Details of Hercules personified on coins
Hercules is one of the most recognisable gods. He is almost always shown naked and with his famous attributes of a club and a lion’s skin (here worn knotted around his neck).
He is a popular subject on coins of the Roman Republic, which often show is 12 labours, and on those struck in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
Attributes
- Usually naked
- Club
- Lion's skin
Greek counterpart
Hercules can be identified with the Greek deity Heracles
Wikipedia derived information
Hercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter), and the mortal Alcmene.
Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italic shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength who dedicated the Ara Maxima that became associated with the earliest Roman cult of Hercules. While adopting much of the Greek Heracles' iconography and mythology as his own, Hercules adopted a number of myths and characteristics that were distinctly Roman. With the spread of Roman hegemony, Hercules was worshiped locally from Hispania through Gaul..
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules
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