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What was the roman name of the Greek god Hercules?

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Hercules is not a Greek God!!

He was actually a demigod or HalfBlood which means that one of his parent (His father Zeus)was a Greek God but the other was a motal man or woman.

But he is mentioned in Roman and Greek mythology. Hercules being the Roman name for the Greek demigod Heracles

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