Herakles
mythological figure · 3 works · 10 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Zeus' son, mighty Herakles · indomitable Herakles · mighty Herakles · mighty son of Amphitryon · noble Herakles · son of Amphitryon
in the texts
Iliad
Legendary hero, father of Tlepolemos, remembered for wounding gods and sacking Ilion.
Hera, again, suffered when the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a three-barbed arrow, and nothing could assuage her pain.
And Sarpedon, leader of the Lycians, answered, "Tlepolemos, your father overthrew Ilion by reason of Laomedon's folly in refusing payment to one who had served him well.
Far other was Herakles, my own brave and lion-hearted father, who came here for the horses of Laomedon, and though he had six ships only, and few men to follow him, sacked the city of Ilion and made a wilderness of her highways.
Odyssey
Legendary hero named by Odysseus as an archer he would not presume to challenge.
I far excel every one else in the whole world, of those who still eat bread upon the face of the earth, but I should not like to shoot against the mighty dead, such as Herakles, or Eurytos the Cechalian- men who could shoot against the gods themselves.
"Then I saw Alkmene, the wife of Amphitryon, who also bore to Zeus indomitable Herakles;
"After him I saw mighty Herakles, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Zeus and Hera.
The Histories
The legendary hero credited, together with the Malians, with driving the Dryopians out of the land later called Doris.
The Hermioneans are Dryopians, driven out of the country now called Doris by Herakles and the Malians.