Hercules / Heracles

Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek god Herakles /Heracles.

Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmena wife of the Theban general Amphitryon.. Juno /Hera, the jealous wife of Jupiter, sent two serpents to kill Hercules as he lay in his cradle. However he strangled them with his bare hands. Hercules was compelled by Juno's artifices to undertake the 'Twelve Labours of Hercules.' during the undertaking of these tasks Hercules visits the land of the Hyperboreans. 

Hercules was accidentally poisoned by his wife and after climbing Mount Etna he built a himself a funeral pyre. 

Hercules was worshipped both as a god and as a mortal hero.

To us there can hardly be any mistake as to the two personal names being echoes of those of Albion and Iverion, Britain and Ireland.from Prof Rhys - Celtic Folklore

The eleventh of Hercules' Twelve Labours' was to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides. The Garden of the Hesperides was said to be 'beyond the famous sea, that the golden fruit was guarded by a terrible serpent, and that the garden was situated at a place where Atlas upheld broad heaven, standing on earth's verge.'

Because Hercules did not know where these apples were, he sought help from Atlas, father of the Hesperides. Atlas agreed to help him if Hercules would support the world on his shoulders while Atlas got the apples. The old man did not wish to resume his burden, but Hercules tricked Atlas into taking the world back. Hercules returned with the apples to Eurystheus.

The geographer Ptolemy called Lundy island the 'Isle of Hercules.'