Hercules - Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

Grade II Listed on 29th January 1985 this statue is of carved marble and is made by Laurent Delvaux in about 1725. The statue was probably made for Wanstead House in Essex with another statue of Omphale, Queen of Lydia. Hercules holds a distaff which symbolises his three year humiliation when he was a slave to Omphale; he was being punished for murder. He also holds a tambourine and stands on a 19th century pedestal.

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'Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek demigod Heracles, son of Jupiter (the Roman equivalent of Zeus), and the mortal Alcmena. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italic shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength, who dedicated the Ara Maxima that became associated with the earliest Roman cult of Hercules. While adopting much of the Greek Heracles' iconography and mythology as his own, Hercules adopted a number of myths and characteristics that were distinctly Roman. With the spread of Roman hegemony, Hercules was worshiped locally from Hispania through Gaul.'

Time Period: Ancient Approximate Date of Epic Period: c. 900-800 BC onwards Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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