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Hercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek hero Heracles, son of Zeus an the mortal Alcmena. His first wife was Megara and his second wife was Deianeira. When Hera found out about Zeus's illegitimate son, she placed two snakes in his bed to kill him. Hera was unsuccessful, as Heracles, being born with great strength strangled the snakes when he found them.

Trivia about hercules

  • In a play by Euripides, he goes mad & thinks he's tearing down the walls of Mycenae but destroys his own house
  • His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess
  • On Saturday morning, this Disney hero attends Prometheus Academy
  • When his earthly labors were over, his immortal part ascended to Mount Olympus & married Hebe
  • Cancer is the crab that attacked this hero who was battling the Hydra
  • The Disney movie about this hero includes his labor of defeating the monstrous Hydra
  • Handel's oratorio about him debuted in January 1745 (He never got to do a Xena spin-off)
  • Some say his 12 labors were penance for killing his wife Megara & their children
  • Dealing with a beastly triple-header was this man's famous twelfth labor
  • This hero's sixth labor involved cleaning the Augean stables, which were a disgusting mess
  • The globular cluster M13 is in this constellation that to us looks nothing like Kevin Sorbo
  • His 9th hurdle -- Hippolyta's girdle
  • This strongman performed his 12 labors during his 12 years of servitude to King Eurystheus
  • Cavalli's 17th century opera "Ercole Amante" tells the story of this mythological laborer in love
  • To defeat the Lernean hydra, this hero cut off 8 of its heads & buried the ninth under a big rock
  • This mythical hero wore the skin of the Nemean lion he had slain
  • The Celtic god Ogmios, who carried a bow & a club, is identified with this similarly armed Roman muscleman
  • In Roman myth this powerful tot killed 2 serpents in his cradle
  • This guy had double the trouble battling the Hydra; every time he cut off a head, 2 grew in its place
  • Hope you didn't "myth" this 1997 film, with James Woods as the voice of Hades & Rip Torn as Zeus
  • Slipping into insanity, Commodus imagined he was this mythical club-wielding hero
  • In Roman myth, this powerful tot killed 2 serpents in his cradle
  • Ioalus, the son of Iphicles & Automedusa, helped this man, his uncle, with his labors
  • Antony liked to wear his tunic low on his hips as he fancied himself looking like & related to this strong demi-god
  • The Oracle at Delphi told this Greek hero he had to perform labors for King Eurystheus for 12 years
  • "Go the Distance" & "Oh Mighty Zeus"
  • The Farnese statue of this mythic hero leaning on his club was found in the Baths of Caracalla
  • This mythical hero stole Hippolyta's girdle as one of his labors
  • The Golden Apples of the Hesperides
  • In 1934 a star in the constellation named for this legendary strongman was seen going nova
  • The Lockheed C-130 is known by this name of a mythic hero who slew the Hydra
  • Thinking it was a love potion, Deianira dipped a shirt meant for him in poisoned blood--oops! It killed him
  • Taking the golden apples of the Hesperides was the 11th of this mythic man's 12 labors
  • The original requirements for this workhorse plane, the C-130, included carrying 30,000 pounds of troops or gear
  • Linus the Music Teacher was too critical of this "labor"er, his pupil, who hit him with a lyre & killed him
  • Arnold used the last name "Strong" when portraying this demigod "in New York"
  • The classic name for the double promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar is "The Pillars of" this mythic hero
  • (I'm Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men.) The ruthless leader Commodus believed he was this god, the son of Zeus, & showed off his physical strength by fighting & dressing as a gladiator
  • Saying he needed a pad for his head, this hero tricked Atlas into reassuming his job of holding the heavens
  • Amanda Plummer, Paddi Edwards & Carole Shelley were destined to play the fates in the film about this mythical hunk
  • Iolaos cauterized the places where this hero cut the heads off the Hydra & stopped them from growing back
  • This hero of mythology cleaned the Augean stables by diverting the courses of 2 nearby rivers
  • [Hi, I'm Kevin Sorbo of Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"] According to Greek mythology, Andromeda is both a great-grandparent of & a sister-in-law of this mighty hero

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