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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.
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 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.
As a cult possibly originated in Tivoli, tradition has it that the cult of Hercules Victor was exported to Rome in the late Republican age by the legendary Marcus Octavius Herennius, [12] a wealthy oil merchant, perhaps identifiable with that Herennius who was a musician (tibicinus) and then Magistratus Herculaneus at the Tiburtine sanctuary.
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.
In volume five of Livy's History of Rome, which was written about 200 years later, the Roman historian wrote: A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium. They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most ...