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My selection from
The Frogs
My selection from
The Birds
Selections from Herodotus (I think I found all that relate to Herakles)
Liaisons and progeny
Divinity of Herakles
Relationship with
his father
Powers of Divination
- Euripides' Heracles
- Euripides' Alcestis
- Euripides' Heracles, 460 BC; Translated by Coleridge, Edward Phil
- Hesiod's Shield of Heracles
- Sources for Classical Mythology
- The History of Herodotus, Book I
- Apollodorus: HERCULES, HIS LABOURS, HIS DEATH, HIS APOTHESIS
- Apollodorus
- Heracles in paintings
- Plutarch. 46 ?)-120 ?) A. D.
- The Trachiniae by Sophocles (Trans. Sir R. C. Jebb)
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: Fragments of the Epic Cycle
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: The Marriage of Ceyx to Doubtful
- The Birds, by Aristophanes
- The Frogs, by Aristophanes
- Statue of Herakles
- Herakles image on sarcophagus
- Hydria
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Sources from Antiquity including:
The Birds
The not so bright Herakles
Synopsis:
Herakles discusses his patrimony with his uncle, Poseidon.
The Frogs
Herakles and death
Synopsis:
Dionysus visits Herakles (his half-brother)with a lionskin draped over his silk
tunic.
He needs help because he wants to go to the underworld to rescue Euripides.
Passage from Euripides' Alcestis. (below)
Heroic Herakles and death
Admetus, torn between his obligation to be a good host and his sorrow over
his wife's voluntary death--to save him--invites Herakles to share his
hospitality.
Herakles can see Admetus is in mourning, but Admetus claims the deceased
isn't a relative.
When Herakles learns the truth, he resolves to rescue Alcestis.
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Herakles in The Iliad (listed by book and line):
- 02.653 ...his son Tlepolemos
- 02.658 ...Tlepolemos, strength of Herakles
- 02.659 ...brought Astyocheia from Ephyra
- 02.666 ...the strength of Herakles
- 02.679 ...Pheidippos and Antiphos, son of Herakles
- 05.628 ...Herakles' son, Tlepolemos
- 05.638 ...son of Herakles, Tlepolemos
- 05.640 ...Herakles and Laomedon's horses
- 05.649 ...Herakles treated badly
- 05.650 ...Herakles treated badly
- 08.363 ...Athene rescued Herakles
- 08.367 ...Herakles down to Hades
- 11.689 ...Herakles against Nestor
- 14.250 ...Herakles, son of Zeus
- 14.266 ...Herakles
- 14.324 ...Alkmene's son, Herakles
- 15.025 ...Herakles the godlike
- 15.640 ...messenger of Herakles, Periphetes
- 18.117 ...the strength of Herakles
- 19.099 ...the strength of Herakles
- 20.145 ...the stronghold of Herakles, built by Athene
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