• ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Hercules is the name the Romans called Heracles (or Herakles if you’re pretentious), besides that, barbarian is from the Greek word that essentially means people who don’t speak Greek.

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      To be fair barbarian is also a Roman term since they adopted it and they also used it for people not speaking Latin

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      Herakles would probably be more correct. Romans used ‘k’ mostly in Greek loanwords, and used their native letter ‘c’ everywhere else.