person
Heracles
also: Ἡρακλῆς
Greatest of the Greek heroes, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene; Hymn 15 recalls his labours under Eurystheus and his reward of immortality and marriage to Hebe on Olympus.
Reading notes
- The Epigrams of Homer §14 Heracles
The greatest of the Greek heroes; the poem specifies the Centaurs summoned are those who either escaped or died at his hands, a grim detail meant to intimidate the potters.
- The Homeric Hymns §15.1 Heracles
Greatest of the Greek heroes, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene; Hymn 15 recalls his labours under Eurystheus and his reward of immortality and marriage to Hebe on Olympus.
- The Odyssey §8.202 Heracles
Named with Eurytus as an archer of the older heroic generation Odysseus will not presume to rival.
- The Odyssey §11.595 the mighty Heracles, his phantom
His true self feasts among the gods with his divine wife Hebe; only his underworld phantom, bow drawn, remains among the dead.