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  2. Hercules in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Hercules Olivarius ("the Olive Merchant"), in reference to a statue of Hercules dedicated by the guild of olive merchants. [ 19 ] Hercules Triumphalis ("Triumphal"), represented by a statue in the Forum Boarium, was dressed in the regalia of a triumphator when a triumph was held.

  3. Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Tivoli) - Wikipedia

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    View over sanctuary from Villa D´Este Temple of Hercules Victor. The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Italian: Ercole Vincitore) in Tivoli (Italy) was one of the major complexes of the Roman Republican era built on the wave of the Hellenistic cultural influence after the final Roman conquest of Greece (146 BC). [1]

  4. Heracles in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Hercules, Prisoner of Evil was originally an Ursus film in Italy. (See "Ursus" section below) Hercules and the Masked Rider was actually originally a Goliath movie in Italy. (See "Goliath" section below) None of these films in their original Italian versions involved the Hercules character in any way. Likewise, most of the Sons of Hercules ...

  5. Hercules - Wikipedia

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    A series of nineteen Italian Hercules movies were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus (billed as Rock Stevens) and Michael Lane. A number of English-dubbed ...

  6. Farnese Hercules - Wikipedia

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    The heroically-scaled Hercules is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, [5] and has fixed the image of the mythic hero in the European imagination. Right hand behind the back with the apples. The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original that was cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting.

  7. Temple of Hercules Victor - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Hercules Victor (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius (Latin for "Hercules the Olive-Bearer") [1] is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade.

  8. Hercules of the Forum Boarium - Wikipedia

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    Hercules Musei Capitolini MC1265 n2. Hercules of the Forum Boarium is a gilded bronze statue of Hercules found on the site of the Forum Boarium of ancient Rome. It was placed in the Palazzo Dei Conservatori for safe keeping in 1950 and remains there today. The Hercules of Forum Boarium was likely to have been a cult image of Temple of Hercules ...

  9. Italian Renaissance sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Italian Renaissance sculpture was an important part of the art of the Italian Renaissance, in the early stages arguably representing the leading edge. [1] The example of Ancient Roman sculpture hung very heavily over it, both in terms of style and the uses to which sculpture was put.