![]() ![]() But due to his great physical strength the child throttled a snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were toys. Hera first sent two serpents to kill him as he lay in his crib. Instead Hera decided to make the life of Hercules a living hell. Hera wanted to take her revenge on the child of the illicit union but she was not able to kill him because he was one of the immortals. Not only that Zeus had put put the infant to suckle milk at the breast of Hera as she slept which ensured that Hercules became one of the immortals. The wife of Zeus (Hera in Greek and Juno was the Roman name) was furious that he had been unfaithful. Amphitryon became the foster father of the child. ![]() The god Zeus visited Alcmene, disguised as a Theban general called Amphitryon, and Hercules was conceived. ![]() Alcmene was the beautiful daughter of Electryon, who was the son of Perseus and the King of Mycenae. Hercules was a divine hero and according to the myth he was the son of the god Zeus (the King of the Gods - Roman name Jupiter) and Alcmene. Background to the Hercules Mythology - The Myths surrounding the Classical HeroĬlassical Mythology tells the story, myth or legend of the great classical hero of the Greeks and the Romans. ![]()
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