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Hercules

deity earth Roman corroborated · 20

The architecture of a granary (horreum) featured niches for images of the tutelary deities, who might include Hercules.

↻ synthesized from 20 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Republican and Imperial eras of Rome.

Relationships

parent of
Anicetus, Alexiares, Aventinus
co occurs with
Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, Hestia, Ptah, Api, Tabiti, Papaios, Argimpasa, Terminus, Aphrodite Urania, Ceres, Neptune, Juno Regina, Latona, Saturnus, Great Mother of the gods, Silvanus, Sol Invictus, Sol Indiges, Magusanus, *Dyēus, Libertas, Marianne, Dutch Maiden, Leo Belgicus, Shazam, Solomon, Sentinel One, Sentinel Seven, Prime Sentinel, MO, Black Adam, Shazamo, Oggar, Freyja, Wōden, Týr, Enodia, Kore, Nike, Aesculapius, Phosphorus, Pyroeis, Phaenon, Stilbon, Vesper, Acca Larentia, Son, Pleione, Ariadne, child-Pan, Lares, Genius, Magna Mater, Mars Camulus, Penates, Gaia, Amon, Dionysus, Osiris, Hephaestus, Janus, Minerva, Vesta, Juno, Fortuna, Vulcan, Mithra, Achilles, Isis, Odin, drakaina, Apollo, Aphrodite, Venus, Hesperus, Hermes, Cronus, Phaethon, Eos, God, Virgin, Baal, Saturn, Zeus, Medusa, Perseus, Triton, genius loci, Victory, satyr, Pan, Silenus, Bacchus
syncretized with
Ares, Hercules Magusanus, Thor, Magusanus, Magunasus, Melqart, Vahagn, *Þunraz, Ercol, Mars
aspect of
Her[e]cle
allied with
Diana, Mercury, Astrea
manifests as
planet Mars
enemy of
Atlas, Typhon, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, Cacus
manifested by
Hercules tutator, Her[e]cle, Hercle, Heracles, Alcide
child of
Jupiter

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Mentioned by

and 41 more

Sources

wikipedia (18)
  1. Tutelary deity
  2. Sol Invictus
  3. Lectisternium
  4. Interpretatio graeca
  5. Hercules Magusanus
  6. "Isis" of the Suebi
  7. Liberty (personification)
  8. Captain Marvel Jr.
  9. Space Sentinels
  10. Wizard Shazam
  11. Tierkrieger
  12. Soldier of the Mist
  13. Planetae
  14. Atlas (Marvel Comics)
  15. Commodus as Hercules
  16. Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus (Lyon)
  17. Hercules (constellation)
  18. Acca Larentia
encyclopedia (2)
  1. Acca Larentia (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Adoration (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“The architecture of a granary (horreum) featured niches for images of the tutelary deities, who might include the genius loci or guardian spirit of the site, Hercules”

#9082 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Invictus ("unconquered, invincible") was an epithet utilized for several Roman deities, including Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo, and Silvanus. It had been in use from the 3rd century BC.”

#17314 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Thus Hercules was not worshipped as at the Ara Maxima, where, according to Servius and Cornelius Balbus a lectisternium was forbidden.”

#19896 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“the linguistic transformation of Greek Heracles to Etruscan Her[e]cle to Roman Hercules”

#25323 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The name Hercules Magusanus is a syncretism between the Graeco-Roman divine hero Hercules and the local deity or hero Magusanus.”

#26190 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5