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Heracles is the most popular character of satyr-play after Silenus and the satyrs themselves, and his predominant role is that of fighting evil-doers. Satyr-drama, with its fairy-tale like settings and characters, was the most suitable for accommodating Heracles, who often transgressed the borders between civilization and wildness as well as between humanity and bestiality. The excess of his behaviour, whether good or bad, was suitable for comedy, too. It is usually his insatiable appetite and excessive drinking, which mingle with his traditional role as the mighty hero and the punisher of the wicked, that make Heracles comic. Thus in Aristophanes’ Birds he is determined to throttle whoever objects to the gods, only to change his mind at the smell of food (1574–90).
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Heracles' two most famous clashes with Ajax were the two cup games for which Ajax came to Almelo in 1974 and 1996. Remarkably, on both occasions Ajaxvisited the modest First Division club as the reigning world champions, but both times Heracles caused a tremendous upset by knocking the Amsterdammers out of the cup. In December 1974 two goals in extra timemade Bornsestraat stadiumgo mad: 4-2. In 1996, when Louis van Gaal's unbeatable (?)teamvisited Almelo, Heracles did it again: 1-0.
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Heracles 1 received an oracle anyway, which declared that the cure for his disease was for him to be sold, to serve for three years as a slave, and to pay compensation for the death of Iphitus 1. So Hermes sold Heracles 1, and he was bought by Omphale, queen of Lydia. During this servitude, he punished the CERCOPES at Ephesus, killed Syleus in Aulis, buried Icarus, and threw a stone against a statue by Daedalus representing him. And some say that it is after and not before his time with Omphale that he killed King Laomedon 1, rescued Hesione 2, and put Priam 1 in the throne of Troy (see 23.). Some say ... that it is about this time that the expedition of the ARGONAUTS and the Calydonian Boar Hunt took place. Heracles 1 was one of the ARGONAUTS.
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Pindar too,23 for whom Heracles became the ideal ethical hero, constantly stressed that Heracles was doing a service to mankind in ridding it of evil creatures who violated human and divine laws (e.g. Nem. 1.62–6; Ol. 10.34), and he ... rejected the stories of Heracles’ hubristic attacks on the gods (Ol. 9.30–41). Even in favourable approaches to Heracles, there is a tendency to define his arete not in terms of his physical strength but in terms of his spiritual qualities.
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In Christian circles a Euhemerist reading of the widespread Heracles/Hercules cult was attributed to a historical figure who had been offered cult status after his death. Thus Eusebius, Preparation of the Gospel (10.12), reported that Clement could offer historical dates for Hercules as a king in Argos: "from the reign of Hercules in Argos to the deification of Hercules himself and of Asclepius there are comprised thirty-eight years, according to Apollodorus the chronicler: and from that point to the deification of Castor and Pollux fifty-three years: and somewhere about this time was the capture of Troy."
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While Heracles 1 was hunting the Erymanthian Boar, he was received by Pholus 1 the Centaur. On this occasion, a jar of wine belonging to the CENTAURS in common was opened, and when the CENTAURS learned that their jar had been taken, a fight broke up, in the course of which Heracles 1 repelled them. The defeated CENTAURS took then refuge with the wise Centaur Chiron, and Heracles 1 shot Chiron involuntarily with his poisoned arrows. The wound proving incurable, Chiron renounced immortality in favour of Prometheus 1.
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