Statue of Youthful Heracles
Statue of Youthful Heracles
3D
Published 2018-02-27T14:19:15+00:00
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 and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae, and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Romeand the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.
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| Date published | 27/02/2018 |
| Title | Statue of Youthful Heracles |
| Date | 2nd c. AD |
| Accession | S 2438 |
| Credit | Museum of the Ancient Agora |
| Record | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles |
| Place | Museum of the Ancient Agora |
