What are the comparisons between Hercules and Samson?

For clarification, the Greek name was Herakles, Hercules is the Romanization of his name. I will use both. Comparisons were made on similarities of: the supernatural strength of each,the tearing asunder of the lion, the violent death of each, partly voluntary and partly forced. read more

Comparisons were made on similarities of: the supernatural strength of each,the tearing asunder of the lion, the violent death of each, partly voluntary and partly forced. This gave theorists this hypotheses : (1) one of the two accounts, i.e., Samson or Hercules, borrowed from the other; or (2) because of parallelisms, both show that strongman stories follow the same pattern in their mythological development. read more

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SAMSON AND HERCULES Hercules and Samson share many similarities. They were both born out of unordinary circumstances. Samson was born to a barren woman who was visited by an angel. read more

Hercules predates Samson by about 2,500 years (so in all likelihood Samson was a fictionalized character based off Herc, just compare Bible flood to the thousand others, Jesus to Mithras, and Joseph and Bellerophon having their master's wives accuse them of rape). read more