(detail), silver plate, 6th century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris).]] Hercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. Etymology Hercules' Latin name is not directly borrowed from Greek Herakles but is a modification of the Etruscan name Hercle, which derives from the Greek name via syncope. An oath invoking Hercules (Hercle! or Mehercle!) was a common interjection in Classical Latin. Character Iolaus. 1st c. CE mosaic from the Anzio Nymphaeum, Rome]]In Roman works of art and in Renaissance and post-Renaissance art that adapts Roman iconography, Hercules can be identified by his attributes, the lion skin and the club: in mosaic he is shown tanned black, a virile aspect.The Classical and Hellenistic conventions of frescoes and mosaics is to show women as pale-skinned and men as tanned dark from the

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