Hercules is a Greek hero.
-- The Greek hero was called Heracles. Hercules is simply his Latin (Roman) name.
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No. Hercules was the roman version of the greek hero, Herakles.
The real name for the greek hero "Hercules" was Heracles, but when the Romans invaded and took over the adopted the myth and named the hero Hercules. So Hercules is roman, but Heracles is greek.
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
The Greek God of wrestling is the half-god Hercules (Roman Mythology) or Herakles (Greek Mythology). Hercules like to wrestle his guests to exhaustion and then kill them.
He didn't have a Roman counterpart and you are already using his Latin name. In Greek his name was Heracles.