The Roll of Hercules

The roll of heracles, or hercules, as somewhere it referred to him, seems to be really huge. He's depicted on many coins, et cetera. I want to know why he became such a big thing. The reason is because he represents a type of masculinity that the kind of men who could afford to a by and own these pieces found impressive. So there are very many models of what it means to be a man in greek myth and particularly the iliad. Hercules is a sort of simpler version of this story, because what hercules really likes to do is drink a lot and fight a bit and get involved with lots of women. And that is