Herculius

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Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.

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Label Occurrences
Herculius canonical 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman imperial title
honorific title
appliedTo Maximian
surface form: Roman emperor Maximian
associatedWithDeity Hercules
associatedWithPerson Diocletian
Maximian
category Roman honorifics
Roman imperial ideology
contrastedWith Iovius
correspondsTo Herculean emperor
epithetOf Maximian as co-emperor of Diocletian
hasDivineModel Hercules
hasGenderAssociation male
hasReligiousAssociation cult of Hercules
hasRole marker of imperial identity
marker of subordinate position to Iovius
hasSymbolicAttribute military success
physical might
protector of the empire
historicalRegion Roman Empire in the late 3rd century
ideologicalFunction association of emperor with a god
legitimation of imperial power
ideologicalPairing Jovian–Herculean emperors
introducedBy Diocletian
languageOfOrigin Latin
linkedToConcept divine patronage of the emperor
sacral kingship
linkedToMythology Greek mythology
Roman religion
surface form: Roman mythology
pairedWith title Iovius
partOf Diocletian's Tetrarchy
surface form: Tetrarchic ideology
politicalContext Tetrarchs
surface form: Tetrarchy
religiousContext Roman imperial cult
symbolized heroic virtue
military valor
strength
timePeriod early 4th century CE
late 3rd century CE
usedBy Maximian
usedByOfficeHolder Roman emperor
usedFor imperial self-representation
propaganda
usedIn Roman Empire
usedInReignOf Diocletian
Maximian

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Instruction
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# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Herculius
Description of subject: Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maximian imperialTitle Herculius