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The real Hercules

Hercules from the 1997 Disney film Greek vase painting of Hercules wrestling the Nemean lion Pollaiolo painting of Hercules fighting the Hydra The Nemean lion leaping in a cave, from the 2014 film Roman marble head of Hercules Dürer painting of Hercules shooting the Stymphalian birds Moreau painting of the man-eating horses of Diomedes A giant boar charging through a snowy forest, from the 2014 film

Film stills: Hercules (1997) and Hercules (2014). Art: Athenian vase, 515–510 BC (Cleveland Museum of Art); Pollaiolo; Roman marble (The Met); Dürer; Gustave Moreau.

Forget the movies. I'm telling his whole story the way the ancient sources tell it: the madness, all twelve labours, and how he died. Get the full video before it goes public.

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From Patrick Torres: master swordsman, MMA fighter, and the filmmaker making In the Shadow of Zeus, where Hercules is one of the characters.