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Heracles: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth

Heracles: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth

Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara), Peta

Paperback

Series: The Ancient Worlds and Sacred Cosmologies

Literary CriticismReligion General Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1764677870
ISBN13: 9781764677875
Publisher: Peta Oakes
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Heracles: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth explores one of the most enduring heroic figures of the ancient Mediterranean through mythology, worship, sacred landscape, and artistic tradition.

Heracles was far more than a slayer of monsters. Born between mortal suffering and divine ancestry, he became a figure of endurance, purification, protection, and transformation. His labours carried him across the known world and beyond its boundaries, confronting lions, serpents, sacred beasts, violent rulers, impossible tasks, and the realm of the dead.

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