BrokenNorthern t1_jeb05h3 wrote
It's Heracles though, right? As in Hera's glory. He was renamed in her honour.
Brother_Farside t1_jecnj0i wrote
Heracles in Greek, Hercules in Roman.
WarpmanAstro t1_jeba4v7 wrote
Literally so she'd stop being mad. His birth name is actually Alcides. IIRC, his parents renamed him after they took him to a seer and discovered why he was strong enough to choke out two pythons as a baby and by whom those pythons had been sent.
grat_is_not_nice t1_jedl5dg wrote
It didn't help. Hera kept taking potshots at Heracles. She eventually made Heracles mad, and he slaughtered his wife Megara and their three sons.
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