Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

The main heavy transport aircraft is the Lockheed C-130H Hercules and it will not change soon.

In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The latter is an important mission to the Falkland Islands government as the Hercules verifies that all fishing vessels are licensed ; at £ 1, 000 per licence per season this is an extremely lucrative source of income.

In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.

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

Hercules is known for his many adventures, which took him to the far reaches of the Greco-Roman world.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

Aside from his superhuman powers, Iceman is also a fair hand-to-hand combatant, and received combat training at Xavier's School as well as coaching from the Black Widow and Hercules while serving with the Champions of Los Angeles.

Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.

He is shown to have been a student of Philoctetes and takes his advice to let Hercules travel with him.

In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

The modern port is still sometimes called the " Port of Hercules ".

: dictus autem Monoecus vel quod pulsis omnibus illic solus habitavit (" either because Hercules drove off everyone else and lived there alone "), vel quod in eius templo numquam aliquis deorum simul colitur (" or because in his temple no other of the gods is worshipped at the same time ").

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

The two most featured pantheons are the Asgardians ( of whom Thor is a member ) and the Olympians ( of whom Hercules is a member ).

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

* Hercules Victori ( Roman Empire )

* Nico Roymans, " Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire ", in Ton Derks, Nico Roymans ( ed.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

Hercules was among the earliest figures on ancient Roman coinage, and has been the main motif of many collector coins and medals since.

File: Æ Triens 2710028. jpg | Juno, with Hercules fighting a Centaur on reverse ( Roman, 215 – 15 BCE )

File: MAXIMINUS II-RIC VI 77-251201. jpg | Maximinus II and Hercules with club and lionskin ( Roman, 313 CE )

In Rome, Heracles was honored as Hercules, and had a number of distinctively Roman myths and practices associated with him under that name.

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hercules, or HMS Hercule, after the Greek and Roman hero Hercules.

* Commodus, Roman Emperor, claimed to be Hercules reincarnated

Moreover, as Hercules, he could claim to be the son of Jupiter, the representative of the supreme god of the Roman pantheon.

During the Communist rule, mass tourism facilities were built, such as the 8-12 levels tall concrete hotels Roman, Hercules A, Hercules B, Afrodita, Minerva, Diana, UGSR, etc.

According to some Roman sources, while on his way to the island of Erytheia, Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas.

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 ).

Hercules and Achelous in a Roman wall painting from the Augustales | Hall of the Augustales

In Book IV of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ' epic poem Pharsalia ( c. 65-61 AD ), the story of Hercules ' victory over Antaeus is told to the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen.

The association of white poplar leaves with Herakles is also attested by archaeological remains, such as the poplar-leaf motif carved on a statue base found in a small sanctuary to Herakles ( Roman Hercules ) along the Tiber river.

In the Roman tradition, Hercules founded an altar after he killed Cacus.

In classical mythology, Hylas () was a youth who served as a companion of Heracles ( Roman Hercules ).

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.

Hercules and Omphale, detail of a Roman mosaic from Lliria, Spain | Llíria ( Spain ), 3rd century.