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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Amongst these were slaying the many-headed Hydra, retrieving the Golden Apples of the Hesperides and bringing the hellhound Cerberus up from the Underworld. Heracles was also an Argonaut.

在这些行动中,他杀了凶残的九头蛇怪兽,偷了赫斯帕里德斯(译者注:传说中守护金苹果树的仙女)的金苹果.活捉冥府看门狗地狱之犬并从地府带了上来.海格力斯也是亚尔古的船员(译者注:去海外寻找金羊毛的古船).

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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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