A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Classical Mythology

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Shakespeare's Myths

Apollodorus. The Library, II, iv, 8-II, vii, 8.

Diodorus Siculus. The Library of History, IV, 8-39.

Euripides. The Madness of Hercules.

Euripides.  Alcestis.

Hesiod. Theogony, 293-312.

Hesiod. The Shield of Herakles.

Homer. Iliad, VIII.362-69.

Homer. Odyssey, XI, 601-26.

Homer. “Hymn to Hercules”.

Hyginus. Fables, 30-36, 89. 

Ovid. Fasti, I, 543-82; II, 303-58.

Ovid. Heroides, IX: “Deianira to Hercules”.

Ovid. Metamorphoses, VII, 409-15; IX, 1-272; XI, 194-217; XII, 536-76.

Pausanias. Description of Greece, passim.

Seneca. Hercules Furens.

Seneca. Hercules Oetaeus.

Theocritus. Idylls, XXIV: “The little Hercules”; XXV: “Heracles the lion-slayer, or, the wealth of Augeas”.

Virgil. Aeneid, VIII, 184-305.

Xenophon. Memorabilia, II, i, 21-34.

How to cite

Charlotte Coffin. “Hercules.”  2009.  In A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology (2009-), ed. Yves Peyré. http://www.shakmyth.org/myth/111/hercules

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