Hercules or Heracles, classical hero. Shown holding a club and wearing the skin of the Nemean lion. With Omphale, queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. Copperplate engraving from Andrew Tooke’s The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, London, 1757.

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