Heracles | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles


00:01:06 1 Origin
00:02:36 1.1 Hero or god
00:03:45 1.2 Christian chronology
00:05:12 1.3 Cult
00:07:55 2 Character
00:10:24 3 Mythology
00:10:33 3.1 Birth and childhood
00:14:07 3.2 Youth
00:15:42 3.3 Labours of Heracles
00:22:41 3.4 Further adventures
00:23:41 3.5 Omphale
00:24:31 3.6 Hylas
00:25:37 3.7 Rescue of Prometheus
00:26:10 3.8 Heracles' constellation
00:27:12 3.9 Heracles' sack of Troy
00:28:49 3.10 Colony at Sardinia
00:29:19 3.11 Other adventures
00:33:54 3.12 Death
00:36:29 4 Lovers
00:36:38 4.1 Women
00:36:46 4.1.1 Marriages
00:39:12 4.1.2 Affairs
00:41:08 4.2 Men
00:44:30 5 Children
00:46:24 5.1 Consorts and children
00:46:33 6 Heracles around the world
00:46:44 6.1 Rome
00:47:02 6.2 Egypt
00:47:44 6.3 Other cultures
00:49:13 7 Uses of Heracles as a name
00:50:11 8 Ancestry
00:50:22 9 See also



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Heracles ( HERR-ə-kleez; Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklês, Glory/Pride of Hēra, "Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) () or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs) () was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. 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 cult were adapted to Rome as well.