Hercules would go on many adventures of his own. It was during a lesson with his music teacher who criticized his lack of skill, Hercules killed him with a single blow. Īmphitryon raised Hercules as his own, training him in all forms of combat. However, Hera then sent two serpents to kill the child, but even at one year old he had great strength and strangled them both with his bare hands. He was returned to the city and was accepted by Amphitryon and his wife. While Hera breastfeeding the child, Hercules' godly strength harmed her when he bit down harder on Hera' breast and she flung him away. The child was at first abandoned outside the city and when Athena and Hera found him, Hera decided to feed infant Hercules with her divine breast milk. Zeus' wife Hera grew jealous of his adultery, Alcmena tried to appease the goddess by naming her child Heracles 'Glory of Hera'. Due to his Olympian lineage, Hercules was born with the potential for extraordinary superhuman strength.

He was born as the result of Zeus seducing Alcmena in the guise of her husband, Amphitryon who was away at war battling the pirates of Taphos.

Herakles was the son of Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, and Alcmena of Thebes in Ancient Greece. Lamus, Cleodaius (sons by unnamed mothers, deceased) Gelonus, Scythes, Agathyrus (sons by Echidna, deceased) Hyllus, Ctessipus (sons by Deianira, deceased) Hebe (paternal half-sister / third wife, separated) Īlflyse (ex-fourth wife, marriage annulled, deceased) Persephone (paternal half-sister/cousin/aunt) Ouranos (paternal great-grandfather, deceased)Įlectryon (maternal grandfather, deceased) Īres, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes, Hephaestus (paternal half-brothers) Īphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Eileithyia, Helen, Discord (paternal half-sisters) Perseus (maternal great-grandfather, deceased)

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