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No Hercules is not in the Illiad.

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Although not a character in the narrative per se, Hercules (Heracles) is alluded to 9 times in The Iliad: Books 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 18, 19, and 20. He had at one time destroyed Troy, and there are key parallels between that story and The Iliad.

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