(Classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality.
1The problem is solved by the sudden appearance of the deified Heracles.
2He therefore insisted on Heracles substituting two more labours in their place.
3The entry of Heracles practically makes the play double, marring its continuity.
4Then Heracles went north to where the Coryneian deer took her pasture.
5But Heracles pleaded with him, and he took her by the hand.
6The Heracles sensor logs showed an enemy with an overwhelming technological superiority.
7Then a great chariot came and Heracles was borne away to Olympus.
8Jason spoke, and some looked to him and some looked to Heracles.
9With lips wet with the water they cried to each other, Heracles!
10There was, after all, the shirt of Nessus that had killed Heracles.
11The purest part of the soul had gone away; this was Heracles himself.
12In the picture, Heracles is returning with the squealing boar on his shoulder.
13The Greeks revelled in reverence of Heracles by reason of his twelve labours.
14Then it so happened that Heracles came into the palace of the king.
15And Heracles forgot Iole, the childlike maiden whom he had seen in Oichalia.
16The ship had proceeded some distance before the absence of Heracles was observed.
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