Torso of a statue of Heracles

This is a preserved torso part of a marble statue of Heracles. Heracles born was 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 an 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. The sculpture was discovered in the Gymnasium of Salamis, Cyprus本藏品为赫拉克勒斯（Heracles）大理石雕像残存的躯干部分。赫拉克勒斯是希腊神话中的半神英雄，为宙斯与阿尔克墨涅所生，同时也是安菲特律翁的养子。他是珀尔修斯的曾外孙与同父异母兄弟——二者皆为宙斯所诞育之子。他是希腊最伟大的英雄，是阳刚气概的典范，亦是自称赫拉克利德（Heracleidae）的王室宗族的先祖，同时还是奥林匹斯神系对抗冥界魔物的捍卫者。在罗马与现代西方世界中，他以赫拉克勒斯（Hercules）之名为人熟知，后世罗马皇帝尤其是康茂德与马克西米安常以他自居。罗马人基本完整沿用了希腊版本中关于他的生平与事迹，但加入了属于他们的轶事细节，其中部分内容将这位英雄与地中海中部的地理风貌联系起来。他的祭祀仪式细节也被适配至罗马本土。该雕像残件出土于塞浦路斯萨拉米斯的古希腊体育馆遗址。