Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, though not altogether headless. Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the ...

Two talented Greek Australians have brought the iconic hero of Hercules to life in a new art form, creating a sand sculpture ...

However, Zeus liked Heracles so much that he took him to Mount Olympus and made him immortal. Watch the video below to find out how another famous Greek hero, Perseus, killed a monster called Medusa.

This action showed Eurystheus’s ability to use Heracles’s hero status to strengthen his political connections with other Greek leaders. Heracles’s rising political influence and popularity ...

For Heracles‘s tenth labor, King Eurystheus commanded the hero to journey to the edge of the known world and steal the ...

Whatever the precise origin of the games, they became a central aspect of Greek ... by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia, an alternative myth has the hero Pelops ...