were does hercules come from..?
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HERAKLES\n\nMeans "glory of Hera" from the name of the goddess HERA combined with Greek κλεος (kleos) "glory". He was a hero in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene. He completed twelve labours in order to become a god.\n\nLegend has it that Herakles' first name really was Alkaios or Alkeides and only the Pythia in Delphi (a holy female seer) adressed him by the name Herakles for the first time, when he came before her.
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let hercules try.  he can only do what he can do and just like every one else, he will get his 15 minutes of fame.
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Enceladus is one of Saturn's moons (6th largest), named after a Greek mythological giant, so it comes from Ancient Greek presumably.
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Oh my God!  Where did he come from!!!!!^^^^^^^
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Ajax.\n\nHe was a hero in the Iliad, "described as the tallest of the Achaeans, second only to his cousin Achilles in strength and bravery."  \n\nquoted from website below.
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Actually Triton was a "lesser" greek God.\n\nHe is a sea God and I'm sure that is the connection in Disney's movie (which was actually an adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderson story. Hans is the one who first used Triton.)
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1) Suez canal\n\n2) Zeus ...greek god
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In Hesiod's version of the Greek creation myth, Chaos (which is like nothingness) came first. Then come Gaea and Ouranos (the Earth and Sky). They gave birth to the Titans, who made the Olympians, and so on.
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Hello again....\n\nI was always intrigued by the story of the Minotaur and the great Labrynth of Knossos....or was it Crete, nope that was the king, I believe....anyway, I digress...\n\nThe story of Perseus and Medusa also struck a chord - as a girl I was busting to have a horse just like Pegasus.\n\nThe first movie I ever went to see (that I remember) was Clash of the Titans and I don't think I ever got over the romance of it all......
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Horus\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm\n\n\nEdit:\nAll of the research I have done claims that Horus was born of a virgin...so the myth goes anyways.
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the argo\nbut it was not hercules because that is the name the romans gave him the name the greeks gave him was heracles.
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for the most part, no.  i couldn't say where they DO come from, but it's not human, that much is obvious.  i've seen the ones people claim, and there are definite differences in appearance between the manmade ones and the unexplained ones.  the unexplained tend to be more perfect and symmetrical than the manmade ones.
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Seahorses - yes\nMermaids/mermen - i wish, but not currently\nAtlantis - i think yes, it did exist at some point,  because of the oral legends.  For years people thought Troy was only a legend, and then evidence of where it was was, was found (in the 70's or 80's i think).  So, i'm holding out hope for Atlantis....
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Most of the 'myth' we have of Antigone is from Sophocles' play by the same name.  In fact, it seems that perhaps Sophocles invented her and her name.  She does not appear in any other Greek literature before him.\n\nFor a synopsis of her story see the Perseus link below.\n\nFor a very detailed discussion of her and her myth (as well as any others, consult T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (usually 2 vols, but 1 vol available).\n\n\nThomas Talboy, PhD, Director\nUbiquity International, LLC\nExperience. Explore. Embrace the World.(TM)\nhttp://www.ubiquityinternational.com
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hmmm...i think the guy up there said everything from wikipedia...but i read the hole story myself a few years ago.king minos(son of zeus and europe),for proving his the son of zeus(and to become king of crete),prayed to poseidon,his uncle,to make a bull get born from the sea,promising that he'll sacrifice the bull to poseidon.but when minos saw the beautiful white bull,he put it in his herd.poseidon,angry,punished minos by giving him a son,with human body and bull head.becuz the minotaur,when he grew up,was eating every servent in the palace,minos ordred to the architect daedalus to make a castle from where nobody cud get out.daedalus invented the labirinth,and the minotaur was locked in.theseus,son of poseidon and etra(that was married with egeus while she had relations with poseidon)came to athens to see his step father,but he finds out that it was the time of the year when the athenian had to pay to king minos 7 girls and 7 boys to be given as food to the minotaur.theseus went too,wanting to kill the monster.but arriving to crete,the daughter of minos,ariadna,got in love with theseus and helped him by giving him a ball of wool and a dagger.theseus killed the minotaur,and folowing the thread they got out of the labirinth.they went back to athens,but king egeus seeing the black sails he thought theseus was death and threw himself in the sea to die.from then the sea got the name of egeum sea from his name.
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The Romans basically took their gods from the Greeks, by way of the Etruscans.  The names are different but the stories are pretty similar.
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where do you people come from ????