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Origin of the name HERAKLES.
Etymology of the
name HERAKLES.
Meaning of the baby name HERAKLES.
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HERAKLES (Ἡρακλῆς). Greek
name meaning "lordly fame."
It is usual to explain as Ἡρα-κλῆς
(fame of Hera) the name of the son of Zeus and Alcmena, whose bitterest
foe Hera
was, according to the current legends of Greece; but noble fame is a far
more probable origin for Herakles, compound as he is of the oft-repeated
Sun-myth mixed with the veritable Samson, and the horrible Phoenician
Melkarth or Moloch, with whom the Tyrians themselves identified Herakles.
(History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884).
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