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Hercules: Encyclopedia - Hercules
Hercules (also known as Alcides) was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the Roman name being a metath...
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Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - The Greek Legend Of Heracles
Heracles was born in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus (who took the guise of her husband Amphitryon). Heracles was conceived ov...
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Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - The Greek Legend Of Heracles
Heracles was born in the 13th century BC in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus (who took the guise of her husband Amphitryon). He...
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Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - Origin Of The Legend
The cult of Hercules may have been the first foreign one to be adopted in Rome; his most important shrine, the Ara Maxima, was in the ori...
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