Alcide is the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for
Heracles
Heracles ( ; ), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a Divinity, divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of ZeusApollodorus1.9.16/ref> and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive descent through ...
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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 in ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', a series of novels by author Charlaine Harris. He is introduced in the third novel, Club Dead. In the television series, he was portrayed by the actor Joe Manganiello.
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, 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 ...
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 the 1958 Epsom 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 Ob ...
, a main belt asteroid
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Cyclone Alcide, in 2018
See also
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