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Aloadae
is always a great word to know.
So is Hercules. Does it mean:
| a celebrated hero possessing exceptional strength: among his many adventures were the twelve labors performed in order to gain immortality |
| the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War |
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Aloadae
in Greek legend, the twin sons of Iphimedia, the wife of Aloeus, by the god Poseidon. Named Otus and Ephialtes, the Aloadae were of extraordinary strength and stature. The Aloadae attacked the Olympian gods and tried to storm heaven itself, but Apollo destroyed them before they reached manhood. In a later myth, when they sought Artemis (goddess of wild animals, vegetation, and childbirth) and Hera (wife of Zeus) in marriage, Artemis appeared between them in the shape of a stag; they tried to kill the stag but instead accidentally slew each other
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