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Heracles

noun
1.
(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality.  Synonyms: Alcides, Herakles, Hercules.






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"Heracles" Quotes from Famous Books



... one draws such lilies or such daisies as Lippi. Botticelli beat him afterwards in roses, but never in lilies. Fourthly, due honor for classical tradition. Lippi is the only religious painter who dresses John Baptist in the camelskin, as the Greeks dressed Heracles in the lion's—over the head. Lastly, and chiefly of all,—Le Pere Hyacinthe taught his pupil certain views about the doctrine of the Church, which the boy thought of more deeply than his tutor, and that by a great deal; and Master Sandro presently got himself into such ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin

... it a legend only. Whether Heracles ever slew, or St. Jerome ever cherished, the wild or wounded creature, is of no moment to us in learning what the Greeks meant by their vase-outlines of the great contest, or the Christian painters by their fond insistence on the constancy of the Lion-friend. ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... "Heracles", translated by Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, London, 1963). Contains four plays by Euripides, two of which concern ...
— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius



Words linked to "Heracles" :   classical mythology, mythical being, Alcides, Hercules, Herakles



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