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Who is Alcides?What is the 'virgin tribute'?How did Alcides save the virgin tribute?
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Alcides - (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality

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Alcides - (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality.

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In the passage, Portia is likening her fate in being forced to marry whoever chooses the right casket to what happened to Hesione of Troy ("the virgin tribute"). ... To her, being married to a man she could not love would be the equivalent to being eaten alive

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The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 54-57. much more love, / Than young Alcides, when he did redeem / The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy / To the sea-monster: —"Alcides" was an earlier name of Hercules