(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.
4Heracles swung his club and struck the two heads off the hound.
5Then Heracles went north to where the Coryneian deer took her pasture.
6Heracles sprang on it and put his great hands upon its throat.
7But Heracles pleaded with him, and he took her by the hand.
8The Heracles sensor logs showed an enemy with an overwhelming technological superiority.
9Then a great chariot came and Heracles was borne away to Olympus.
10Jason spoke, and some looked to him and some looked to Heracles.
11With lips wet with the water they cried to each other, Heracles!
12Heracles killed them all off. She leaned forward and tickled his ear.
13There was, after all, the shirt of Nessus that had killed Heracles.
14The purest part of the soul had gone away; this was Heracles himself.
15Heracles was the greatest of the national heroes of the Greeks.
16In the picture, Heracles is returning with the squealing boar on his shoulder.
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