Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles.

Heracles slaughtered this abominable monstrosity, engendering the wrath of Ares, whom the hero wounded.

This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named " Hera-famous " in her honor ; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece.

In classical antiquity, hero cults that venerated deified heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and Achilles played an important role in Ancient Greek religion.

In later Western art and literature and in popular culture, Hercules is more commonly used than Heracles as the name of the hero.

* Heracles also appears in Aristophanes ' The Frogs, in which Dionysus seeks out the hero to find a way to the underworld.

* Heracles appears as the ancestral hero of Scythia in Herodotus ' text.

Abdera's eponymous hero, Abderus, was another of Heracles ' lovers.

This conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, commonly called the " Dorian invasion " or the " Return of the Heraclidae ", is represented as the recovery by the descendants of Heracles of the rightful inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons.

In some stories, Prometheus is freed at last by the hero Heracles ( Hercules ).

Years later, the Greek hero Heracles ( Hercules ) slays the eagle and frees Prometheus from his chains.

Traces of such a theory appear to underline various myths of a hero ( such as Heracles ) with both a human and a divine father.

As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Athenian founding hero, considered by them as their own great reformer: his name comes from the same root as (" thesmos "), Greek for " institution ".

When Dyrrhachus was attacked by his own brothers, Heracles, who was passing through the area, came to his aid, but in the fight the hero killed his ally's son by mistake.

One of the Twelve Labors of the hero Heracles was to fetch some of the golden apples which grow in Hera's garden, tended by Atlas ' daughters, the Hesperides, and guarded by the dragon Ladon.

They were involved in a conflict with the Olympian gods called the Gigantomachy ( Γιγαντομαχία ), which was eventually settled when the hero Heracles decided to help the Olympians.

Diodorus indicates Milo led the charge against the Sybarites wearing his Olympic crowns, draped in a lionskin and brandishing a club in a manner similar to the mythic hero Heracles ( see adjacent image ).

It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles ( Hercules was his Roman analogue ).

Heracles, the greatest hero of the dawning Classical Olympian world of deities and men, had to defeat the river god to win her as his bride.

More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.

In the myth of the birth of Heracles, it is Hera herself who sits at the door instead, delaying the birth of Heracles until her protégé, Eurystheus, had been born first.

According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

As is not uncommon in myth, this account cannot be reconciled with the far more common stories of Atlas ' dealings with Heracles, who was Perseus ' great-grandson.

Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of river gods, Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested.

" According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds.

In the myth of Heracles, Hippolyta ’ s girdle was the object of his ninth labor.

In the myth of Theseus, the hero joined Heracles in his expedition, or went on a separate expedition later, and was actually the one who had the encounter with Hippolyta.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

In her best-known myth, she is the master of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude, a scenario that offered writers and artists opportunities to explore gender roles and erotic themes.

In Etruscan religion and myth, Hercle ( also Heracle or Hercl ) was a form of the Greek Heracles, depicted as a muscular figure often carrying a club and wearing a lionskin.

In another myth, the cornucopia was created when Heracles ( Roman Hercules ) wrestled with the river god Achelous and wrenched off one of his horns ; river gods were sometimes depicted as horned.

In a Greek myth is mentioned that Heracles had jumped into the river in an attempt to wash off the Hydra poison infused in the cloak that he could not take off.

They were said to have been founded by Heracles after he defeated the Nemean Lion ; another myth said that they originated as the funeral games of a child named Opheltes.

The deified heroes Heracles and Asclepius might be worshipped as gods or chthonic heroes, depending on the site and the time of origin of the myth.

Even though the two versions coexisted in Greece and that of Heracles infant is attested earlier Renard suggests a process more in line with the evolution of the myth: the suckling of the adult Heracles should be regarded as more ancient and reflecting its original true meaning.

Nemea was famous in Greek myth as the home of the Nemean Lion, which was killed by the hero Heracles, and as the place where the infant Opheltes, lying on a bed of parsley, was killed by a serpent while his nurse fetched water for the Seven on their way from Argos to Thebes.

In the early period, Etruscan culture played an intermediary role in transmitting Greek myth and religion to the Romans, as evidenced in the linguistic transformation of Greek Heracles to Etruscan

Ephorus attempted a universal history, and though he attempted to set apart history from myth, he began his work with the legendary " Return of the sons of Heracles ", which modern readers understand as wholly mythic aitia.

In addition, Gemini ( in combination with Canis Major, Orion, Auriga, and the deserted area now called Camelopardalis ) may form the origin of the myth of the Cattle of Geryon, one of The Twelve Labours of Heracles.