baroncain:Herakles (Hercules) and Dionysus are often associated. One myth tells of Dionysus and Hera
baroncain:Herakles (Hercules) and Dionysus are often associated. One myth tells of Dionysus and Herakles having an all-night drinking contest, although Herakles kept up, he fell asleep just before sunrise. For losing Herakles joined the troop of Dionysus and travelled with the god for a time, giving rise to popular motives of drunken Herakles in art. Like Dionysus, Herakles was born from Zeus and a mortal woman and constantly tormented by Hera and sent insane. This results in the death of his wife and children, a crime that can only be redeemed through the Twelve labours. During the difficult labours he ventured the world, engaging in many love affairs with women and men and siring a generation of kings. Eventually, Herakles was poisoned, which made his flesh melt from his body, in agony he built his own funeral pyre and killed himself. The fire burnt his mortality away and Herakles ascended to heaven as a divine protector of mankind. Image: Drunken Heracles from the House of Stags, Herculaneum, Italy.From the Dionysus page on Facebook -- source link