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In ancient Roman religion and myth, Hercules was venerated as a divinized hero and incorporated into the legends of Rome's founding. The Romans adapted Greek myths and the iconography of Heracles into their own literature and art, but the hero developed distinctly Roman characteristics.
Hercules (/ ˈ h ɜːr k j ʊ ˌ l iː z /, US: /-k j ə-/) [2] is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology , Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
A Roman gilded silver bowl depicting the boy Hercules strangling two serpents, from the Hildesheim Treasure, 1st century CE, Altes Museum In Rome, Heracles was honored as Hercules , and had a number of distinctively Roman myths and practices associated with him under that name.
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 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.
The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Latin: Herculis Invicti Ara Maxima) [a] stood in the Forum Boarium near the Tiber River in ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult location of Hercules in Rome, possibly originally dating as early as the 6th century bc. Its foundations possibly lie beneath the present church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in ...
The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi [1] Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules. They were accomplished in the service of King Eurystheus. The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative.
The Temple of Hercules Musarum in the Portico of Philippus in Gismondi's model, Museum of Roman Civilization. The Temple of Hercules Musarum (Aedes Herculis Musarum) was a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules Musarum ("Hercules of the Muses") located near the Circus Flaminius in the southern Campus Martius in ancient Rome.