Heracles/Hercules

Heracles (known as Hercules by the Romans) was the semi-divine son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, and foster son of Alcmene's husband, Amphitryon. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity (possessing extraordinary strength, courage, ingenuity and sexual prowess) and a champion of the Olympian order against various chthonic monsters, most famously in the Twelve Labours set by his nemesis King Eurystheus, and in his part in the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece. He married King Creon's daughter, Megara, but, in a fit of madness induced by Hera, killed both Megara and his children by her. His second wife was the Lydian queen Omphale, and his third wife was Deianeira, who was ultimately responsible for his death when she was tricked into giving him a shirt poisoned with the blood of the centaur, Nessus. After his death, the gods transformed him into an immortal.