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Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek divine hero, Heracles. Heracles was born and raised in Thebes by his mortal mother, Alcmene, and his mortal step/foster father, Amphitryon. His biological father was the King of the Gods, Zeus. He was originally named Alcides but was renamed Heracles in an unsuccessful attempt to please Hera, Zeus's goddess wife, who hated the child because he was the result of her husband, Zeus's, affair with Alcmene.

The Romans adopted the Greek version of his myth but changed his name slightly to Hercules.

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