The greatest hero of antiquity, a strong man even from his days in the cradle where his stepmother Hera first started to torment him. He is renowned for his labors and his affairs. He was involved in the quest for the Golden Fleece and in the rescue of Alcestis and Theseus, the theft of Cerberus (all three were adventures in Hades). His mother was Alcmene and his father Zeus.

See also:

Hercules Net Links
Hercules' Labors
Who Was Hercules?
Hercules Texts
Heraclides
Cerberus Glossary Entry
Megara Glossary entry
Theseus
Heroes and Legends

Aeneas Book VI Glossary Entries

Aeneas
Anchises
Cerberus
Charon
Deiphobus
Dido
Elysium/Elysian Fields
Furies
Hercules
Jupiter
Lethe
Misenus
Palinurus
Priam
Proserpine
Rhadamanthus
Sibyl
Sisyphus
Vergil

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