Hercules

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.8 Alcides

  Hercules (grandson of Alceus), made a god after his labours.

• The Art of Love §1.7 the Tirynthian

  Hercules, raised at Tiryns, who throttled two snakes in his cradle: a precedent for divine prowess shown young.

• The Art of Love §2.11 earned the heaven

  Hercules, who through his labors (the monsters set him by his stepmother Juno) won a place in heaven, the sky he had once held up for Atlas.

• The Art of Love §3.8 Alcides

  Hercules (grandson of Alcaeus), who chose Iole on sight in the captured city.

• The Heroides §9 the son of Alceus

  Hercules, grandson of Alceus, the greatest of heroes; here enslaved by love to Iole and Omphale. The addressee.

• The Heroides §9 Hercules

  The hero himself, whose name makes Deianira 'well-married' yet ill-matched to so great a husband.

• The Heroides §9 the Aonian son of Alceus

  Hercules, called Aonian from his Theban (Boeotian) birth, to be wed shamefully to Iole.

• The Heroides §16 Alcides

  Hercules, who broke the horns of the river-god Achelous fighting for Deianira.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 simplicity of Hercules

  Hercules, proverbial for blunt, open straightforwardness; Ovid credits Fabius Maximus with the same noble simplicity, free of envy.

• The Festivals §2.15 Tirynthian youth

  Hercules (reared at Tiryns), here serving Omphale in Lydia; the butt of Faunus's nighttime blunder.

• The Festivals §4.proem Alcides

  Hercules (grandson of Alceus), who pastured Geryon's cattle on the Aventine and drank the Tiber.

• The Festivals §5.3 Alcides

  A patronymic of Hercules (grandson of Alceus).

• The Festivals §5.14 Tirynthian

  Hercules (reared at Tiryns), credited with replacing human victims with straw figures.

• The Festivals §6.4 Hercules the Guardian

  Hercules Custos, guardian of part of the Circus by an oracle from Euboean Cumae.

• The Festivals §6.30 Alcides

  Hercules, whose temple of the Muses closes the poem as he strikes the lyre.

• The Festivals §11 the club-bearing hero

  Hercules, returning from Spain with Geryon's cattle, lodges with Evander and kills Cacus.

• Ibis §15 gifts dipped in Nessus' poison

  Hercules, who put on the robe smeared with Nessus' poisoned blood and, in agony, dyed the Euboean sea with the blood of Lichas.

• Ibis §19 Hercules' limbs

  Hercules, whose limbs absorbed the venom of Nessus from the fatal robe.

• Metamorphoses §7.170 Hercules

  The greatest of Greek heroes (the Tirynthian); his dragging of Cerberus from the underworld and his returning band figure in Medea's flight.

• Metamorphoses §12.367 Hercules' bow

  The great hero (Tirynthian, Alcides), whose bow Asbolus foretells for Nessus; later he sacks Pylos and kills Nestor's brothers.

• Metamorphoses §13.385 Hercules

  The greatest Greek hero, who took Troy a generation before the war, with Telamon's aid.

• Metamorphoses §15.471 son of Jove

  Hercules, here driving home the cattle of Geryon past southern Italy.

• Metamorphoses §15.481 like Hercules'

  Hercules, byword for strength, to whom Milo's young arms were once compared.