- Eponym
👤 Heracles greatest Greek hero
- Encompasses
- 🎨 Wall Painting from the Basilica, Herculaneum (MANN 9049) 🎨 Wall Painting from the Basilica at Herculaneum (MANN 9006; LIMC Herakles 2159) 🎨 Wall Painting from Samnite House, Herculaneum (LIMC Europe I 138) 🎨 Wall Painting from Bicentennial House, Herculaneum (LIMC Pasiphae 5) 🎨 Wall Painting from House of Argos II 2, Herculaneum (LIMC Dirke 17) 🎨 Wall Painting from the Basilica, Herculaneum (MANN 9109) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa della Gemma I, 1, Herculaneum (MANN 152901) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dell'Atrio a Mosaico IV, 1-2 Room 9, Herculaneum (LIMC Dirke 18) 🎨 Wall Painting from the Basilica, Herculaneum (MANN 9008) 🎨 Wall Painting from Palestra II 4, 9, Herculaneum (MANN 8993) 🎨 Wall Painting from lararium in Casa di Nettuno e Anfitrite V 6-7, Herculaneum (MANN 150210) 🎨 Wall Painting from Palestra II 4, 9, Herculaneum (MANN 9020) 🏛️ Samnite House V 1 (Herculaenum) 🏛️ Bicentennial House V 13-18 (Herculaneum) 🏛️ House of Argos II 2 (Herculaneum) 🏛️ Casa della Gemma I, 1 (Herculaneum) 🏛️ Casa dell'Atrio a Mosaico IV, 1-2 (Herculaneum) 🏛️ Basilica (Herculaneum) 🏛️ Palestra, Insula Orientalis II 4, 19 (Herculaneum) 🏛️ Casa di Nettuno e Anfitrite V 6-7 (Herculaneum)
- Has depictions of
👤 Artemis Olympian goddess
👤 Theseus Athenian hero
👤 the Minotaur killed by Theseus
👤 Dictynna (Cretan) goddess, identified with Britomartis
👥 the Final Athenian Tribute when Theseus participated
👤 the Erymanthian Boar boar captured by Heracles
👤 Eurystheus assigns Heracles his labors
👤 Heracles greatest Greek hero
🏺 the Jar of Eurystheus hiding spot
👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan) abducted by Zeus
👤 Zeus (Olympian) Olympian god
👤 Daidalos Athenian inventor & architect, builder of the Labyrinth
👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) wife of Minos, mother of Minotaur
👤 the Bull of Poseidon sent to Minos on Crete
👤 Amphion (Theban) son of Zeus and Antiope, husband of Niobe
👤 Dirce (w. of Lycos) wife of Lycos, punished by Amphion and Zethos
👤 Zethos son of Antiope, brother of Amphion
👤 the Bull of Dirce used to kill Dirce
👤 Achilles greatest Greek hero at Troy, leader of the Myrmidon contingent
👤 Cheiron (centaur) centaur
🏺 the Club of Heracles weapon of Heracles
👤 the Hydra killed by Heracles
👤 Telephos ruler of Mysia, shows the Greeks the way to Troy
👤 Andromeda wife of Perseus
👤 Perseus (Argive) Greek hero, slayer of Medousa
🏺 the Sickle of Perseus👤 Sea Monster (Ethiopian) Ethiopian sea monster killed by Perseus
👤 Castor (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian boar hunter, Argonaut
👤 Helen Helen of Troy
👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian Boar hunter, Argonaut
👤 Dido founder of Carthage
👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias) son of Aineias
👤 Patroclos (Myrmidon) son of Menoitios, Myrmidon fighter killed by Hector at Troy, close companion of Achilles
- Mentioned by
📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.697-15.744
- Mentioned in text
Ovid, Metamorphoses