Herbert
GEORGE, an English poet, brother of Lord Herbert of Cherbury; born in 1593. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1619 till 1627 he was university orator. The death of James I. in 1625 put an end to his prospects of civil promotion, and in the same year he took orders, and became a prebendary in the diocese of Lincoln. În 1630 he took priest's orders, and was presented to the rectory of Be- HERETIC merton, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire.
His collection of religious poems, "The Temple," was published in 1631 and the "Jacula Prudentum," a collection of proverbs, in 1640. His chief prose work was "The Country Parson" (1652). He died in 1633.
HERCULANEUM (her-kū-lā'nē-um), an ancient city about 5 miles from Naples, completely buried with Pompeii by lava and ashes during an eruption of Vesuvius in the reign of Titus, A. D. 79.
HERCULES (her'kū-lēz), or HERAC- LES, the beloved son of Zeus by Alcmene, was intended by his father to be king of the Argives; but Hera, the jealous spouse of Zeus, by a trick caused Eurystheus to become king of Argos.
Nor was her wrath satisfied with this; she made Hercules serve Eurystheus, by far the inferior man. And he enjoined hard adventures on Hercules, even sending him to Hades to fetch up the dog Cerberus. Thus Hercules was doomed to a life of trouble, and became the type among the Greeks not only of manly strength, but of manly endurance. Besides the labors imposed on him by Eurystheus, Hercules undertook adventures on his own account, killing a sea monster that ravaged Troy, and destroying Troy when the mares promised him as reward for killing the monster were denied him. His love of horses also led him to kill Iphitus, though his guest.
Finally, after death, he himself joined the banquet of the deathless gods, with Hebe as his wife; but his phantom, armed with bow and arrow and gold baldric, with wild boars and lions wrought upon it, terrified the dead in Hades.