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Children of Heracles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλεῖδαι, Hērakleidai; also translated as Herakles' Children and Heraclidae) is an Athenian tragedy written by Euripides. In the year of 430 B.C., Children of Heracles was performed. [1] It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae) as they seek protection from Eurystheus.
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Heracles carrying his son Hyllus looks at the centaur Nessus, who is about to carry Deianira across the river on his back. Antique fresco from Pompeii. Heracles (/ ˈ h ɛr ə k l iː z / HERR-ə-kleez; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, lit.
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Heracles holding Hyllus with Deianira nearby, as the centaur Nessus pleads for his life (Pompeii fresco) Heracles with his son Telephus, one of the Heracleidae. The Heracleidae (/ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ d iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλεῖδαι) or Heraclids / ˈ h ɛr ə k l ɪ d z / were the numerous descendants of Heracles, especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of ...
In the fourth century BCE, it was widely cited by orators and was mentioned as a paradigmatic story of Athens's glorious history by Aristotle. [27] The myth was the subject of three plays by the fifth-century Athenian playwright Euripides: the extant Heracleidae (' Children of Heracles ') and the lost Temenos and Temenidai (' Descendants of ...
Films about Heracles, a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon.In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules.Heracles' role as a culture hero, whose death could be a subject of mythic telling, was accepted into the Olympian Pantheon during classical antiquity.
In the play Children of Heracles by Euripides, Macaria, [a] along with her siblings, Alcmene and Iolaus flees from King Eurystheus, who is determined the kill all the children of Heracles, to Athens where they find shelter in the court of King Demophon, who refused to hand them over when Eurystheus gave him an ultimatum of war upon Athens unless he surrendered the Heraclidae. [3]