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Herakles in a Greek vase painting, ca. 460–450 BC
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Hercules is the divine protector of humankind the god of athletes and the guardian of the gates of Olympia,
Athena his sister helped him when he had to work on the 12 labours.
He was 7 feet tall or 2,13 meters tall, carried a club of olive tree, was an expert in the bow and arrow and dressed with the skin of the Nemea´s lion which was impenetrable!
There is a constellation, the fifth largest, that honors him:
During July, look for the pattern of stars representing the famous strongman of mythology practically directly overhead by around 10 or 11 P.M.
"Hercules and the Corona Borealis" London, 1825 by Jehoshaphat Aspin
And what is a constellation?
