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Heracles

[ her-uh-kleez ]

noun

  1. Also called Heracles Furens [fyoor, -, uh, ns]. (italics) a tragedy (420? b.c.) by Euripides.


Heracles

/ ˈhɛrəˌkliːz /

noun

  1. the usual name (in Greek) for Hercules 1
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Derived Forms

  • ˌHeraˈclean, adjective
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Other Words From

  • Hera·clean adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Heracles1

From Greek Hēraklês, literally, “having the glory of Hera,” equivalent to Hḗra + -klēs, akin to kléos “glory, fame”; Hera
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Example Sentences

Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.

Mythic heroes, especially Heracles, wrestled monsters and wild beasts at the beginning of time.

See Now Then is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children Persephone and Heracles.

One could have found men who were said to have fought alongside Heracles.

Hesiod, quite unlike his contemporaries, the "later" poets of Iliad and Odyssey, gives to Heracles an iron helmet and sword.

The swallowing and disgorging of Heracles by the monster that was to slay Hesione is well known.

The euhemeristic explanation of the struggle with the triple monster was that Heracles fought three brothers in succession.

To carry off these cattle to Greece was one of the twelve “labours” imposed by Eurystheus upon Heracles.

Heracles is called , from his being identical with the Sun, and he has this name in common with Apollo and Jove.

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