The mythological wrestling match between Heracles and Antagoras - Kos town (Kos Island, Greece)
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Depicted modern bronze statue, located in Antagoras square in historic centre of town Kos, represents the mythological wrestling match between Heracles and Antagoras.
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Location: Greece
Date Posted: 09/13/2015
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Depicted modern bronze statue, located in Antagoras square in historic centre of town Kos, represents the mythological wrestling match between Heracles and Antagoras.
According to Greek Mythology Heracles, at one time, found himself shipwrecked on Kos. He met the strong shepherd Antagoras and asked to buy one of his rams. Antagoras said that he would give him the ram if Heracles would overpower him in a wrestling match. Heracles, however, was defeated and took refuge in Fyxa, near Pyli. The myth symbolizes the fights for domination by the Dorian Heraclidae in Kos.
Heracles, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well. [wiki]