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Explain hercules' relationship to his parents?

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his parents are Zeus and the mortal, Alcmene

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  1. No, His parents are Zeus and athena. It was only said that his mother was Alcmene because Zeus had many affairs.


  2. According to wikipedia the asker is correct about Hercules's lineage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules

  3. They were his parents.

  4. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (see Amphitryon), granddaughter of Perseus. Zeus swore that the next son born of the Perseid house should become ruler of Greece, but by a trick of Zeus’s jealous wife, Hera, another child, the sickly Eurystheus, was born first and became king; when Heracles grew up, he had to serve him and also suffer the vengeful persecution of Hera. His first exploit, in fact, was the strangling of two serpents that she had sent to kill him in his cradle.

    Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, made love to both Zeus and her husband on the same night and bore two sons, Hercules (son of Zeus) and Iphicles (son of Amphitryon). Hercules incurred the everlasting wrath of Hera because he was the child of her unfaithful husband. A few months after his birth Hera set two serpents in his cradle, but the prodigious infant promptly strangled them.

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