Torso of Herakles

This is an ancient sculpture depicting Heracles, born Alcaeus, a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae, and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular, Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.本数据集为一尊描绘赫拉克勒斯（Heracles）的古代雕塑。赫拉克勒斯本名阿尔喀俄斯，是希腊神话中的半神英雄，为宙斯与阿尔克墨涅之子，安菲特律翁的养子。他同时也是珀尔修斯的曾孙与半兄弟——二者皆为宙斯所诞育。他是希腊最伟大的英雄，阳刚之典范，亦是自称赫拉克勒斯后裔（Heracleidae）的王室宗族的先祖，同时是奥林匹斯神系对抗冥府怪物的捍卫者。在罗马与现代西方语境中，他被称为赫拉克勒斯（Hercules），后世罗马皇帝尤其是康茂德与马克西米安常以其自居。罗马人基本完整承袭了希腊版的赫拉克勒斯生平与事迹，同时补充了自身的轶事细节，其中部分内容将这位英雄与地中海中部的地理风物相关联。其崇拜仪式的相关细节也被适配至罗马本土。