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Hercules was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the son of Jupiter (or Jove, the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus) and the mortal Alcmene. He was made to perform twelve great tasks, called the Twelve Labours of Hercules and became a god; the Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged.Hercules can be identified by his attributes, the lionskin and the club.
The cult of Hercules may have been the first foreign one to be adopted in Rome; his most important shrine, the Ara Maxima , was in the original Palatine settlement. He became popular with merchants, who customarily paid him a tithe of their profits.
The later Roman emperors often identified or compared themselves with Hercules, in particular Commodus and Maximinus.
1 Movie and television adaptations
The legend of Hercules has many movie and television adaptations.
- Steve Reeves starred in a number of 1950s movies as Hercules
- A syndicated TV series The Sons of Hercules, which repackaged Italian Maciste films
- Hercules appears as a character in the movie Jason & the Argonauts
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian- American actor, politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. He was elected in 2003 in a special recall election, removing sitting Governor's 1969 film debut, Hercules in New YorkHercules in New York is a 1970 film directed by Arthur Allen Seidelman. It was the film debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Credited as "Arnold Strong", he plays the film's title character. The film is on the IMDb bottom 100 listing, and is widely considered
- The Disney movie HerculesHercules is an animated 1997 Disney movie about Heracles (known in the movie by his Roman mythology name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. This was followed by an animated television series based on the movie characters, and Hercules: Zero and its spin-off animated TV series
- The syndicated TV series , which is only very loosely based on the classical hero
- Young HerculesYoung Hercules was a spin-off from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''., a television series based on the hero's youth
- The Mighty HerculesThe Mighty Hercules was an animated series based loosely on the Greek mythological character of Heracles, under his Roman Mythology name, Hercules. It debuted in 1963 and ran until 1966. 109 episodes were produced. Adventure Cartoon Productions made the s, an animated series that ran in the 1960s
- HerculesHercules or Heracles being in one sense a superhero from classical antiquity, and a recognisable character freely available in the public domain, has been featured in a number of comic book series. Some notable appearances include: Marvel Comics By far th, a public domain character appearing in several comic books
2 Namesakes
As a name associated with legendary strength, "Hercules" has been used for a variety of things:
Roman mythology
