Category:Herakles servers

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General information
Heracles (hɛrəkliz, HERRə-kleez, Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklês), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) was a in, the son of  and , foster son of. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god ) of. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a champion of the  against  monsters. In and the , he is known as , with whom the later , in particular  and , often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his were adapted to Rome as well.

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