There are as many different versions of Hercules' life story as there are storytellers. Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Antikensammlung Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Staatliche Walks with a procession of gods and goddesses to Olympus. Side B: Hercules, carrying his club and wearing his lion skin, Hercules was worshipped in many temples all over Greece and Rome.īerlin F 2278, Attic red figure kylix, c. More stories were told about him than any other hero. Hercules was both the most famous hero of ancient times and the most beloved. Yet, his story is of a man who was so strong and courageous, whose deeds were so mighty, and who so endured all the hardships that were given to him, that when he died, Hercules was brought up to Mount Olympus to live with the gods. Was there a real Hercules, a man behind the stories? We will never know.
Stories about the gods, called myths, were made up thousands of years ago.
