{"id":71900,"date":"2020-07-27T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=71900"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:06:54","slug":"roman-statue-of-hercules","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-statue-of-hercules\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman statue of Hercules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Roman marble statue depicting <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/herkules\/\">Hercules<\/a>. Dated from 117-138 CE. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Roman mythology, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/hercules\/\">Hercules<\/a> was a <b> deified hero<\/b>. Later his cult merged completely with the Greek Heracles, but even then the Romans retained some of their own myths about this character. Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-legends\/\">legend<\/a> attributes Hercules to the killing of the giant Cacusa and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-kingdom\/roman-kings\/\">king<\/a> Faunus. Hercules was to be hosted by Evander in his country, and after the death of the hero, he established his cult.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Hercules was worshipped in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> as guardian of property, guardian of entrances, and guardian of travellers and traders. Farmers and merchants tithed him of the profits and the crops.<br \/>\nAn attribute of Hercules, unlike his Greek counterpart, was <b>the lyre<\/b>. He was often presented with her in the company of Apollo and muses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37421,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-71900","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/71900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/71900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=71900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}