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Hercules

also: Heracles, Herculis

The greatest Greek hero, famed for his twelve labors. Lucretius lists the monsters he overcame only to argue that the inner monsters Epicurus subdued were far more dangerous.

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On the Nature of Things poetry · 1 mention

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