http://tonibadnall.com/2009/10/20/greek-myth-3-heracles/ My Adventures in Ancient Greek Literature Mon, 16 May 2011 04:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://tonibadnall.com/2009/10/20/greek-myth-3-heracles/#comment-24 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:52:30 +0000 http://tonibadnall.com/?p=60#comment-24 I think Herodotus may have mentioned something about the dual nature of Heracles. He (or some ancient writer anyway!) suggested that there was a distinction between the God Heracles, and the Hero Heracles and that even back in the 5th Century people were mixing them up. It’s interesting that even back then writers were well aware of the paradoxes of Heracles.

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