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)]]In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera", or "Glorious
through Hera," Alcides (original name) " + , )" was a divine hero, the son
of Zeus and Alcmene, nephew of AmphitryonBy his adoptive descent through
Ampitryon, Heracles receives the epithet Alcides, as "of the line of
Alcaeus", father of Amphitryon. and great-grandson of Perseus. He was the
greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of
royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian
order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known
as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and
Maximianus, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek
version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal
detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the
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