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.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

The ancient name Ηράκλειον was revived in the 19th century and comes from the nearby Roman port of Heracleum (" Heracles ' city "), whose exact location is unknown.

At this time, the city was renamed " Heraklion ", after the Roman port of Heracleum (" Heracles ' city "), whose exact location is unknown.

In one victory ode, celebrating Glaucus of Carystus, a famous boxer, Simonides declares that not even Heracles or Polydeuces could have stood against him — a statement whose impiety seemed notable even to Lucian many generations later.

Antilochus left behind in Messenia a son Paeon, whose descendants were among the Neleidae expelled from Messenia, by the descendants of Heracles.

In the poem Shield of Heracles, Heracles and Iolaus encountered Cycnus and Ares on the way to Trachis, each pair riding a chariot ; it is mentioned that Heracles was directing to the court of King Ceyx, to whose daughter Themistonoe Cycnus was married.

Apollo, whose Pagasaean sanctuary was next to the place where the characters meet, is said to have stirred Heracles up against Cycnus.

The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines ; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as " Tyrian Heracles ", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.

Roman sources such as Ovid state that Hylas ' father was Hercules and his mother was the nymph Melite, or that his mother was the wife of Theiodamas, whose adulterous affair with Heracles caused the war between him and her husband.

Alexander claimed descent from Argive Greeks and Heracles, although Macedon was considered a " barbaric " state by some in Athens, whose territories were threatened by its expansion.

In Greek mythology, Nessus ( Ancient Greek: ) was a famous centaur who was killed by Heracles, and whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles.

In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue.

The twelve labours of Hercules or dodekathlon (, dodekathlon ) are a series of episodes concerning a penance carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later romanised as Hercules.

Whatever myth-making served to account for an archaic representation of Heracles as " Hera's man " it was thought suitable for the builders of the Heraion at Paestum to depict the exploits of Heracles in bas-reliefs.

Lysias apparently claimed to be a descendant of Demetrius, using a similar reverse of Heracles crowning himself, Demetrius ' epithet Invincible, and sometimes the elephant crown always worn by this king.

For the 2010 – 2011 season, Gertjan Verbeek, coming from Heracles Almelo, will be the new manager.

Among these men was Heracles ' servant Hylas who was gathering water while Heracles was out finding some wood to carve a new oar to replace the one that broke.

Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all " liminal " figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways.

Heracles forgot about Iole, at least for the time being, as Deianira was a prospect for his new children that he very much wanted.

Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia, it met its end in the Calydonian Hunt, in which all the heroes of the new age pressed to take part, with the exception of Heracles, who vanquished his own Goddess-sent Erymanthian Boar separately.

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar ( Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιος κάπρος ; Latin: aper Erymanthius ) is remembered in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the ( reconciled ) enemy of Hera, visited in turn " all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable ' monster ' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father ," Zeus.

His theories identified the people as a " natural entity its own organic life ", and sometimes justified the right of conquest when new civilizations toppled decadent ones — the conflict, he argued, was between Heracles and Trimalchio.

Alexander knew of a temple to Melkart, whom he identified with the Greek god Heracles, within the new city walls and informed the inhabitants that they would be spared if he were allowed to make sacrifice in the temple ( the old port had been abandoned and the Tyrians were now living on an offshore island half a mile from the mainland ).

He was the author of a Heracleia-Ἡράκλεια, in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era.