Heracles
| Heracles | |
|---|---|
| Gatekeeper o Olympus God o strenth, heroes, sports, athletes, heal, agricultur, fertility, trade, oracles an divine pertector o mankynd | |
 Ane o the maist famous depictions o Heracles, oreeginally bi Lysippos (Marble, Roman copy cried Hercules Farnese, 216 CE) | |
| Abode | Moont Olympus |
| Symbol | Club, Nemean Lion, Bae an Arraes |
| Personal Information | |
| Born | Thebes, Boeotia, Greece |
| Dee'd | Moont Oeta, Phocis, Greece |
| Consort | Hebe |
| Childer | Alexiares an Anicetus, Telephus, Hyllus, Tlepolemus |
| Parents | Zeus an Alcmene |
| Siblins | Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Helen o Troy, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, Iphicles, the Muses, the Graces |
| Roman equivalent | Hercules |
Heracles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklēs, frae Hēra, "Hera", an kleos, "glory"[1]), born Alcaeus[2] (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides[3] (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek meethology, the son o Zeus an Alcmene, foster son o Amphitryon[4] an great-grandson/hauf-brither (as thay are baith sired bi the god Zeus) o Perseus.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Becking, Bob, et al.. Dictionary of deities and demons. ed. Toorn, Karel van der. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 1999
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alceides". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 98. Archived frae the original on 27 Mey 2008. Retrieved 7 Julie 2016.
- ↑ Bibliotheca ii. 4. § 12
- ↑ Bi his adoptive strynd throu Amphitryon, Heracles receives the epithet Alcides, as "o the line o Alcaeus", faither o Amphitryon. Amphitryon's ain, mortal son wis Iphicles.
