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Heracles
Heracles ,born Alcaeus or Alcides , was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus...

or Herakles is the Greek mythic hero and son of the god Zeus.

Heracles may also refer to:
  • Hercules
    Hercules
    Hercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus , and the mortal Alcmene...

    , the Roman mythological analogue to the Greek Heracles.

Film and television

  • Bongo Heracles from X Bomber
    X Bomber
    is a marionette tokusatsu TV series. It was created by manga master Go Nagai, and produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions. The show aired on Fuji TV from to , with a total of 26 episodes , and was billed in Japan as being filmed in "Sūpāmariorama" , a puppeteering process similar to...

    , also known as Barry Hercules in the UK dubbed version, Star Fleet
  • Herakles (film)
    Herakles (film)
    Herakles is a 1962 short film and the first film by German director Werner Herzog, then 20 years old.The film relates to six of the twelve labours of Heracles. The film starts with shots of young male bodybuilders working out in a gym, posing on a stage and flexing their muscles...

    , a 1962 film by Werner Herzog

Sports

  • Heracles Almelo
    Heracles Almelo
    Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, Netherlands.Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles, after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title...

    , the Dutch football club
  • Iraklis
    Iraklis
    Iraklis , is a Greek football club, branch of Gymnastic Club Iraklis Thessaloniki, based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. The club used to play in the Greek Superleague and is one of the oldest clubs in Greek football and the oldest in Thessaloniki, hence the nickname Ghireos...

    , a sports club based in Thessaloniki, Greece

Video / Board / Card games

  • Glory of Heracles (series), a Japanese role-playing video game series
  • Heracles Chariot Racing
    Heracles Chariot Racing
    Heracles Chariot Racing is a racing game by Neko Entertainment originally released for PlayStation 2 in 2007. It was later released as a WiiWare game in North America on July 6, 2009 and the PAL regions on July 24, 2009...

    , a video game for PlayStation 2 and WiiWare by Neko Entertainment

Literature

  • Heracles Papyrus
    Heracles Papyrus
    The Heracles Papyrus is a fragment of a 3rd century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labors of Heracles. It contains three unframed colored line drawings of the first of the Labors, the killing of the Nemean Lion, set within the columns of cursive text. It was found at Oxyrhynchus The...

    , an ancient Greek manuscript
  • Herakles (Euripides), also known as Heracles Mad, a Greek tragedy by Euripides
  • Herakles (Wedekind), a play by Frank Wedekind
    Frank Wedekind
    Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...


Transport

  • Herakles (pusher)
    Herakles (pusher)
    Herakles was a pusher vessel owned by Finnish towing and marine salvage company Alfons Håkans Oy Ab. The ship, originally built as salvage tug Into in 1967, was converted to a pusher in 1991 to be chartered to Rautaruukki Oyj and later ESL Shipping Ltd as the third pusher vessel for Finnpusku, a...

    , a Finnish pusher tug that foundered in 2004.
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