Meanings
- archaicArchaic spelling of Heracles.
If, as some say, the older dedication was really not to Thêseus but to Hêraklês, the parallel is in no way weakened, but rather strengthened.
1893, Edward Augustus Freeman, Studies of Travel: Greece, G. P. Putnam’s sons, page 361 more example
So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.¹
1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page 485
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