Heracles
Founded the Olympic Games
The strongest of the Greek heroes, and by legend the founder of the Games.
Twelve labours, a lion skin and a club — and, the story goes, the festival at Olympia itself, laid out by him in honour of his father. He is said to have paced the running track by his own feet, six hundred of them, which is why a stadion is the length it is.
Famous for
- The Twelve Labours
- Founded the Olympic festival
- Paced out the first running track
In Rubicon
Heracles is one of the historical characters you can play as in Rubicon, a trivia game where you answer in your own words and an AI judge reads what you meant. Heracles is filed under Sports & Games, and is strongest at Sports & Games.
Others in Sports & Games
- Milo of Croton — Six-time Olympic wrestling champion
- Spartacus — Gladiator who defied Rome
- Koroibos of Elis — The first Olympic champion
- Pheidippides — The run that named the marathon
- Kyniska of Sparta — First woman to win at Olympia
- Gaius Appuleius Diocles — The richest athlete who ever lived