Herkules
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/21214
- Name (English)
- Herkules
- Short name
- Heracles
- Short Description
- "Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ HERR-ə-kleez; Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklês, Glory/Pride of Hēra, "Hera"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) (/ælˈsiːəs/) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs) (/ælˈsaɪdiːz/) 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 19.10.2019)
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Ein olympisches Göttermahl
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Image: Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz - CC BY-NC-SA -
Gestürzter Herkules
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Image: Winckelmann-Museum Stendal - CC BY-NC-SA -
Albrecht Dürer: Herkules am Scheidewege
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Image: Städtisches Graphik-Kabinett Backnang - CC BY-NC-SA -
Wilhelmo Henrico Priniciplauriacum ob Fugatos Hostes et Republicam Restitutam
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA -
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA
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