Legends and myths of ancient Greece. Heroes. Hercules

Nikolai Albertovich Kun (1877-1940) - Russian historian, writer. On the line of his mother came from an old noble family, in the family of his father (the surname Kuhn - German) there were German and Anglo -Shottland roots. Nikolai Albertovich is a brilliant graduate of the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, where, among other things, Greek and Roman literature and antiquity were studied, which forever became the center of its interests. And although Kun wrote many books, including "Tales of African peoples", "Tales of Gypsies", "Tales of the peoples of the Islands of the Great Ocean", the translation of "letters of dark people" (German satire for scholasticism), he is most known as the author of the book “Legends and myths of ancient Greece. "
Nikolai Albertovich taught a lot: he conducted classes on the history of culture and religion in the Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow educational institutions. He worked abroad: at the University of Berlin and in Rome, where in 1911-1912 he led excursions of Russian teachers and gave lectures as an expert on ancient art, in museums, forum and in the palatine (Roman hill, one of the oldest places of the eternal city).
At the age of 43, Kun became a professor of social sciences of Moscow State University, wrote articles for large and small Soviet encyclopedias.
The book "Legends and myths of Ancient Greece" was first released in 1922 and has since been reprinted many times, was translated into languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR and the main European languages. It is interesting that initially it was called "What the ancient Greeks and the Romans told about their gods and heroes." Under the heading of the "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece", the publication came out after the death of the author, changes were made to him.
This publication publishes a part of the book: a myth describing the legendary hero of Greece, Hercules, a strong man who had inhuman power and committed 12 great exploits, a mortal, who earned an ascension to the bright Olympus, into the host of immortals. The events in the book of Kun are set out according to the tragedies of the ancient Greek playwrights of Sophocles and Euripides and the ancient legends of the II century of the mythographer and the historian of Pausanias