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	Heracles
		Heracles underook the hunt at the request of Thespius, a son of Erechtheus, the king of Athens, himself king of the nearby city of Thespiæ he had founded in Boeotia.
		Deiareina was the daughter of Oeneus, king of Pleuron and Calydon in Ætolia, on the northern shore of the gulf of Corinth.
		Heracles and Deiareina settled at the court of king Ceyx in Trachis.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/char/heracles.htm (2487 words)

	Pillars of Hercules - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pillars of Hercules is the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
		Strabo notes (3.5.5–6) that the two bronze pillars within the temple, each 8 cubits high, were widely proclaimed to be the true Pillars of Heracles by many who had visited the place and had sacrificed to Heracles there.
		The Pillars Of Hercules is a pub in London, with literary connections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pillars_of_Heracles (587 words)

	Heracles 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Heracles 1 and Achelous wrestled for the hand of Deianira 1, daughter of Oeneus 2 and Althaea, or of Dionysus 2 and Althaea, or of Dexamenus 1, son of Oeceus.
		Heracles 4 was born very much earlier than Heracles 1; because both bore the same name, the deeds of Heracles 4, son of Zeus and Lysithoe, were transferred to Heracles 1, the majority of men being ignorant of actual facts, as some have observed.
		Heracles 6, a son of Zeus and Asteria 1, is chiefly worshipped at Tyre.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Heracles1.html (5693 words)

	Melqart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek he was normally referred to as the Tyrian Herakles and in Latin as the Tyrian Hercules, presumably because of a close resemblance to the Greek hero/god Herakles in mythology and cult.
		Near Gades/Gadeira (modern Cádiz) was the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, near the eastern shore of the island (Strabo 3.5.2–3).
		Heracles' companion Iolaus brought a quail to the dead god (presumably a roasted quail) and its delicious scent roused Heracles back to life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melqart (1673 words)

	Heracles
		Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene.
		The Shield of Heracles was ascribed to Hesiod.
		The seventh labour, Heracles needed to fetch the Cretan Bull, the bull that belonged to Minos, king of Crete.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/heracles.html (8611 words)

	Hercules Page
		Heracles' second labor was to destroy an enormous serpent, the Hydra("water serpent") with many heads that lived near the swamps of Lerna southeast of Mycenae, where it ravaged the fields and livestock.
		Heracles at last drove the boar from the thick bush with his magnificent voice, ran it down in a snow bank, threw it across his back, and carried the boar to Eurystheus, who beheld it in terror from the bottom of his bronze jar.
		Heracles was sent on his tenth labor to capture the cattle of Geryon, who had three bodies joined at the waist and lived on the island of Eythia(meaning "red land," perhaps named after the colors of the sunset) in the far west near the river Ocean by the Pillars of Heracles(Straits of Gibraltar).
	members.tripod.com /~Kekrops/Twelve_Labors.html (2377 words)

	Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 11: ...
		Heracles ground his teeth in pain as the hound held his wrist in his teeth, but he brought his club down with a crack on the creature's free and menacing head, splitting the skull.
		Heracles watched his victim fall off his horse and land face down in the mud along the riverbank, then he picked up a stick and, hitting the hindlegs of the cattle, he got them moving again toward the sea.
		Heracles tried to chase them in their mad scramble and he had finally cornered most of them near the Strymon River, but the nasty Hera had planted gadfly eggs there too, so the cattle went wild again.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/heracles11.htm (2288 words)

	Pillars of Heracles - Pillars of Hercules - Location
		The "pillars of Herakles", given the limits of Libya (surely similar geographically to modern Libya) and Terrine (Thera), were thus at the "bottleneck" of the Mediterranean between today's Tunisia and the island of Sicily.
		Plato writes: [Atlas's] twin brother...obtained as his lot the extremity of the island towards the Pillars of Heracles, as far as the country which is still called the region of Gades [Hades, Gates]...
		The "island" outside the pillars of Herakles was the rest of Africa (BUT excluding Libya) Indeed, Carthage was later a city in the region of modern Tunisia from which Hannibal and his elephants came.
	www.lexiline.com /lexiline/lexi60.htm (858 words)

	Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to him this island, lying "beyond the pillars of Hercules", was a naval power, having conquered many parts of western Europe and Africa.
		Soon after a failed invasion of Athens, Atlantis sank in the waves "in a single day and night of misfortune" due to a natural catastrophe which happened 9,000 years before Plato's time.
		This changed with Alexander the Great’s eastward expansion and the Pillars were moved by Eratosthenes to Gibraltar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantis (3525 words)

	Heracles, Hercules, Greece, Greek mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heracles was one of the most popular heroes of Greek mythology, and his many feats were constantly retold in art and literature.
		While Heracles was just a baby in the cradle, she sent two snakes which the child strangled, one in each hand.
		Heracles took the sky on his shoulders while Atlas went to get the apples, but when he returned he did not want to take over the burden of the sky again.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/heracles.htm (881 words)

	Plato's Dialogues
		For because of the greatness of their empire many things were brought to them from foreign countries, and the island itself provided most of what was required by them for the uses of life.
		These were inscribed by the first kings on a pillar of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were gathered together every fifth and every sixth year alternately, thus giving equal honor to the odd and to the even number.
		Heracles and Hercules are variations on the spelling and pronunciation of the same person.
	atlantis.haktanir.org /Plato.html (4522 words)

	CliffsNotes::Mythology:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Heracles was dismayed and said he needed a cushion to ease the load, whereupon the stupid Atlas took back the burden and Heracles picked up the apples and sauntered off.
		Nevertheless, Heracles fathered three sons on Omphale, rid her kingdom of bandits, captured a band of evil spirits, killed two murderous kings who forced strangers to work for them, and slew a gigantic serpent that was devastating the land.
		Heracles had married Deianeira, and after accidentally killing her brother-in-law he was forced to flee.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-83,pageNum-52.html (1073 words)

	The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles: Chapter 25
		Heracles told the king that he would clean the stables if he were given one tenth of the cattle and the goats for a reward.
		Heracles broke into the stable where the horses were; he caught three of them by their heads, and although they kicked and bit and trampled he forced them out of the stable and down to the seashore, where his companion, Abderus, waited for him.
		Heracles drew his bow and he shot the horses with the unerring arrows that were dipped with the gall of the Hydra he had slain.
	www.kellscraft.com /GoldenFleece/GoldenFleeceCh25.html (8551 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Imagining Atlantis by Richard Ellis
		To the Greeks, the Pillars of Hercules--the name given to the twin rocks that define the passage we know as the Straits of Gibraltar--represented the gateway from the known Mediterranean to the unknown mysteries beyond.
		The poet Pindar wrote that the Pillars of Hercules were, almost literally, the end of the world: "Now Theron, approaching the outer limit of his feats of strength, touches the Pillars of Hercules.
		They say in the sea outside the Pillars of Hercules an unidentified island was discovered by the Carthaginians, many days' sail from shore, which has all kinds of trees, and navigable rivers, and a marvelous variety of other resources.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375705823&view=excerpt (1718 words)

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		The pillars of Heracles are a critical landmark in distinguishing the two areas.
		If the pillars were really to the north, south or east, or between Egypt and Greece, one or both would have been inside the Atlantean territory.
		Atlantis was therefore generally to the west of the pillars, in or on the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.grahamhancock.com /underworld/CrispDanAtlantis.php?p=1 (1791 words)

	Lost Continent of Atlantis: Myth or Reality? (Chapter X: Interpretation of Plato's Work)
		I visited the temple, and found it richly adorned with a number of offerings, among which were two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of emerald, shining with great brilliancy at night.
		Plato also says: "All these and their descendants for many generations were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the open sea; and also, as has been already said, they held sway in our direction over the country within the Pillars as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia".
		The slaves would work in these mines, whose ceilings were supported by pillars of unmined rock or by stone walls.
	atlantis.haktanir.org /ch10.html (1715 words)

	Atlantis, Greek Mythology Link.
		Atlantis was a large island in the Atlantic Ocean which lay in front of the mouth of the pillars of Heracles (straits of Gibraltar).
		Their inhabitants became a spiritually ugly race and for that reason Zeus and the gods destroyed them by letting the island be swallowed up by the sea.
		The ten kings, who governed each his own province, are said to have assembled every fifth year and every sixth year, administering the public affairs and delivering judgement according to the law which Poseidon handed down to them and, according to records inscribed in a pillar of orichalcum.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Atlantis.html (1526 words)

	The Men of Greek Mythology
		Atlas was a son of Iapetus and Clymene and he was more than just a pillar of strength (wow i'm just full of bad puns).
		Heracles, called Hercules by the Romans, is the most well-known of the Greek Heroes.
		Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (see Alcmene for the story of his conception).
	www.paleothea.com /Men.html (3760 words)

	Hercules (or Heracles)
		Hercules (or Heracles) is thought to be one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology.
		The name Heracles itself is significant since it means "The Glory of Hera." It is believed that Heracles was not the name of a god, but perhaps a ritual name, deliberately adopted by a votary of the goddess or assigned by sacerdotal tradition to a "consort" of the great goddess Argos.
		There he set up two pillars, which marked the edge of Oceanus (the "Pillars of Oceanus," which are currently called the Rock of Gibraltar and Cape Ceuta).
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/hercules_or_heracles.html (3037 words)

	CLAS 231: Chapter Fourteen
		Atlas brings presents the apples to Heracles and Athena, from a metope of the temple of Zeus at Olympia (ca.
		Heracles as the man who wanted to become a god, vs. Jesus as the god who became a human
		Luther, Henry VIII and Zwingli all compared to Heracles "slaying the many-headed hydra of the papism"
	www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/courses/231/cl231u14.htm (577 words)

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		Between the pillars of Heracles and the Americas fit Atlantis and a string of islands of unspecified size, again suggesting that Atlantis was fairly close to the pillars.
		We are not told, for example, that Atlantis had to be crossed to reach the other side of the ocean, as might have been the case with an island formed by the uplifted mid-Atlantic Ridge.
		The pillars are mentioned first, an important geographical landmark, marking the end of the Mediterranean.
	www.grahamhancock.com /underworld/CrispDanAtlantis.php?p=2 (1464 words)

	Answers to questions concerning Plato's Atlantis narratives
		Plato also describes Atlantis as "an island (nesos) situated in front of (pro) the straits which are by you called the pillars of Heracles." The Greek word pro can be translated "before," or "in front of".
		In a word, No! If there existed a single shred of evidence, an inscription, a writing, or a reference calling these features the "pillars of Heracles," the proponents of the Minoan Hypothesis would be touting it from the highest hilltops--but no such evidence is ever brought forth.
		This left the sea outside the Pillars unnavigable because it was extremely shallow.
	www.atlantisquest.com /Plato.html (2791 words)

	Atlantis Comparison of Translations
		Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles and all those that dwelt within them.
		For it is related in our records how once upon a time your state stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot.
		For the ocean there was at that time navigable: for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, "the pillars of Heracles" (1), there lay an island which was larger than Libya (2) and Asia together
	www.geocities.com /atlantisreviews/AtlantisComparisonofTranslations.htm (1554 words)

	Pillars of Heracles
		As Heracles was performing the tenth of the twelve labors, he came to the western edge of Africa, near to the coast of Europe (the modern-day Straight of Gibraltar).
		To celebrate his journey to where the ocean meets the land, Heracles erected two pillars.
		When ancient authors mention the Pillars of Heracles, it is this place to which they are referring.
	dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Heroes/Heracles/pillars_of_heracles.htm (70 words)

	Pillars of Hercules. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		They are usually identified with Gibraltar in Europe and with Mt. Acha at Ceuta in Africa.
		The Jebel Musa (W of Ceuta) is also considered one of the pillars.
		They are also referred to as the Gates of Hercules.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pi/PillarsH.html (107 words)

	The History of the Two Pillars in Freemasonry
		These pillars were the nucleus of the ancient
		The Hebrew metaphor of the pillar of cloud by
		pillars of wood or stone, and particularly of
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /history_of_the_two_pillars.htm (2078 words)

	ipedia.com: Hanno the Navigator Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the island which formed the terminus of his voyage the explorer found a number of hairy women, whom the interpreters called Gorillas.
		The full Greek title is The Voyage of Hanno, commander of the Carthaginians, round the parts of Libya beyond the Pillars of Heracles, which he deposited in the temple of Cronus.
		"Moreover, Hanno the Libyan started out from Carthage and passed the pillars of Heracles and sailed into the outer Ocean, with Libya on his port side, and he sailed on towards the east, five-and-thirty days all told.
	www.ipedia.com /hanno_the_navigator.html (444 words)

	LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS IN THE ARTIC OCEAN? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The strait forming the exit of the Mediteranean was known to the ancient Greeks as the Pillars of Heracles and to the ancient Romans as the Pillar of Hercules (the Greek and Roman names are equivalent referring to the same legendary man ie of great strength).
		If the Egyptian priests were describing a strait and a set of pillars anywhere beyond the Mediterranean Solon would have not had any knowledge of where they might be and would have immediately taken them to mean the greatest known strait of the time the exit of the Mediterranean.
		In not doing so, the priest it seems appears to be avoiding confirming these straits as being the Pillars of Herecles preferring to say `the straits we were talking about' and by not referring to the sea inside the straits as the Mediteranean.
	www.angelfire.com /film/atlantis_1/Page004.html (8443 words)

	Plato's relevant statements and a commentary
		In the interior of the temple the roof was of ivory, curiously wrought everywhere with
		These were inscribed by the first kings on a pillar of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither
		At Santuario de Quillacas the red and fl stones with white mortar were used in the church pillars to give an appearance such as Plato suggested.
	www.geocities.com /atlantisreviews/Platosrelevantstatementsandacommentary.htm (4267 words)

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