HERACLES

(Latin:
Hercules

),
mythological
Greek hero
whom Philo
praises as a
benefactor

of mankind
and for
his courage
and
determinatio
n. Te
historian
*Cleodemus-

Malchus
(cited by
Josephus
(Ant., :)
from
*Alexander
Polyhistor)

relates that
the sons o
Abraham by
*Keturah
campaigned
with Heracles
against Libya
and that the

daughter of one of
them
married
Heracles
and bore
him a son.
Plutarch,

without
mentioning
that
Heracles
wife was the
granddaught
er of
Abraham,

has a similar
account (
Life of
Sertorius
, )