All 6 Uses of
Hercules
in
Moby Dick
- Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules' pillars, his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Whether to admit Hercules among us or not, concerning this I long remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that antique Crockett and Kit Carson—that brawny doer of rejoicing good deeds, was swallowed down and thrown up by a whale; still, whether that strictly makes a whaleman of him, that might be mooted.†
Chpt 82-84
- But, by the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versa; certainly they are very similar.†
Chpt 82-84
- Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you!†
Chpt 82-84
- But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.†
Chpt 82-84
- Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(Hercules) mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality