Finally, Heracles restored some castanets given to him by the goddess Athena.

终于，赫拉克勒斯修复了雅典娜女神给他的一些响板。

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Heracles killed the Giants Alcyoneus and Porphyrion.

赫拉克勒斯杀死了巨人阿尔库俄纽斯和波耳费里翁。

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Hercules was the name by which the Greek mythological character Heracles was known to the Romans. Heracles, to give him his proper Greek name, was the most famous of the Greek mythological heroes.

大力神的传说:海格力斯(AKA大力神)这个名字是古希腊的神话人物,由古罗马传说的赫拉克利斯(译者注:为大力英雄的意思)而来.赫拉克利斯被赋予了一个合适的希腊名字,并成为了古希腊神话中最有名的一个英雄人物.为了赎罪,他被迫接受了十二试炼,完成了一系列的英雄任务,和艰苦的劳务.

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The Greeks told stories about the mythic heroes Heracles and Pelops to explain why there was a great festival at the site both heroes were claimed as founding fathers who gave thanks for divine assistance.

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For the Greeks, the medical term for rabies (lyssa) also described an extreme sort of murderous hate, an insensate, animal rage that seizes Hector in "The Iliad" and, in Euripides' tragedy of Heracles, goads the hero to slay his own family.

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In order to establish their credentials within the Hellenic world the Carthaginians conflated the Greek hero, Heracles (better known as Hercules), with Melqart, his Tyrian counterpart.

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