, 1994 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LwcBVvdqyBkC&pg=PA67">p. 67</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSallust1963" class="citation book cs1">Sallust (1963). <i>The Jugurthine War/The Conspiracy of Catiline</i>. Translated by S.A. Handford. Penguin Books. p. 54.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jugurthine+War%2FThe+Conspiracy+of+Catiline&rft.pages=54&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=1963&rft.au=Sallust&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morford, M. P. O.; Lenardon R. J. (2007). <i>Classical Mythology</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 865.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/heracles.html">Heracles at Theoi.com</a> Classical literature and art</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/heracles.html">Timeless Myths – Heracles</a> The life and adventure of Heracles, including his twelve labours.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Heracles1.html">Heracles, Greek Mythology Link</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031203111032/http://www.insecula.com/contact/A004087.html">Heracles (in French)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vollmer-mythologie.de/heracles/">Vollmer: Herkules (1836, in German)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Burkert" title="Walter Burkert">Burkert, Walter</a>, (1977) 1985. <i>Greek Religion</i> (Harvard University Press).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKerenyi1959" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Ker%C3%A9nyi" title="Károly Kerényi">Kerenyi, Karl</a> (1959). <i>The Heroes of the Greeks</i>. New York/London: Thames and Hudson.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Heroes+of+the+Greeks&rft.place=New+York%2FLondon&rft.pub=Thames+and+Hudson&rft.date=1959&rft.aulast=Kerenyi&rft.aufirst=Karl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBär2018" class="citation book cs1">Bär, Silvio (2018). <i>Herakles im griechischen Epos : Studien zur Narrativität und Poetizität eines Helden</i>. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-515-12206-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-515-12206-1"><bdi>978-3-515-12206-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Herakles+im+griechischen+Epos+%3A+Studien+zur+Narrativit%C3%A4t+und+Poetizit%C3%A4t+eines+Helden&rft.place=Stuttgart&rft.pub=Franz+Steiner+Verlag&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-3-515-12206-1&rft.aulast=B%C3%A4r&rft.aufirst=Silvio&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Brockliss, William. 2017. "The Hesiodic <i>Shield of Heracles</i>: The Text as Nightmarish Vision." <i>Illinois Classical Studies</i> 42.1: 1–19. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5406%2Filliclasstud.42.1.0001">10.5406/illiclasstud.42.1.0001</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/illiclasstud.42.1.0001">10.5406/illiclasstud.42.1.0001</a>.</li> <li>Burkert, Walter. 1982. "Heracles and the Master of Animals." In <i>Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual</i>, 78–98. Sather Classical Lectures 47. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFrade2015" class="citation book cs1">Frade, Sofia (2015). <i>Heracles and Athenian propaganda: politics, imagery and drama</i>. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781472505590" title="Special:BookSources/9781472505590"><bdi>9781472505590</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Heracles+and+Athenian+propaganda%3A+politics%2C+imagery+and+drama&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Publishing+Ltd&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9781472505590&rft.aulast=Frade&rft.aufirst=Sofia&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHeracles" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Haubold, Johannes. 2005. "Heracles in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women." In <i>The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions.</i> Edited by Richard Hunter, 85–98. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.</li> <li>Karanika, Andromache. 2011. "The End of the Nekyia: Odysseus, Heracles, and the Gorgon in the Underworld." <i>Arethusa</i> 44.1: 1–27.</li> <li>Padilla, Mark W. 1998. "Herakles and Animals in the Origins of Comedy and Satyr Drama". In <i>Le Bestiaire d'Héraclès: IIIe Rencontre héracléenne</i>, edited by <a href="/wiki/Corinne_Bonnet" title="Corinne Bonnet">Corinne Bonnet</a>, Colette Jourdain-Annequin, and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, 217–30. Kernos Suppl. 7. Liège: Centre International d'Etude de la Religion Grecque Antique.</li> <li>Padilla, Mark W. 1998. "The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece: Survey and Profile". Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.</li> <li>Papadimitropoulos, Loukas. 2008. "Heracles as Tragic Hero." Classical World 101.2: 131–38. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fclw.2008.0015">10.1353/clw.2008.0015</a></li> <li>Papadopoulou, Thalia. 2005. <i>Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy.</i> Cambridge Classical Studies. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.</li> <li>Segal, Charles Paul. 1961. "The Character and Cults of Dionysus and the Unity of the <i>Frogs</i>." <i>Harvard Studies in Classical Philology</i> 65:207–42. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F310837">10.2307/310837</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/310837">310837</a>.</li> <li>Stafford, Emma. 2012. <i>Herakles. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.</i> New York: Routledge.</li> <li>Strid, Ove. 2013. "The Homeric Prefiguration of Sophocles' Heracles." <i>Hermes</i> 141.4: 381–400. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43652880">43652880</a>.</li> <li>Woodford, Susan. 1971. "Cults of Herakles in Attica." In <i>Studies Presented to George M. A. Hanfmann.</i> Edited by David Gordon Mitten, John Griffiths Pedley, and Jane Ayer Scott, 211–25. Monographs in Art and Archaeology 2. Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.</li> <li>Euripides. The Children of Herakles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.</li> <li>Euripides. Heracles. England: <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Barlow" title="Shirley Barlow">Shirley A. Barlow</a>, 1996. Greek Version: Oxford University Press, 1981.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_sources">Primary sources</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i>Odyssey</i>, 12.072 (7th century BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Women_of_Trachis" title="Women of Trachis">Women of Trachis</a></i> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 450 BCE</span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i> (416 BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theocritus" title="Theocritus">Theocritus</a>, <i>Idylls</i>, 13 (350–310 BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callimachus" title="Callimachus">Callimachus</a>, <i>Aetia (Causes)</i>, 24. Thiodamas the Dryopian, Fragments, 160. Hymn to Artemis (310–250? BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollonios_Rhodios" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollonios Rhodios">Apollonios Rhodios</a>, <i>Argonautika</i>, I. 1175–1280 (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 250 BCE</span>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Apollodorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudo-Apollodorus">Pseudo-Apollodorus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheca</a></i> 1.9.19, 2.7.7 (140 BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextus_Propertius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Propertius">Sextus Propertius</a>, <i>Elegies</i>, i.20.17ff (50–15 BCE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> (8 CE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Ibis</i>, 488 (8–18 CE)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Valerius_Flaccus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Valerius Flaccus">Gaius Valerius Flaccus</a>, <i>Argonautica</i>, I.110, III.535, 560, IV.1–57 (1st century)</li> <li>Hyginus, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" title="Fabulae">Fables</a></i>, 14. Argonauts Assembled (1st century)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a>. Dialogues of the Dead. Dialogues of the Sea-Gods. Dialogues of the Gods. Dialogues of the Courtesans. Translated by M. D. MacLeod. Loeb Classical Library 431. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philostratus_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Philostratus the Elder">Philostratus the Elder</a>, <i>Images</i>, ii.24 Thiodamas (170–245)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Vatican_Mythographer" class="mw-redirect" title="First Vatican Mythographer">First Vatican Mythographer</a>, 49. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Mystery religions<br />and sacred mysteries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(region)" title="Arcadia (region)">Arcadian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries" title="Dionysian Mysteries">Dionysian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imbros" title="Imbros">Imbrian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphism" title="Orphism">Orphism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries#Samothracian_Mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Samothracian Mysteries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/New_religious_movement" title="New religious movement">New religious movements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Discordianism" title="Discordianism">Discordianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feraferia" title="Feraferia">Feraferia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaianism" title="Gaianism">Gaianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)" title="Hellenism (modern religion)">Hellenism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Religious practice</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Worship <br />/ rituals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphidromia" title="Amphidromia">Amphidromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arotoi_Hieroi" title="Arotoi Hieroi">Arotoi Hieroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astragalomancy" title="Astragalomancy">Astragalomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptes" title="Baptes">Baptes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cult_of_Artemis_at_Brauron" title="Cult of Artemis at Brauron">Cult of Artemis at Brauron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daduchos" title="Daduchos">Daduchos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_divination" title="Greek divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_funeral_and_burial_practices" title="Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices">Funeral and burial practices</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Funeral_oration_(ancient_Greece)" title="Funeral oration (ancient Greece)">Funeral oration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Greco-Roman mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero cult</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hero%C3%B6n" title="Heroön">Heroön</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierophany" title="Hierophany">Hierophany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieros_gamos" title="Hieros gamos">Hieros gamos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Hymns_in_ancient_Greek" title="Category:Hymns in ancient Greek">Hymns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incubation_(ritual)" title="Incubation (ritual)">Incubation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komos" title="Komos">Komos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nekyia" title="Nekyia">Nekyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omophagia" title="Omophagia">Omophagia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgia" title="Orgia">Orgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panegyris" title="Panegyris">Panegyris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">Sacrifice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice#Ancient_Greece" title="Animal sacrifice">Animal sacrifice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hecatomb" title="Hecatomb">Hecatomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)#Greek_sacrifice" title="Holocaust (sacrifice)">Holocaust</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libation#Ancient_Greece" title="Libation">Libation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharmakos" title="Pharmakos">Pharmakos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Votive_offering" title="Votive offering">Votive offering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece" title="Theatre of ancient Greece">Theatre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious<br />offices</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphictyonic_league" title="Amphictyonic league">Amphictyonic league</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archon_basileus" title="Archon basileus">Archon basileus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basilinna" title="Basilinna">Basilinna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerarai" title="Gerarai">Gerarai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiereia" title="Hiereia">Hiereia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierophant" title="Hierophant">Hierophant</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hierophylakes" title="Hierophylakes">Hierophylakes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iatromantis" title="Iatromantis">Iatromantis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanephoros" title="Kanephoros">Kanephoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystagogue" title="Mystagogue">Mystagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sibyl" title="Sibyl">Sibyl</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiasus" title="Thiasus">Thiasus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious<br />objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baetyl" title="Baetyl">Baetyl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_sculpture#Cult_images" title="Ancient Greek sculpture">Cult image</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chryselephantine_sculpture" title="Chryselephantine sculpture">Chryselephantine sculpture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xoanon" title="Xoanon">Xoanon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_terracotta_figurines" title="Greek terracotta figurines">Greek terracotta figurines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kernos" title="Kernos">Kernos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kykeon" title="Kykeon">Kykeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loutrophoros" title="Loutrophoros">Loutrophoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">Omphalos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panathenaic_amphora" title="Panathenaic amphora">Panathenaic amphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyton" title="Rhyton">Rhyton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrificial_tripod" title="Sacrificial tripod">Sacrificial tripod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sceptre#Greco-Roman_world" title="Sceptre">Sceptre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thymiaterion" title="Thymiaterion">Thymiaterion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world" title="Magic in the Greco-Roman world">Magic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apotropaic_magic" title="Apotropaic magic">Apotropaic magic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curse_tablet" title="Curse tablet">Curse tablet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_divination" title="Greek divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">Greek Magical Papyri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermeticism" title="Hermeticism">Hermeticism</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hermetica" title="Hermetica">Hermetica</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromancy#Antiquity" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philia_(Greco-Roman_magic)" title="Philia (Greco-Roman magic)">Philia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Festivals <br />/ feasts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Actia" title="Actia">Actia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adonia" title="Adonia">Adonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agrionia" title="Agrionia">Agrionia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphidromia" title="Amphidromia">Amphidromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthesteria" title="Anthesteria">Anthesteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apellai" title="Apellai">Apellai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apaturia" title="Apaturia">Apaturia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodisia" title="Aphrodisia">Aphrodisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrhephoria" title="Arrhephoria">Arrhephoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ascolia" title="Ascolia">Ascolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bendidia" title="Bendidia">Bendidia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boedromia" title="Boedromia">Boedromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brauron" title="Brauron">Brauronia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buphonia" title="Buphonia">Buphonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalceia" title="Chalceia">Chalceia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meilichios" title="Meilichios">Diasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delia_(festival)" title="Delia (festival)">Delia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphinia" title="Delphinia">Delphinia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysia" title="Dionysia">Dionysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecdysia" title="Ecdysia">Ecdysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elaphebolia" title="Elaphebolia">Elaphebolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamelia" title="Gamelia">Gamelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halieia" title="Halieia">Halieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haloa" title="Haloa">Haloa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracleia_(festival)" title="Heracleia (festival)">Heracleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaea_(festival)" title="Hermaea (festival)">Hermaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieromenia" title="Hieromenia">Hieromenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kronia" title="Kronia">Kronia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenaia" title="Lenaia">Lenaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnesia_on_the_Maeander" title="Magnesia on the Maeander">Leucophryna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lykaia" title="Lykaia">Lykaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metageitnia" title="Metageitnia">Metageitnia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munichia_(festival)" title="Munichia (festival)">Munichia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oschophoria" title="Oschophoria">Oschophoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamboeotia" title="Pamboeotia">Pamboeotia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandia_(festival)" title="Pandia (festival)">Pandia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plynteria" title="Plynteria">Plynteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaieia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemaieia">Ptolemaieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyanopsia" title="Pyanopsia">Pyanopsia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skira" title="Skira">Skira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synoikia" title="Synoikia">Synoikia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soteria_(festival)" title="Soteria (festival)">Soteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tauropolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tauropolia">Tauropolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thargelia" title="Thargelia">Thargelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseia" title="Theseia">Theseia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thesmophoria" title="Thesmophoria">Thesmophoria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agon" title="Agon">Agon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panathenaic_Games" title="Panathenaic Games">Panathenaic Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhieia" title="Rhieia">Rhieia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Panhellenic_Games" title="Panhellenic Games">Panhellenic Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games" title="Ancient Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraean_Games" title="Heraean Games">Heraean Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythian_Games" title="Pythian Games">Pythian Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemean_Games" title="Nemean Games">Nemean Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isthmian_Games" title="Isthmian Games">Isthmian Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actia" title="Actia">Actia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Sacred places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_temple" title="Ancient Greek temple">Temples</a> /<br /> <a href="/wiki/Sanctuaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctuaries">sanctuaries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asclepieion" title="Asclepieion">Asclepieion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphinion" title="Delphinion">Delphinion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraeum" title="Mithraeum">Mithraeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron" title="Necromanteion of Acheron">Necromanteion of Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymphaeum" title="Nymphaeum">Nymphaeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panionium" title="Panionium">Panionium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthenon" title="Parthenon">Parthenon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion" title="Ploutonion">Ploutonion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesterion" title="Telesterion">Telesterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temenos" title="Temenos">Temenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis" title="Temple of Artemis">Temple of Artemis, Ephesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Zeus,_Olympia" title="Temple of Zeus, Olympia">Temple of Zeus, Olympia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oracles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphiareion_of_Oropos" title="Amphiareion of Oropos">Amphiareion of Oropos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aornum" title="Aornum">Aornum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claros" title="Claros">Claros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didyma" title="Didyma">Didyma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodona" title="Dodona">Dodona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyaneae" title="Cyaneae">Oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus at Cyaneae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptoion" title="Ptoion">Oracle of Apollo at Ptoion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikaros_(Failaka_Island)" title="Ikaros (Failaka Island)">Oracle of Artemis at Ikaros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Puerto_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa" title="El Puerto de Santa María">Oracle of Menestheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctuary_of_the_Great_Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctuary of the Great Gods">Sanctuary of the Great Gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tegyra" title="Tegyra">Tegyra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mountains</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cretea" title="Cretea">Cretea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ida_(Crete)" title="Mount Ida (Crete)">Mount Ida (Crete)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ida_(Turkey)" title="Mount Ida (Turkey)">Mount Ida (Turkey)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Lykaion" title="Mount Lykaion">Mount Lykaion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Olympus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Caves</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Zeus,_Ayd%C4%B1n" title="Cave of Zeus, Aydın">Cave of Zeus, Aydın</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Pan_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Cave of Pan (disambiguation)">Caves of Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychro_Cave" title="Psychro Cave">Psychro Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vari_Cave" title="Vari Cave">Vari Cave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Islands</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Snake_Island_(Ukraine)" title="Snake Island (Ukraine)">Island of Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islands_of_Diomedes" title="Islands of Diomedes">Islands of Diomedes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Springs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castalian_Spring" title="Castalian Spring">Castalian Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippocrene" title="Hippocrene">Hippocrene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierian_Spring" title="Pierian Spring">Pierian Spring</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athenian_sacred_ships" title="Athenian sacred ships">Athenian sacred ships</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paralus_(ship)" title="Paralus (ship)">Paralus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Salaminia" title="Salaminia">Salaminia</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elefsina" title="Elefsina">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiera_Orgas" title="Hiera Orgas">Hiera Orgas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanathos" title="Kanathos">Kanathos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Greece" title="Olympia, Greece">Olympia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Way" title="Sacred Way">Sacred Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Dionysus" title="Theatre of Dionysus">Theatre of Dionysus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#cef2e0;"><div id="Myths_and_mythology245" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Myths and <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">mythology</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Deities</a> <br />(<a href="/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods" title="Family tree of the Greek gods">Family tree</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_primordial_deities" title="Greek primordial deities">Primordial deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aether_(mythology)" title="Aether (mythology)">Aether</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananke" title="Ananke">Ananke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaos_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaos (mythology)">Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronos" title="Chronos">Chronos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus" title="Erebus">Erebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemera" title="Hemera">Hemera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyx" title="Nyx">Nyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phanes" title="Phanes">Phanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontus_(mythology)" title="Pontus (mythology)">Pontus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalassa" title="Thalassa">Thalassa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)" title="Uranus (mythology)">Uranus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Titans" title="Titans">Titans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">First generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coeus" title="Coeus">Coeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crius" title="Crius">Crius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cronus" title="Cronus">Cronus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(Titan)" title="Hyperion (Titan)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapetus" title="Iapetus">Iapetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnemosyne" title="Mnemosyne">Mnemosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanus" title="Oceanus">Oceanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_(Titaness)" title="Phoebe (Titaness)">Phoebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(mythology)" title="Rhea (mythology)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(mythology)" title="Tethys (mythology)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia" title="Theia">Theia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Second generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteria" title="Asteria">Asteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraeus" title="Astraeus">Astraeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos" title="Eos">Eos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimetheus" title="Epimetheus">Epimetheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leto" title="Leto">Leto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menoetius" title="Menoetius">Menoetius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metis_(mythology)" title="Metis (mythology)">Metis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Titan)" title="Pallas (Titan)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perses_(Titan)" title="Perses (Titan)">Perses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selene" title="Selene">Selene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Third generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperus" title="Hesperus">Hesperus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phosphorus_(morning_star)" title="Phosphorus (morning star)">Phosphorus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Twelve Olympians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hestia" title="Hestia">Hestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_water_deities" title="Greek water deities">Water deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_(deity)" title="Alpheus (deity)">Alpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceto" title="Ceto">Ceto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glaucus" title="Glaucus">Glaucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naiad" title="Naiad">Naiads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereid" class="mw-redirect" title="Nereid">Nereids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanids" title="Oceanids">Oceanids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phorcys" title="Phorcys">Phorcys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potamides" title="Potamides">Potamides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_gods_(Greek_mythology)" title="River gods (Greek mythology)">River gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scamander" title="Scamander">Scamander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaumas" title="Thaumas">Thaumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(mythology)" title="Triton (mythology)">Triton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Love deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Erotes10" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Erotes" title="Erotes">Erotes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anteros" title="Anteros">Anteros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedylogos" title="Hedylogos">Hedylogos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotes#Himeros" title="Erotes">Himeros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymen_(god)" title="Hymen (god)"> Hymen/Hymenaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotes#Pothos" title="Erotes">Pothos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphroditus" title="Aphroditus">Aphroditus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philotes" title="Philotes">Philotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peitho" title="Peitho">Peitho</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">War deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adrestia" class="mw-redirect" title="Adrestia">Adrestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alala" title="Alala">Alala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alke" title="Alke">Alke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphillogiai" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphillogiai">Amphillogiai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Androktasiai" title="Androktasiai">Androktasiai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bia_(mythology)" title="Bia (mythology)">Bia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deimos_(deity)" title="Deimos (deity)">Deimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyalius" title="Enyalius">Enyalius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyo" title="Enyo">Enyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gynaecothoenas" class="mw-redirect" title="Gynaecothoenas">Gynaecothoenas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homados" title="Homados">Homados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hysminai" title="Hysminai">Hysminai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ioke_(mythology)" title="Ioke (mythology)">Ioke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keres" title="Keres">Keres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kratos_(mythology)" title="Kratos (mythology)">Kratos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kydoimos" title="Kydoimos">Kydoimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma_(goddess)" title="Ma (goddess)">Ma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machai" title="Machai">Machai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" title="Nike (mythology)">Nike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palioxis" title="Palioxis">Palioxis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Titan)" title="Pallas (Titan)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perses_(Titan)" title="Perses (Titan)">Perses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)" title="Phobos (mythology)">Phobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phonoi" title="Phonoi">Phonoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemos" title="Polemos">Polemos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proioxis" title="Proioxis">Proioxis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Chthonic_deities" title="Chthonic deities">Chthonic deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Psychopomps15" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Psychopomp" title="Psychopomp">Psychopomps</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charon" title="Charon">Charon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermanubis" title="Hermanubis">Hermanubis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanatos" title="Thanatos">Thanatos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angelos_(mythology)" title="Angelos (mythology)">Angelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabeiri" title="Cabeiri">Cabeiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)" title="Pluto (mythology)">Pluto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypnos" title="Hypnos">Hypnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keres" title="Keres">Keres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampad" class="mw-redirect" title="Lampad">Lampad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melino%C3%AB" title="Melinoë">Melinoë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zagreus" title="Zagreus">Zagreus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Health deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aceso" title="Aceso">Aceso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegle_(mythology)" title="Aegle (mythology)">Aegle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darrhon" title="Darrhon">Darrhon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epione" title="Epione">Epione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygieia" title="Hygieia">Hygieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iaso" title="Iaso">Iaso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paean_(god)" title="Paean (god)">Paean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panacea" title="Panacea">Panacea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesphorus_(mythology)" title="Telesphorus (mythology)">Telesphorus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sleep deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Empusa" title="Empusa">Empusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epiales" title="Epiales">Epiales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypnos" title="Hypnos">Hypnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasithea" title="Pasithea">Pasithea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oneiros" title="Oneiros">Oneiroi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Messenger deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angelia" title="Angelia">Angelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arke" title="Arke">Arke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)">Iris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Trickster deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apate" title="Apate">Apate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Momus" title="Momus">Momus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Magic deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasipha%C3%AB" title="Pasiphaë">Pasiphaë</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Other major deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anemoi" title="Anemoi">Anemoi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boreas_(god)" title="Boreas (god)">Boreas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurus" title="Eurus">Eurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notus" title="Notus">Notus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephyrus" title="Zephyrus">Zephyrus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azone" title="Azone">Azone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysaor" title="Chrysaor">Chrysaor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes">Erinyes</a> (Furies)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Muses" title="Muses">Muses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemesis" title="Nemesis">Nemesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_(god)" title="Pan (god)">Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelus" title="Zelus">Zelus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Heroes / <br />heroines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Individuals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abderus" title="Abderus">Abderus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actaeon" title="Actaeon">Actaeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Great" title="Ajax the Great">Ajax the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Lesser" title="Ajax the Lesser">Ajax the Lesser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Academus" title="Academus">Akademos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphiaraus" title="Amphiaraus">Amphiaraus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antilochus" class="mw-redirect" title="Antilochus">Antilochus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autolycus" title="Autolycus">Autolycus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon">Bellerophon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouzyges" title="Bouzyges">Bouzyges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadmus" title="Cadmus">Cadmus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysippus_of_Elis" title="Chrysippus of Elis">Chrysippus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyamites" title="Cyamites">Cyamites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daedalus" title="Daedalus">Daedalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diomedes" title="Diomedes">Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Dioscuri</a> (Castor and Polydeuces)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echetlus" title="Echetlus">Echetlus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleusis_(mythology)" title="Eleusis (mythology)">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erechtheus" title="Erechtheus">Erechtheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunostus_(hero)" title="Eunostus (hero)">Eunostus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector" title="Hector">Hector</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icarus" title="Icarus">Icarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason" title="Jason">Jason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)" title="Narcissus (mythology)">Narcissus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)" title="Nestor (mythology)">Nestor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus">Orpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otrera" title="Otrera">Otrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandion_(hero)" title="Pandion (hero)">Pandion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peleus" title="Peleus">Peleus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelops" title="Pelops">Pelops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penthesilea" title="Penthesilea">Penthesilea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triptolemus" title="Triptolemus">Triptolemus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar_hunt#The_hunters" title="Calydonian boar hunt">Calydonian hunters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epigoni" title="Epigoni">Epigoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_against_Thebes" title="Seven against Thebes">Seven against Thebes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracles</a> <br />/ seers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aesacus" title="Aesacus">Aesacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleuas" title="Aleuas">Aleuas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphiaraus" title="Amphiaraus">Amphiaraus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphilochus_I_of_Argos" title="Amphilochus I of Argos">Amphilochus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ampyx" title="Ampyx">Ampyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anius" title="Anius">Anius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asbolus" title="Asbolus">Asbolus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakis" title="Bakis">Bakis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branchus" title="Branchus">Branchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calchas" title="Calchas">Calchas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnus" title="Carnus">Carnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carya_of_Laconia" title="Carya of Laconia">Carya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassandra" title="Cassandra">Cassandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elatus" title="Elatus">Elatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennomus" title="Ennomus">Ennomus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimenides" title="Epimenides">Epimenides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halitherses" title="Halitherses">Halitherses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helenus" class="mw-redirect" title="Helenus">Helenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iamus" title="Iamus">Iamus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idmon" title="Idmon">Idmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manto_(mythology)" title="Manto (mythology)">Manto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melampus" title="Melampus">Melampus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mopsus" title="Mopsus">Mopsus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munichus" title="Munichus">Munichus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phineus" title="Phineus">Phineus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyidus" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyidus">Polyeidos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polypheides" title="Polypheides">Polypheides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyl" title="Sibyl">Sibyls</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cimmerian_Sibyl" title="Cimmerian Sibyl">Cimmerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl" title="Cumaean Sibyl">Cumaean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphic_Sibyl" title="Delphic Sibyl">Delphic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erythraean_Sibyl" title="Erythraean Sibyl">Erythraean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellespontine_Sibyl" title="Hellespontine Sibyl">Hellespontine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Sibyl" title="Libyan Sibyl">Libyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persian_Sibyl" title="Persian Sibyl">Persian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrygian_Sibyl" title="Phrygian Sibyl">Phrygian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samian_Sibyl" title="Samian Sibyl">Samian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telemus" title="Telemus">Telemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theiodamas" title="Theiodamas">Theiodamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theoclymenus" title="Theoclymenus">Theoclymenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Other <br /> mortals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aegeus" title="Aegeus">Aegeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegisthus" title="Aegisthus">Aegisthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andromache" title="Andromache">Andromache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)" title="Andromeda (mythology)">Andromeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigone" title="Antigone">Antigone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augeas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briseis" title="Briseis">Briseis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassiopeia_(mother_of_Andromeda)" title="Cassiopeia (mother of Andromeda)">Cassiopeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creon_(king_of_Thebes)" title="Creon (king of Thebes)">Creon of Thebes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chryseis" title="Chryseis">Chryseis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysothemis" title="Chrysothemis">Chrysothemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damocles" title="Damocles">Damocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deidamia_(daughter_of_Lycomedes)" title="Deidamia (daughter of Lycomedes)">Deidamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deucalion" title="Deucalion">Deucalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electra" title="Electra">Electra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eteocles" title="Eteocles">Eteocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_(consort_of_Zeus)" title="Europa (consort of Zeus)">Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordias" title="Gordias">Gordias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecuba" title="Hecuba">Hecuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen of Troy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellen" title="Hellen">Hellen</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermione_(mythology)" title="Hermione (mythology)">Hermione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iphigenia" title="Iphigenia">Iphigenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismene" title="Ismene">Ismene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jocasta" title="Jocasta">Jocasta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laius" title="Laius">Laius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_peasants" title="Lycian peasants">Lycian peasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)" title="Lycaon (king of Arcadia)">Lycaon</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Maenad" title="Maenad">Maenads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memnon" title="Memnon">Memnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messapian_shepherds" title="Messapian shepherds">Messapian shepherds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midas" title="Midas">Midas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrrha" title="Myrrha">Myrrha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoptolemus" title="Neoptolemus">Neoptolemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niobe" title="Niobe">Niobe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes">Orestes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" title="Paris (mythology)">Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patroclus" title="Patroclus">Patroclus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penelope" title="Penelope">Penelope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philomela" title="Philomela">Philomela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Phoenix (son of Agenor)">Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polybus_of_Corinth" title="Polybus of Corinth">Polybus of Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polynices" title="Polynices">Polynices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">Priam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procne" title="Procne">Procne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrrha_(mythology)" title="Pyrrha (mythology)">Pyrrha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telemachus" title="Telemachus">Telemachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troilus" title="Troilus">Troilus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld" title="Greek underworld">Underworld</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Entrances to <br /> the underworld</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acheron" title="Acheron">Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocytus" title="Cocytus">Cocytus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eridanos_(river_of_Hades)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eridanos (river of Hades)">Eridanos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethe" title="Lethe">Lethe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegethon" title="Phlegethon">Phlegethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Styx</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lakes/swamps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acherusia" title="Acherusia">Acherusia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Avernus" title="Lake Avernus">Avernus Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lerna" title="Lerna">Lerna Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Caves</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Matapan" title="Cape Matapan">Cape Matapan</a></li> <li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Avernus" title="Lake Avernus">Lake Avernus</a></li> <li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Heraclea_Pontica" title="Heraclea Pontica">Heraclea Pontica</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Charoniums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Charonium at <a href="/wiki/Aornum" title="Aornum">Aornum</a></li> <li>Charonium at <a href="/wiki/Acharaca" title="Acharaca">Acharaca</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion" title="Ploutonion">Ploutonion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Ploutonion at <a href="/wiki/Acharaca" title="Acharaca">Acharaca</a></li> <li>Ploutonion at <a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion_at_Hierapolis" title="Ploutonion at Hierapolis">Ploutonion at Hierapolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Necromanteion (necromancy temple)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron" title="Necromanteion of Acheron">Necromanteion of Acheron</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elysium" title="Elysium">Elysium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus" title="Erebus">Erebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asphodel_Meadows" title="Asphodel Meadows">Fields of Asphodel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortunate_Isles" title="Fortunate Isles">Isles of the Blessed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld#Mourning_Fields" title="Greek underworld">Mourning Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Judges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeacus" title="Aeacus">Aeacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhadamanthus" title="Rhadamanthus">Rhadamanthus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Campe" title="Campe">Campe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Residents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anticlea" title="Anticlea">Anticlea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dana%C3%AFdes" title="Danaïdes">Danaïdes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurydice" title="Eurydice">Eurydice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ixion" title="Ixion">Ixion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocnus" title="Ocnus">Ocnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmoneus" title="Salmoneus">Salmoneus</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Shade_(mythology)" title="Shade (mythology)">Shades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus">Sisyphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantalus" title="Tantalus">Tantalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titans_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Titans (mythology)">Titans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tityos" title="Tityos">Tityos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Katabasis#Trip_into_the_underworld" title="Katabasis">Visitors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus">Orpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirithous" title="Pirithous">Pirithous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Psyche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Symbols/objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bident" title="Bident">Bident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap_of_invisibility" title="Cap of invisibility">Cap of invisibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charon%27s_obol" title="Charon's obol">Charon's obol</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Animals, daemons, <br />and spirits</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascalaphus_(son_of_Acheron)" title="Ascalaphus (son of Acheron)">Ascalaphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceuthonymus" title="Ceuthonymus">Ceuthonymus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurynomos_(daemon)" title="Eurynomos (daemon)">Eurynomos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menoetius" title="Menoetius">Menoetius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Mythical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_Greek_mythological_figures" title="Lists of Greek mythological figures">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_creatures" title="List of Greek mythological creatures">Mythological creatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mortals_in_Greek_mythology" title="List of mortals in Greek mythology">Mortals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_Greek_mythological_figures" title="List of minor Greek mythological figures">Minor figures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Trojan_War_characters" title="List of Trojan War characters">Trojan War characters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Minor spirits</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daemon (classical mythology)">Daemon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agathodaemon" title="Agathodaemon">Agathodaemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cacodemon" title="Cacodemon">Cacodaemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudaemon_(mythology)" title="Eudaemon (mythology)">Eudaemon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">Nymph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyr" title="Satyr">Satyr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beasts /<br /> creatures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">Centaur</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centaurides" title="Centaurides">Centaurides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ichthyocentaur" title="Ichthyocentaur">Ichthyocentaur</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclops" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclops">Cyclops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragons_in_Greek_mythology" title="Dragons in Greek mythology">Dragon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drakaina_(mythology)" title="Drakaina (mythology)">Drakaina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorgon" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorgon">Gorgon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpy" title="Harpy">Harpy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecatonchires" class="mw-redirect" title="Hecatonchires">Hecatonchires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippocampus_(mythology)" title="Hippocampus (mythology)">Hippocampus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrois" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyrois">Horses of Helios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamia" title="Lamia">Lamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)" title="Phoenix (mythology)">Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siren_(mythology)" title="Siren (mythology)">Siren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla">Scylla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charybdis" title="Charybdis">Charybdis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphinx" title="Sphinx">Sphinx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon">Typhon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Captured <br />/ slain by <br /> <a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">heroes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Calydonian boar">Calydonian boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerynian_Hind" class="mw-redirect" title="Cerynian Hind">Cerynian Hind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crommyonian_Sow" title="Crommyonian Sow">Crommyonian Sow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_boar" title="Erymanthian boar">Erymanthian boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalkotauroi" title="Khalkotauroi">Khalkotauroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur" title="Minotaur">Minotaur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthrus" title="Orthrus">Orthrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian birds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talos" title="Talos">Talos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teumessian_fox" title="Teumessian fox">Teumessian fox</a></li></ul> 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title="Korybantes">Korybantes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laestrygonians" title="Laestrygonians">Laestrygonians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapiths" title="Lapiths">Lapiths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotus-eaters" title="Lotus-eaters">Lotus-eaters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrmidons" title="Myrmidons">Myrmidons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pygmy_(Greek_mythology)" title="Pygmy (Greek mythology)">Pygmies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spartoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartoi">Spartoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telchines" title="Telchines">Telchines</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places <br />/ Realms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aethiopia" title="Aethiopia">Aethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ara_(constellation)#History" title="Ara (constellation)">Ara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colchis#In_mythology" title="Colchis">Colchis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erytheia" title="Erytheia">Erytheia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperborea" title="Hyperborea">Hyperborea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismarus_(Thrace)" title="Ismarus (Thrace)">Ismarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer%27s_Ithaca" title="Homer's Ithaca">Ithaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libya_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libya (mythology)">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nysa_(mythology)" title="Nysa (mythology)">Nysa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogygia" title="Ogygia">Ogygia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panchaia_(island)" title="Panchaia (island)">Panchaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegra_(mythology)" title="Phlegra (mythology)">Phlegra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scheria" title="Scheria">Scheria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythia" title="Scythia">Scythia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symplegades" title="Symplegades">Symplegades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartessos" title="Tartessos">Tartessos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themiscyra_(Pontus)" title="Themiscyra (Pontus)">Themiscyra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrinacia" class="mw-redirect" title="Thrinacia">Thrinacia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne" title="Apollo and Daphne">Apollo and Daphne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar_hunt" title="Calydonian boar hunt">Calydonian boar hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Eros and Psyche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris" class="mw-redirect" title="Judgment of Paris">Judgment of Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" title="Labours of Hercules">Labours of Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus_and_Eurydice" title="Orpheus and Eurydice">Orpheus and Eurydice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Returns_from_Troy" title="Returns from Troy">Returns from Troy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Wars</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amazonomachy" title="Amazonomachy">Amazonomachy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attic_War" title="Attic War">Attic War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centauromachy" class="mw-redirect" title="Centauromachy">Centauromachy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gigantomachy" class="mw-redirect" title="Gigantomachy">Gigantomachy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysiaca" title="Dionysiaca">Indian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theomachy" title="Theomachy">Theomachy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titanomachy" title="Titanomachy">Titanomachy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adamant" title="Adamant">Adamant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegis" title="Aegis">Aegis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrosia" title="Ambrosia">Ambrosia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apple_of_Discord" title="Apple of Discord">Apple of Discord</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Argo" title="Argo">Argo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_(mythology)" title="Dragon's teeth (mythology)">Dragon's teeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diipetes" title="Diipetes">Diipetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eidolon" title="Eidolon">Eidolon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galatea_(mythology)" title="Galatea (mythology)">Galatea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girdle_of_Aphrodite" title="Girdle of Aphrodite">Girdle of Aphrodite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_apple" title="Golden apple">Golden apple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Fleece" title="Golden Fleece">Golden Fleece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordian_knot" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordian knot">Gordian knot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpe" title="Harpe">Harpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ichor" title="Ichor">Ichor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labyrinth#Cretan_labyrinth" title="Labyrinth">Labyrinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotus_tree" title="Lotus tree">Lotus tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milk_of_Hera" title="Milk of Hera">Milk of Hera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moly_(herb)" title="Moly (herb)">Moly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necklace_of_Harmonia" title="Necklace of Harmonia">Necklace of Harmonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orichalcum" title="Orichalcum">Orichalcum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity)" title="Palladium (classical antiquity)">Palladium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panacea_(medicine)" title="Panacea (medicine)">Panacea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandora%27s_box" title="Pandora's box">Pandora's box</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petasos" title="Petasos">Petasos</a> (<a href="/wiki/Winged_helmet" title="Winged helmet">Winged helmet</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scheria#The_Phaeacian_ships" title="Scheria">Phaeacian ships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosopher%27s_stone" title="Philosopher's stone">Philosopher's stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_Achilles" title="Shield of Achilles">Shield of Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus" title="Shirt of Nessus">Shirt of Nessus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damocles" title="Damocles">Sword of Damocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talaria" title="Talaria">Talaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thunderbolt" title="Thunderbolt">Thunderbolt</a></li> <li><a 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<li>The <a href="/wiki/Ourea" title="Ourea">Ourea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontus_(mythology)" title="Pontus (mythology)">Pontus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)" title="Uranus (mythology)">Uranus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Titans" title="Titans">Titans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">The twelve <a href="/wiki/Titans" title="Titans">Titans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coeus" title="Coeus">Coeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crius" title="Crius">Crius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cronus" title="Cronus">Cronus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dione_(Titaness)" title="Dione (Titaness)">Dione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(Titan)" title="Hyperion (Titan)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapetus" title="Iapetus">Iapetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnemosyne" title="Mnemosyne">Mnemosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanus" title="Oceanus">Oceanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_(Titaness)" title="Phoebe (Titaness)">Phoebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(mythology)" title="Rhea (mythology)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(mythology)" title="Tethys (mythology)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia" title="Theia">Theia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Descendants of the Titans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteria" title="Asteria">Asteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraeus" title="Astraeus">Astraeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos" title="Eos">Eos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimetheus" title="Epimetheus">Epimetheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leto" title="Leto">Leto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menoetius" title="Menoetius">Menoetius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Titan)" title="Pallas (Titan)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perses_(Titan)" title="Perses (Titan)">Perses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selene" title="Selene">Selene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Olympian <br /> deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Twelve Olympians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hestia" title="Hestia">Hestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Olympian Gods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyo" title="Enyo">Enyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)">Iris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paean_(god)" title="Paean (god)">Paean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_(god)" title="Pan (god)">Pan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Muses" title="Muses">Muses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Daughters of <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calliope" title="Calliope">Calliope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clio" title="Clio">Clio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euterpe" title="Euterpe">Euterpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erato" title="Erato">Erato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melpomene" title="Melpomene">Melpomene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyhymnia" title="Polyhymnia">Polyhymnia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terpsichore" title="Terpsichore">Terpsichore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalia_(Muse)" title="Thalia (Muse)">Thalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urania" title="Urania">Urania</a></li></ul></li> <li>Daughters of <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollonis" title="Apollonis">Apollonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borysthenis" title="Borysthenis">Borysthenis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cephisso" title="Cephisso">Cephisso</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boeotia" title="Boeotia">Boeotian</a> Muses <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aoede" title="Aoede">Aoide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melete" title="Melete">Melete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mneme" title="Mneme">Mneme</a></li></ul></li> <li>Muses of the <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">Lyre</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hypate" title="Hypate">Hypate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mese_(mythology)" title="Mese (mythology)">Mese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nete_(mythology)" title="Nete (mythology)">Nete</a></li></ul></li> <li>Muses at <a href="/wiki/Sicyon" title="Sicyon">Sicyon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Polymatheia" title="Polymatheia">Polymatheia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Charites" title="Charites">Charites</a> (Graces)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aglaea" title="Aglaea">Aglaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euphrosyne" title="Euphrosyne">Euphrosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hegemone" title="Hegemone">Hegemone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasithea" title="Pasithea">Pasithea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalia_(Grace)" title="Thalia (Grace)">Thalia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Horae" title="Horae">Horae</a> (Hours)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dike_(mythology)" title="Dike (mythology)">Dike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eirene_(goddess)" title="Eirene (goddess)">Eirene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunomia" title="Eunomia">Eunomia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Children of <a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Styx</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bia_(mythology)" title="Bia (mythology)">Bia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kratos_(mythology)" title="Kratos (mythology)">Kratos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" title="Nike (mythology)">Nike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelus" title="Zelus">Zelus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_water_deities" title="Greek water deities">Water <br /> deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Sea deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benthesikyme" title="Benthesikyme">Benthesikyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brizo" title="Brizo">Brizo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calliste_(mythology)" title="Calliste (mythology)">Calliste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calypso_(mythology)" title="Calypso (mythology)">Calypso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceto" title="Ceto">Ceto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurybia_(mythology)" title="Eurybia (mythology)">Eurybia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glaucus" title="Glaucus">Glaucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leucothea" title="Leucothea">Leucothea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melicertes" title="Melicertes">Melicertes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerites_(mythology)" title="Nerites (mythology)">Nerites</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Nesoi" title="Nesoi">Nesoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanus" title="Oceanus">Oceanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phorcys" title="Phorcys">Phorcys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontus_(mythology)" title="Pontus (mythology)">Pontus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodos" title="Rhodos">Rhodos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(mythology)" title="Tethys (mythology)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalassa" title="Thalassa">Thalassa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaumas" title="Thaumas">Thaumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(mythology)" title="Triton (mythology)">Triton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Oceanids" title="Oceanids">Oceanids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acaste_(Oceanid)" title="Acaste (Oceanid)">Acaste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admete_(Oceanid)" title="Admete (Oceanid)">Admete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asia_(Oceanid)" title="Asia (Oceanid)">Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callirhoe_(Oceanid)" title="Callirhoe (Oceanid)">Callirhoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceto_(Greek_myth)" title="Ceto (Greek myth)">Ceto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clymene_(mother_of_Phaethon)" title="Clymene (mother of Phaethon)">Clymene (consort of Helios)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clymene_(wife_of_Iapetus)" title="Clymene (wife of Iapetus)">Clymene (wife of Iapetus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clytie_(Oceanid)" title="Clytie (Oceanid)">Clytie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dione_(Titaness)" title="Dione (Titaness)">Dione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodone_(mythology)" title="Dodone (mythology)">Dodone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_(Oceanid)" title="Doris (Oceanid)">Doris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Oceanid)" title="Electra (Oceanid)">Electra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurynome_(Oceanid)" title="Eurynome (Oceanid)">Eurynome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idyia" title="Idyia">Idyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melia_(consort_of_Apollo)" title="Melia (consort of Apollo)">Melia (consort of Apollo)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melia_(consort_of_Inachus)" title="Melia (consort of Inachus)">Melia (consort of Inachus)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metis_(mythology)" title="Metis (mythology)">Metis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perse_(mythology)" title="Perse (mythology)">Perse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philyra_(Oceanid)" title="Philyra (Oceanid)">Philyra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pleione_(mythology)" title="Pleione (mythology)">Pleione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plouto_(Oceanid)" class="mw-redirect" title="Plouto (Oceanid)">Plouto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Styx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesto_(mythology)" title="Telesto (mythology)">Telesto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia_(Oceanid)" title="Theia (Oceanid)">Theia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeuxo_(Oceanid)" title="Zeuxo (Oceanid)">Zeuxo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Nereids" title="Nereids">Nereids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amatheia_(mythology)" title="Amatheia (mythology)">Amatheia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphithoe_(mythology)" title="Amphithoe (mythology)">Amphithoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa_(mythology)" title="Arethusa (mythology)">Arethusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymatolege_(mythology)" title="Cymatolege (mythology)">Cymatolege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymo_(mythology)" title="Cymo (mythology)">Cymo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamene" title="Dynamene">Dynamene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acis_and_Galatea" title="Acis and Galatea">Galatea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galene_(mythology)" title="Galene (mythology)">Galene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protomedeia" title="Protomedeia">Protomedeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psamathe_(Nereid)" title="Psamathe (Nereid)">Psamathe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sao_(mythology)" title="Sao (mythology)">Sao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spio" title="Spio">Spio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalia_(Nereid)" title="Thalia (Nereid)">Thalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/River_gods_(Greek_mythology)" title="River gods (Greek mythology)">River gods</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achelous" title="Achelous">Achelous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_(deity)" title="Alpheus (deity)">Alpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anapus" title="Anapus">Anapus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asopus" title="Asopus">Asopus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asterion_(god)" title="Asterion (god)">Asterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axius_(mythology)" title="Axius (mythology)">Axius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caanthus" title="Caanthus">Caanthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cebren" title="Cebren">Cebren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cephissus_(mythology)" title="Cephissus (mythology)">Cephissus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enipeus_(deity)" title="Enipeus (deity)">Enipeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kladeos" title="Kladeos">Kladeos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meander_(mythology)" title="Meander (mythology)">Meander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nilus_(mythology)" title="Nilus (mythology)">Nilus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Numicus" title="Numicus">Numicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phyllis_(river_god)" title="Phyllis (river god)">Phyllis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peneus" title="Peneus">Peneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangarius_(mythology)" title="Sangarius (mythology)">Sangarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scamander" title="Scamander">Scamander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selemnus_(god)" title="Selemnus (god)">Selemnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simoeis" title="Simoeis">Simoeis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strymon_(mythology)" title="Strymon (mythology)">Strymon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;"><a href="/wiki/Naiad" title="Naiad">Naiads</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aegina_(mythology)" title="Aegina (mythology)">Aegina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achiroe" title="Achiroe">Achiroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aganippe_(naiad)" title="Aganippe (naiad)">Aganippe</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Anigrides" title="Anigrides">Anigrides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyra_(mythology)" title="Argyra (mythology)">Argyra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bistonis" title="Bistonis">Bistonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolbe" title="Bolbe">Bolbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caliadne" title="Caliadne">Caliadne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassotis" title="Cassotis">Cassotis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castalia" title="Castalia">Castalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleocharia" title="Cleocharia">Cleocharia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creusa_(Naiad)" title="Creusa (Naiad)">Creusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphne" title="Daphne">Daphne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drosera_(naiad)" title="Drosera (naiad)">Drosera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpina" title="Harpina">Harpina</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Ionides" title="Ionides">Ionides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismenis" title="Ismenis">Ismenis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larunda" title="Larunda">Larunda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilaea" title="Lilaea">Lilaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liriope_(nymph)" title="Liriope (nymph)">Liriope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melite_(naiad)" title="Melite (naiad)">Melite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metope_(mythology)" title="Metope (mythology)">Metope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minthe" title="Minthe">Minthe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moria_(nymph)" title="Moria (nymph)">Moria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nana_(Greek_mythology)" title="Nana (Greek mythology)">Nana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicaea_(mythology)" title="Nicaea (mythology)">Nicaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orseis" title="Orseis">Orseis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(daughter_of_Triton)" title="Pallas (daughter of Triton)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirene_(nymph)" title="Pirene (nymph)">Pirene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmacis" title="Salmacis">Salmacis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stilbe" title="Stilbe">Stilbe</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Thriae" title="Thriae">Thriae</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corycia" title="Corycia">Corycia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleodora_(nymph)" title="Cleodora (nymph)">Cleodora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melaina" title="Melaina">Melaina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiasa" title="Tiasa">Tiasa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Personifications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Children of <a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algos" class="mw-redirect" title="Algos">Algos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphillogiai" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphillogiai">Amphillogiai</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Androktasiai" title="Androktasiai">Androktasiai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/At%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Atë">Atë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(deity)" title="Dysnomia (deity)">Dysnomia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horkos" title="Horkos">Horkos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hysminai" title="Hysminai">Hysminai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethe_(daughter_of_Eris)" title="Lethe (daughter of Eris)">Lethe</a></li> <li>Logoi</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limos" title="Limos">Limos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machai" title="Machai">Machai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neikea" class="mw-redirect" title="Neikea">Neikea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phonoi" title="Phonoi">Phonoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ponos" title="Ponos">Ponos</a></li> <li>Pseudea</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Children of <a href="/wiki/Nyx" title="Nyx">Nyx</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apate" title="Apate">Apate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geras" title="Geras">Geras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypnos" title="Hypnos">Hypnos</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Keres" title="Keres">Keres</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Moirai" title="Moirai">Moirai</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atropos" title="Atropos">Atropos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clotho" title="Clotho">Clotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lachesis" title="Lachesis">Lachesis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Momus" title="Momus">Momus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moros" title="Moros">Moros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemesis" title="Nemesis">Nemesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oizys" title="Oizys">Oizys</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Oneiros" title="Oneiros">Oneiroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philotes" title="Philotes">Philotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanatos" title="Thanatos">Thanatos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achlys" title="Achlys">Achlys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adephagia" title="Adephagia">Adephagia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aergia" title="Aergia">Aergia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aidos" title="Aidos">Aidos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aion_(deity)" title="Aion (deity)">Aion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alala" title="Alala">Alala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alastor" title="Alastor">Alastor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aletheia" title="Aletheia">Aletheia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alke" title="Alke">Alke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amechania" title="Amechania">Amechania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anaideia" title="Anaideia">Anaideia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananke" title="Ananke">Ananke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelia" title="Angelia">Angelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apheleia" title="Apheleia">Apheleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arete_(mythology)" title="Arete (mythology)">Arete</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Arae" title="Arae">Arae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraea" title="Astraea">Astraea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caerus" title="Caerus">Caerus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronos" title="Chronos">Chronos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysus" title="Chrysus">Chrysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corus_(mythology)" title="Corus (mythology)">Corus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deimos_(deity)" title="Deimos (deity)">Deimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dike_(mythology)" title="Dike (mythology)">Dikaiosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyssebeia" title="Dyssebeia">Dyssebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eiresione" title="Eiresione">Eiresione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekecheiria" title="Ekecheiria">Ekecheiria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eulabeia_(mythology)" title="Eulabeia (mythology)">Eulabeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eupraxia_(mythology)" title="Eupraxia (mythology)">Eupraxia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebeia" title="Eusebeia">Eusebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ersa" title="Ersa">Ersa</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Erotes" title="Erotes">Erotes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anteros" title="Anteros">Anteros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedylogos" title="Hedylogos">Hedylogos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymen_(god)" title="Hymen (god)">Hymen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotes#Pothos" title="Erotes">Pothos</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gelos_(mythology)" title="Gelos (mythology)">Gelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedone" title="Hedone">Hedone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heimarmene" title="Heimarmene">Heimarmene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homados" title="Homados">Homados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homonoia_(mythology)" title="Homonoia (mythology)">Homonoia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horme" title="Horme">Horme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iacchus" title="Iacchus">Iacchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ioke_(mythology)" title="Ioke (mythology)">Ioke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kakia" title="Kakia">Kakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koalemos" title="Koalemos">Koalemos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kydoimos" title="Kydoimos">Kydoimos</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Litae" title="Litae">Litae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyssa" title="Lyssa">Lyssa</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Maniae" title="Maniae">Maniae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methe" title="Methe">Methe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nomos_(mythology)" title="Nomos (mythology)">Nomos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palioxis" title="Palioxis">Palioxis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peitharchia" title="Peitharchia">Peitharchia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peitho" title="Peitho">Peitho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penia" title="Penia">Penia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penthus" title="Penthus">Penthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepromene" title="Pepromene">Pepromene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pheme" title="Pheme">Pheme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)" title="Phobos (mythology)">Phobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrike" title="Phrike">Phrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phthonus" title="Phthonus">Phthonus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poena" title="Poena">Poine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemos" title="Polemos">Polemos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porus_(mythology)" title="Porus (mythology)">Poros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxidice" title="Praxidice">Praxidice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proioxis" title="Proioxis">Proioxis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prophasis" title="Prophasis">Prophasis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soter_(daimon)" title="Soter (daimon)">Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soteria_(mythology)" title="Soteria (mythology)">Soteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrasos" title="Thrasos">Thrasos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyche" title="Tyche">Tyche</a></li> <li>The Younger <a href="/wiki/Charites" title="Charites">Charites</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eucleia" title="Eucleia">Eucleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eupheme_(deity)" title="Eupheme (deity)">Eupheme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthenia" title="Euthenia">Euthenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philophrosyne" title="Philophrosyne">Philophrosyne</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Other deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Sky</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Anemoi" title="Anemoi">Anemoi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boreas_(god)" title="Boreas (god)">Boreas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurus" title="Eurus">Eurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notus" title="Notus">Notus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephyrus" title="Zephyrus">Zephyrus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperus" title="Hesperus">Hesperus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phosphorus_(morning_star)" title="Phosphorus (morning star)">Phosphorus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaethon" title="Phaethon">Phaethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrape_and_Bronte" title="Astrape and Bronte">Astrape and Bronte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aura_(mythology)" title="Aura (mythology)">Aura</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Hyades_(mythology)" title="Hyades (mythology)">Hyades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephele" title="Nephele">Nephele</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)" title="Pleiades (Greek mythology)">Pleiades</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alcyone_(Pleiad)" title="Alcyone (Pleiad)">Alcyone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sterope_(Pleiad)" title="Sterope (Pleiad)">Sterope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celaeno" title="Celaeno">Celaeno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Pleiad)" title="Electra (Pleiad)">Electra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maia" title="Maia">Maia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merope_(Pleiad)" title="Merope (Pleiad)">Merope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taygete" title="Taygete">Taygete</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirius_(mythology)" title="Sirius (mythology)">Sirius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tritopatores" title="Tritopatores">Tritopatores</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Agriculture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphaea" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphaea">Aphaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Despoina" title="Despoina">Despoina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunostus" title="Eunostus">Eunostus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opora_(mythology)" title="Opora (mythology)">Opora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philomelus" title="Philomelus">Philomelus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutus" title="Plutus">Plutus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Health</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aceso" title="Aceso">Aceso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epione" title="Epione">Epione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iaso" title="Iaso">Iaso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygieia" title="Hygieia">Hygieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paean_(god)" title="Paean (god)">Paean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panacea" title="Panacea">Panacea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesphorus_(mythology)" title="Telesphorus (mythology)">Telesphorus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Rustic <br />deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aetna_(nymph)" title="Aetna (nymph)">Aetna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agdistis" title="Agdistis">Agdistis</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Alseid" title="Alseid">Alseids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphictyonis" title="Amphictyonis">Amphictyonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristaeus" title="Aristaeus">Aristaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attis" title="Attis">Attis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britomartis" title="Britomartis">Britomartis</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Cabeiri" title="Cabeiri">Cabeiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comus" title="Comus">Comus</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Dryad" title="Dryad">Dryades</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erato_(dryad)" title="Erato (dryad)">Erato</a></li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Hamadryad" title="Hamadryad">Hamadryades</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chrysopeleia" title="Chrysopeleia">Chrysopeleia</a></li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Epimelides" title="Epimelides">Epimelides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecaterus" title="Hecaterus">Hecaterus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leuce_(mythology)" title="Leuce (mythology)">Leuce</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Maenad" title="Maenad">Maenades</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Meliae" title="Meliae">Meliae</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Nymphai_Hyperboreioi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nymphai Hyperboreioi">Nymphai Hyperboreioi</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Oread" title="Oread">Oreads</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Echo_(mythology)" title="Echo (mythology)">Echo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priapus" title="Priapus">Priapus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhapso" title="Rhapso">Rhapso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silenus" title="Silenus">Silenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telete" title="Telete">Telete</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexiares_and_Anicetus" title="Alexiares and Anicetus">Alexiares and Anicetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphroditus" title="Aphroditus">Aphroditus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arke" title="Arke">Arke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auxesia_(Greek_mythology)" title="Auxesia (Greek mythology)">Auxesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enodia" title="Enodia">Enodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyalius" title="Enyalius">Enyalius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palaestra_(mythology)" title="Palaestra (mythology)">Palaestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasipha%C3%AB" title="Pasiphaë">Pasiphaë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phanes" title="Phanes">Phanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sosipolis_(god)" title="Sosipolis (god)">Sosipolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link 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birds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Girdle of Hippolyte</a></li> <li>Far-away monsters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Cattle of Geryon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules" title="Pillars of Hercules">Pillars of Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperides#The_Eleventh_Labour_of_Heracles" title="Hesperides">Apples of the Hesperides</a>/<a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Heracles</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hercle" title="Hercle">Hercle</a></li> <li>Ercole</li> <li>Hercule</li> <li>Alcide</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a> (mother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megara_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megara (mythology)">Megara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a> (wives)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a> (children)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milk_of_Hera" title="Milk of Hera">Creation of Milky Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_at_the_crossroads" title="Hercules at the crossroads">Hercules at the crossroads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules" title="Labours of Hercules">Labours of Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_ancient_Rome" title="Hercules in ancient Rome">Hercules in ancient Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus" title="Shirt of Nessus">Shirt of Nessus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heracles_Papyrus" title="Heracles Papyrus">Heracles Papyrus</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_Heracles" title="Shield of Heracles">Shield of Heracles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Women" title="Catalogue of Women">Catalogue of Women</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Atl%C3%A0ntida" title="L'Atlàntida">L'Atlàntida</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Women_of_Trachis" title="Women of Trachis">Women of Trachis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Seneca)" title="Hercules (Seneca)">Hercules Furens</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Oetaeus" title="Hercules Oetaeus">Hercules Oetaeus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Labours_of_Hercules" title="The Labours of Hercules">The Labours of Hercules</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Wagoner" title="Hercules and the Wagoner">Hercules and the Wagoner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Art</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_lion_of_Nemea_(Louvre_Museum,_L_31_MN_B909)" title="Hercules and the lion of Nemea (Louvre Museum, L 31 MN B909)">Hercules and the lion of Nemea</a></i> (5th century BCE)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_of_the_Forum_Boarium" title="Hercules of the Forum Boarium">Hercules of the Forum Boarium</a></i> (2nd century BCE)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lansdowne_Heracles" title="Lansdowne Heracles">Lansdowne Heracles</a></i> (c. 125)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Hercules,_Dura-Europos" title="Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos">Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos</a> (c. 150–256)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farnese_Hercules" title="Farnese Hercules">Farnese Hercules</a></i> (216)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_slaying_Antaeus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules slaying Antaeus">Hercules slaying Antaeus</a></i> (c. 1460)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Deianira" title="Hercules and Deianira">Hercules and Deianira</a></i> (c. 1470)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Hydra_(Pollaiolo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiolo)">Hercules and the Hydra</a></i> (c. 1475)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Killing_the_Stymphalian_Birds" title="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds">Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds</a></i> (1500)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Antaeus" title="Hercules and Antaeus">Hercules and Antaeus</a></i> (c. 1500–1510)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Beccafumi)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Beccafumi)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (c. 1520–1525)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Antaeus_(Hans_Baldung)" title="Hercules and Antaeus (Hans Baldung)">Hercules and Antaeus</a></i> (1531)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Cacus" title="Hercules and Cacus">Hercules and Cacus</a></i> (1534)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way" title="The Origin of the Milky Way">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> (1575–1580)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Carracci)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Carracci)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (1596)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Omphale_(Rubens)" title="Hercules and Omphale (Rubens)">Hercules and Omphale</a></i> (1603)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Fighting_the_Nemean_Lion_(Zurbar%C3%A1n)" title="Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (Zurbarán)">Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Hydra_(Zurbar%C3%A1n)" title="Hercules and the Hydra (Zurbarán)">Hercules and the Hydra</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Separates_Mounts_Calpe_and_Abylla" title="Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla">Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_Hercules" title="The Death of Hercules">The Death of Hercules</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules%27s_Dog_Discovers_Purple_Dye" title="Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye">Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye</a></i> (1636)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_(Rubens)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Origin of the Milky Way (Rubens)">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> (1637)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Garden_of_the_Hesperides" title="Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides">Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides</a></i> (1638)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Landscape_with_Hercules_and_Cacus" title="Landscape with Hercules and Cacus">Landscape with Hercules and Cacus</a></i> (c. 1660)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Omphale_(Boucher)" title="Hercules and Omphale (Boucher)">Hercules and Omphale</a></i> (1732–1734)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertas_Americana" title="Libertas Americana">Libertas Americana</a> (1783)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sanctuary_of_Hercules_(B%C3%B6cklin)" title="The Sanctuary of Hercules (Böcklin)">The Sanctuary of Hercules</a></i> (1884)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Archer" title="Hercules the Archer">Hercules the Archer</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Achelous_and_Hercules" title="Achelous and Hercules">Achelous and Hercules</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twelve_Labors_of_Hercules_(Spafford)" title="The Twelve Labors of Hercules (Spafford)">The Twelve Labors of Hercules</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marian_Maguire" title="Marian Maguire">The Labors of Herakles</a></i> (2006–2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar" title="Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar">Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Nemean_Lion_(Klein)" title="Hercules and the Nemean Lion (Klein)">Hercules and the Nemean Lion</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opera</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ercole_amante" title="Ercole amante">Ercole amante</a></i> (1662)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alcide_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcide (opera)">Alcide</a></i> (1693)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ercole_su%27l_Termodonte" title="Ercole su'l Termodonte">Ercole su'l Termodonte</a></i> (1723)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Admeto" title="Admeto">Admeto</a></i> (1727)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La%C3%9Ft_uns_sorgen,_la%C3%9Ft_uns_wachen,_BWV_213" title="Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213">Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213</a></i> (1733)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Handel)" title="Hercules (Handel)">Hercules</a></i> (1744)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_nozze_d%27Ercole_e_d%27Ebe" title="Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe">Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe</a></i> (1747)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Handel)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Handel)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (1750)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercule_mourant" title="Hercule mourant">Hercule mourant</a></i> (1761)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Rouet_d%27Omphale" title="Le Rouet d'Omphale">Le Rouet d'Omphale</a></i> (1871)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9janire" title="Déjanire">Déjanire</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atl%C3%A1ntida_(opera)" title="Atlántida (opera)">Atlántida</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_vs._Vampires" title="Hercules vs. Vampires">Hercules vs. Vampires</a></i> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_Hercules" title="List of films featuring Hercules">Films</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Italian series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1958_film)" title="Hercules (1958 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Unchained" title="Hercules Unchained">Hercules Unchained</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goliath_and_the_Dragon" title="Goliath and the Dragon">Goliath and the Dragon</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Loves_of_Hercules" title="The Loves of Hercules">The Loves of Hercules</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Conquest_of_Atlantis" title="Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis">Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Haunted_World" title="Hercules in the Haunted World">Hercules in the Haunted World</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Valley_of_Woe" title="Hercules in the Valley of Woe">Hercules in the Valley of Woe</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fury_of_Hercules" title="The Fury of Hercules">The Fury of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules,_Samson_and_Ulysses" title="Hercules, Samson and Ulysses">Hercules, Samson and Ulysses</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_vs._Moloch" title="Hercules vs. Moloch">Hercules vs. Moloch</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Invincible" title="Hercules the Invincible">Hercules the Invincible</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_Rome" title="Hercules Against Rome">Hercules Against Rome</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_the_Sons_of_the_Sun" title="Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun">Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Hercules" title="The Triumph of Hercules">The Triumph of Hercules</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_His_Mighty_Challenge" title="Samson and His Mighty Challenge">Samson and His Mighty Challenge</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Tyrants_of_Babylon" title="Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon">Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Princess_of_Troy" title="Hercules and the Princess of Troy">Hercules and the Princess of Troy</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Avenger" title="Hercules the Avenger">Hercules the Avenger</a></i> (1965)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other European<br />live-action</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(film)" title="Herakles (film)">Herakles</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_the_Moon_Men" title="Hercules Against the Moon Men">Hercules Against the Moon Men</a></i> (1964)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">American films<br />live-action</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Warrior%27s_Husband" title="The Warrior's Husband">The Warrior's Husband</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Three_Stooges_Meet_Hercules" title="The Three Stooges Meet Hercules">The Three Stooges Meet Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film)" title="Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)">Jason and the Argonauts</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_New_York" title="Hercules in New York">Hercules in New York</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1983_film)" title="Hercules (1983 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Hercules" title="The Adventures of Hercules">The Adventures of Hercules</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(miniseries)" title="Jason and the Argonauts (miniseries)">Jason and the Argonauts</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Immortals_(2011_film)" title="Immortals (2011 film)">Immortals</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hercules" title="The Legend of Hercules">The Legend of Hercules</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(2014_film)" title="Hercules (2014 film)">Hercules</a></i> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Animated films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1995_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules (1995 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1997_film)" title="Hercules (1997 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_Zero_to_Hero" title="Hercules: Zero to Hero">Hercules: Zero to Hero</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Xena_%E2%80%93_The_Animated_Movie:_The_Battle_for_Mount_Olympus" title="Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus">Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules" title="The Mighty Hercules">The Mighty Hercules</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sons_of_Hercules" title="The Sons of Hercules">The Sons of Hercules</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mole_Men_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules">Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fire_Monsters_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules">Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules">Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys" title="Hercules: The Legendary Journeys">Hercules: The Legendary Journeys</a></i> (1995) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Amazon_Women" title="Hercules and the Amazon Women">Hercules and the Amazon Women</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Lost_Kingdom" title="Hercules and the Lost Kingdom">Hercules and the Lost Kingdom</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Circle_of_Fire" title="Hercules and the Circle of Fire">Hercules and the Circle of Fire</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Underworld" title="Hercules in the Underworld">Hercules in the Underworld</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Maze_of_the_Minotaur" title="Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur">Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur</a></i> (1994)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1998_TV_series)" title="Hercules (1998 TV series)">Hercules: The Animated Series</a></i> (1998) <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Arabian_Night" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules and the Arabian Night">Hercules and the Arabian Night</a>" (1999)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Hercules" title="Young Hercules">Young Hercules</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(miniseries)" title="Hercules (miniseries)">Hercules</a></i> (2005 miniseries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_(TV_series)" title="Atlantis (TV series)">Atlantis</a></i> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(comics)" title="Hercules (comics)">Comics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Hercules (Marvel Comics)">Hercules (Marvel Comics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(DC_Comics)" title="Hercules (DC Comics)">Hercules (DC Comics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Radical_Comics)" title="Hercules (Radical Comics)">Hercules (Radical Comics)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_Heracles" title="The Return of Heracles">The Return of Heracles</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1984_video_game)" title="Hercules (1984 video game)">Hercules</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Disney%27s_Hercules_(video_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney's Hercules (video game)">Disney's Hercules</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herc%27s_Adventures" title="Herc's Adventures">Herc's Adventures</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys#Video_game" title="Hercules: 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