
Heracles - in ancient sources @ attalus.org
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Heracles
- Greek hero; son of Zeus and Alcmene
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Ptolemaeus pays for a new temple of Heracles at Heracleia.
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Philippus dedicates to Heracles a bull which he killed while hunting.
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Scipio dedicates a temple to Hercules.
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dedication to Hercules in the Circus.
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feast in the temple of Hercules, when a general who is
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to say, the priest of Heracles, did not lay down his
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hung up in the temple of Hercules, in which the generals
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sarges, in the temple of Heracles, there is a pillar on
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chose some parasites for Heracles." And Themison, in his
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This city honours Heracles exceedingly, & And sacrifices
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Semidalis. & (B) & Heracles! & This is a list of dishes,
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ong," said he; "for even Heracles went from Omphale to Heb
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;τος) Heracles there? And Pherecrates,
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Athens at the temple of Heracles in Diomeia, and who say
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one wearing the dress of Heracles, and being called Heracl
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Macedonian, [290] the Heracles of Antiochus the king;"
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ttle-fish first. O Heracles! & They've dirtied every place
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Diphilus, in his Heracles, speaking of some similar kind
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on this account: "When Heracles was in the district of
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And he introduces Heracles as saying- & (A) & For how in
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wine, and bring it to Heracles; and they call this cup
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from the ancient race of Heracles." [51.] "Pharax the Lace
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and carried a club, like Heracles." What wonder then is
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when he was painting the Heracles at Lindus, that the god
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& (B) & O mighty Heracles ! & (A) & And with Megallian
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Il_7'467 ]." [4.] But Heracles is the man who appears
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iage with Cleopatra; and Heracles was ruined by his marria
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nder, in his False Heracles, says- & Did he not try to whe
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was a great favourite of Heracles, on which account he wil
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axandrides, in his Heracles, says- & For he appears a real
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says, with reference to Heracles- & Immediately he caught
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Zeus' mighty son, great Heracles, & Forsook a life of eas
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was "mightier than Heracles", when he writes
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who was mightier than Heracles, let his armies as far
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ylonians was superior to Heracles in strength and the grea
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and were killed, after Heracles and Dionysus, who were
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his. They say that Heracles left the ship because of his
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xpedition of the Argonauts and Heracles happened during
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he consecrated the temples of Heracles and of Astarte.
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hom the Egyptians called Heracles, 9 years Psammūs,
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urs occurred in his reign; and Heracles held the athletic
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hey had been held before Heracles, by one of the Idaean
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[which had been fixed by Heracles at the summer solstice;
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ation competitions, like Heracles; so he was acclaimed as
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acchidae, descendants of Heracles who were more than 200
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the Macedonian kings back to Heracles. From Caranus, who
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laws. After them, Heracles arrived with a Greek fleet and
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ars. In his reign, Heracles arrived from Spain and set up
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the outer boundaries of Heracles which lie in the furthes
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told that after Heracles, Quirinus also ascended thithe
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to his side. "Quirinus," said Heracles, "I will not have
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petition, had not mighty Heracles encouraged him and preve
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I strove to rival, but Heracles I ever admired and follo
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Alexander hastened to Heracles, and Octavianus to Apoll
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just as comedians drag Heracles and Dionysus on the stag
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hus and the monuments of Hercules; 10 that by them Alexand
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ountry of Pontus, dedicated to Hercules. But as, through
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the grand-daughter of Hercules, and by a marriage with
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uncle, who was priest of Hercules, a dignity next to that
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his father had taken, to Hercules), and being desired by
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and were the first after Hercules (to whom that undertakin
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first of mankind, after Hercules and Liber (whom traditio
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daughter of Faunus and Hercules, (who, having killed Ger
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owned, that they tempted Hercules out of Asia by the great
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ved the sacred things of Hercules from Tyre, whence also
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nted there by the priest Heracles, who founded Daphne and
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the threats, and said "Heracles is karron, Seleucus" ("k
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and he built a temple of Heracles, made from Proconnesian
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the disappearance of Hylas and Heracles' wanderings in sea
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oved the statue of Heracles from the market-place, along
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bids every descendant of Heracles from having children by
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Far as the pillars which Heracles rear'd, Your counsels
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the only worthy descendant of Heracles. His common suppe
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king, a descendant of Heracles, who wanted only to rest
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for the descendants of Heracles to serve the successors
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brought him a son named Heracles, had two sisters; one
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exceeded the deeds of Heracles - But I, said he, do not
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to marshal his army, O Heracles! said he, how many comma
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mmarises everything from Heracles and the Trojan War down
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lineage reaches back To Heracles and wise Lysidice, whom
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- son of Alexander and Barsine
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Polyperchon sets up Heracles as a pretender to the Macedonian throne.
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Heracles is put to death after Cassander and Polyperchon come to
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Alexander left two sons, Heracles the son of Barsine the
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xander by Barsine, named Heracles; or, if they would rath
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n-law Roxane, and her grandson Heracles, to the city of
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Afterwards, lest Heracles, the son of Alexander, who had
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