Was Hercules a real person?

>>3253057
Yes but she was a woman IRL.

>>3253063
what

Yes and if you say his name three times he will appear behind you and cave your head in with a club.

>>3253070
>no question mark
Fuck off brainlet.

>>3253057
No memeing around, the (((consensus))) is that his 12 works were all made up from different local stories and highly allegorical.

Can't remember where I read it but also he could be at least on its origin the first king of the invaders who became the greeks

>>3254113

You might have been reading something about the Herakleidai taking over the Peloponnesos with the Dorians.

>>3253063
Hot.

If he was, I think he was active in the Archaic Age colonization of the Western med.

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Most likely allegorical, a lot of different Indo-European cultures at the time followed a similar religion where the main individuals each had different names depending on the culture in question (For example, Thor would be known as Zeus etc)
In the Prose Edda it speaks about how the "Aesir" fled from Troy as it burned and in Roman myths it speaks about how Aeneas was one of these who fled from Troy to Italy and whos ancestors would later go on to found Rome (Romulus and Remus)

Similarities in such subsequent texts and several others may lend to the idea that they were inspired by actions of real peoples, or you could view it as pseudo-history.

>>3253057
Yes, and he never lost to anyone because he was the strongest in the world.

His real name was Kevin Sorbo though.