The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . e subject of this mostfamous of the Herculean legends (of comparatively latedate) is distinguished as the Tirynthian Hercules fromother personifications of Hercules worshiped in dilferentplaces and countries (as the Cretan or the Egyptian Hercu-les, etc.), under the same or other names, the attributes ofthese various personifications being essentially the same,but their legeud;u-y history being ditferent. Hercules isrepresented as brawny and muscular, with broad
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . e subject of this mostfamous of the Herculean legends (of comparatively latedate) is distinguished as the Tirynthian Hercules fromother personifications of Hercules worshiped in dilferentplaces and countries (as the Cretan or the Egyptian Hercu-les, etc.), under the same or other names, the attributes ofthese various personifications being essentially the same,but their legeud;u-y history being ditferent. Hercules isrepresented as brawny and muscular, with broad shoul-ders, generally naked, or draped merely in the skin of theNemean lion, the head of the Hon being often drawn overthat of the hero as a helmet. He is usually armed with aclub, sometimes with a bow and arrows. Leave that labour to great Hercules ; And let it be more than Alcides twelve. Shak., T. of the S., i. 2. My Eustace might have sat for Hercules ; So muscular he spread, so broad of breast. Tennyson, Gardeners Daughter. 2. One of the ancient constellations, betweenLyra and Corona Borealis, representing a man *> ftx.
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