According to legend, Alexander the Great was the descendant of Greek mythology's Heracles. What was the supposed line of descent?

There is good evidence that the Greeks placed the Pillars of Hercules in southern Greece, not just at the Strait of Gibraltar ...

It was a bra-less age, when men wore skirts of leather, planted their feet and commenced to speechifying. About heroic deeds, which they made up, or at least exaggerated — in Greek. This is the world ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old statue of the Roman God Hercules at the site of the ancient Greek city of Philippi in Northern Greece. Philippi has long been believed to be one of the ...