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Isabella and her family believed themselves to be descended from Hercules, the legendary warrior, half-God and half-mortal. They believed the hero had personally founded the cities of Arévalo, Segovia, Ávila, and Salamanca, places that Isabella knew well.
It was a surviving illustration of the ways in which Greek mythology and biblical tales intermingled in the Spanish mind.
Descendants of the Greeks, she and other Spanish nobles were creatures of the classical world as well as the biblical one.
