Herakles or Alkaios or Alcides: The Greatest Hero of the Greeks 33cm Full Alabaster Statue, Ancient Greece

Heracles

(Greek: Ηρακλής, lit. "glory/fame of Hera"), born Alcaeus (Αλκαίος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Αλκείδης, Alkeides), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus, and similarly a half-brother of Dionysus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ηρακλείδαι), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. Heracles and his twin brother Iphicles were just eight months old when Hera sent two giant snakes into the childrens chamber. Iphicles cried from fear, but his brother grabbed a snake in each hand and strangled them. He was found by his nurse playing with them on his cot as if they were toys. Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer Tiresias, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters. In order to accomplish The Twelve Labours of Heracles, he had to slay the Nemean lion, the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra and the Stymphalian birds. Heracles had to clean the Augean stables in a single day, capture the Cretan Bull, the Ceryneian Hind and the Erymanthian Boar. Also, he had to steal the Mares of Diomedes and three of the golden apples of the Hesperides, obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazon and the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon. Lastly Heracles had to capture and bring back Cerberus.

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