Heracles

Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ HERR-ə-kleez; Greek: Ἡρακλῆς,
Hēraklês, Glory/Pride of Hēra, "Hera"), born Alcaeus or
Alcides was a divine hero. He is the son of Zeus and
Alcmene and foster son of Amphitryon. He was a great-
grandson and half-brother of Perseus. He was the greatest
of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor o
f 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. 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.
Category:Demigods
Category:Minor Deities
Category:Children of Zeus
Category:Heroes