Hercules

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §7 Hercules

  The hero-god; he slays Cacus here and receives the one foreign cult Romulus keeps, at the Ara Maxima.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §13 Hercules

  The deified hero, honored at the first lectisternium; his crossing of the Alps was the stuff of legend.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §29 Hercules

  The hero-god of the Greatest Altar, whose hereditary cult Appius transferred and whose statue was set on the Capitol.

• The History of Rome, Book 10 §23 Hercules

  The deified hero, worshipped at the round temple in the Forum Boarium.

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §21 Hercules

  The hero-god whom Hannibal honored at Gades; Punic Melqart was identified with him.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §14 temple of Hercules

  Hannibal rides up to the temple of Hercules by the Colline gate to survey Rome's walls.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §20 temple of Hercules

  Hercules, the deified hero, whose temple and gymnasium at Cynosarges Philip burned.

• The History of Rome, Book 32 §2 Hercules

  The deified hero, in whose temple hair was said to have grown.

• The History of Rome, Book 36 §22 Hercules

  The hero-god whose mortal body was burned on the Pyre atop Oeta, where Acilius sacrificed.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §13 Hercules

  Hercules, invoked in the oath 'mehercule' ('by Hercules').

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §16 Hercules

  The deified hero Hercules, invoked here in a common Roman oath ('by Hercules').