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Heracles

[ her-uh-kleez ]

/ ˈhɛr əˌkliz /

noun

Hercules(def 1).

Also called Heracles Furens

[fyoo r-uh ns] /ˈfyʊər əns/. (italics) a tragedy (420? b.c.) by Euripides.

Origin of Heracles

< Greek Hēraklês, literally, having the glory of Hera, equivalent to Hḗra Hera + -klēs, akin to kléos glory, fame

OTHER WORDS FROM Heracles

Her·a·cle·an, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for heracles

Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.

The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero |Regina Lizik |October 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Mythic heroes, especially Heracles, wrestled monsters and wild beasts at the beginning of time.

The Olympics Wimps Out on Wrestling and Competition |James Romm |February 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
See Now Then is the story of Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children Persephone and Heracles.

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One could have found men who were said to have fought alongside Heracles.

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When vengeance has been taken Iris descends from heaven, sent by Hera to stain Heracles with kindred bloodshed.

Authors of Greece |T. W. Lumb
Heracles sought him in vain, and the answer of Hylas to his thrice-repeated cry was lost in the depths of the water.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 2 |Various
Heracles supports on his shoulders the vault of heaven, while the Titan Atlas brings him the golden apples of the Hesperides.

A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) |A. H. Smith
Are you proceeding to set our Father Zeus on fire, or do you intend to repeat on our unwilling Heracles the rites of canonisation?

Hypolympia |Edmund Gosse
Heracles goes to this Rough country to seek for rest; all the waves and billows of his life having—as he thinks now—gone over him.

The Eagle's Nest |John Ruskin

British Dictionary definitions for heracles

Heracles

Herakles

/ (ˈhɛrəˌkliːz) /

noun

the usual name (in Greek) for Hercules 1

Derived forms of Heracles

Heraclean or Heraklean, adjective