Alcide is the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for
Heracles
Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive ...
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Alcide may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Alcide'' (Bortniansky), a 1778 opera by Dmitry Bortniansky
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''Alcide'' (Marais), a 1693 opera by Marin Marais and Louis Lully
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Alcide Herveaux Alcide Herveaux is a fictional character from the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries''/Sookie Stackhouse novels by author Charlaine Harris. He is a Were (a full blooded werewolf) who owns a construction company in Jackson, Mississippi with his father. He ...
, a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris
* Alcide, a fictional policeman in the French TV series ''
The Returned''
* Alcide Nikopol, the main character of the
Nikopol Trilogy
''The Nikopol Trilogy'' is a series of three science fiction graphic novels written in French by Yugoslavian-born Enki Bilal, published between 1980 and 1992. The original French titles of the series are ''La Foire aux immortels'' (1980), '' La F ...
novels by French cartoonist Enki Bilal
* Alcide Jolivet, a fictional journalist in the novel ''
Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar'' by Jules Verne
Ships
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French ship ''Alcide'' (1743)
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French ship ''Alcide'' (1782)
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HMS ''Alcide'', a list of ships with this name
Other uses
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Alcide (horse)
Alcide (1955–1973) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. It is widely believed that Alcide would have won Epsom's 1958 Derby had not probable foul play prevented him from running. A form line through Nagami, who was third in the Derby, gives cr ...
(1955–1973), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
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8549 Alcide
8549 Alcide, provisional designation , is a stony Nysa asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 March 1994, by a group of amateur astronomers at the Farra d'Isonzo Obs ...
, a main belt asteroid
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Cyclone Alcide
In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anti ...
, in 2018
See also
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