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Hercules’ Pillars performed successfully, bringing the total number of tasks to twelve. By the end of these Labors, Hercules was, without a doubt, Greece’s greatest hero. His struggles made him the perfect embodiment of an idea that the Greeks called pathos, the experience of virtuous struggle and suffering which would lead to fame and, in Hercules’ case, immortality. Hercules’ Pillars – (миф.) геркулесовы столбы/столпы; Гибралтарский пролив The phrase was applied in Antiquity to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar is the Rock of Gibraltar in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. A corresponding North African peak in Morocco not being predominant, the identity of the southern Pillar has been disputed through history. According to some Roman sources, while on his way to the island of Erytheia Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas. Instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his superhuman strength to smash through it. By doing so, he connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and formed the Strait of Gibraltar. One part of the split mountain is Gibraltar and the other is either Monte Hacho or Jebel Musa of Morocco. These two mountains taken together have since then been known as the Pillars of Hercules. A Greek historian, however, held that instead of smashing through an isthmus to create the Straits of Gibraltar, Hercules narrowed an already existing strait to prevent monsters from the Atlantic Ocean from entering the Mediterranean Sea. Renaissance tradition says the pillars bore the warning Non plus ultra (“nothing further beyond”), serving as a warning to sailors and navigators to go no further. Figurative meaning: going to absurd. Hillbilly // Hill Jack // hilljack – деревенщина Hillbilly is a term referring to certain people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily Appalachia but also the Ozarks. Owing to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term is frequently considered 70