Reading notes

• The Aeneid §5.410 Hercules

  The hero Alcides, whom Eryx once fought on this shore with these very gauntlets.

• The Aeneid §6.123 Hercules

  The greatest of heroes, called Alcides; he too went down to the dead and returned.

• The Aeneid §8.103 great son of Amphitryon

  Hercules (Alcides), honoured by Evander's Arcadians at the Ara Maxima for slaying Cacus.

• The Aeneid §10.322 Alcides

  Hercules, whom Melampus once attended through his labours.

• The Eclogues §7.61 Alcides

  Hercules, called 'Alcides' after his grandfather Alceus; the poplar is his sacred tree (Eclogue 7).