Character · Individual

phantom of Hercules

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Canonical name: phantom of Hercules
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: The source explicitly distinguishes the speaking phantom in Hades from Hercules himself feasting with the gods.

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house of Hades1 observation

·Remembered

The phantom of Hercules went down again into the house of Hades.

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“‘On this Hercules went down again into the house of Hades, but I stayed where I was in case some other of the mighty dead should come to me. And I should have seen still other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen—Theseus and Pirithous—glorious children of the gods, but so many thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries, that I was panic stricken lest Proserpine should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon. On this I hastened back to my ship and ordered my men to go on board at once and loose the hawsers; so they embarked and took their places, whereon the ship went down the stream of the river Oceanus. We had to row at first, but presently a fair wind sprang up. ”

Claims

·Remembered

Only Hercules’s phantom appears: black as night, holding a bare bow and strung arrow, glaring as if always about to aim.

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“mighty Hercules, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Jove and Juno. The ghosts were screaming round him like scared birds flying all whithers. He looked black as night with his bare bow in his hands and his arrow on the string, glaring around as though ever on the point of taking aim”

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·Remembered

“I saw mighty Hercules, but it was his phantom only”