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HERCULES AND
HIS 12 LABORSCreated by: Mrs. Chadwell
Fall 2006
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WHO IS HERCULES?
Parents-Zeus and Alcmene (Greek woman)
Named him Herakleswhich means glorious giftof Hera in Greek. This upset Hera.
Megara-1stwife
Deianira-2ndwife
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Death of Hercules
The centaur Nessos attacks Hercules 2ndwife,Deianira
Hercules kills Nessos with one of his arrows.
Nessos sets up revenge by telling her that hisblood was a love potion.
She rubbed the blood on Hercules cloak torenew his love and it burned off his skin.
Brought to Mt. Olympus after he died.
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THE PROBLEM
Hera was determined to make problems forHercules.
Made him go mad and he killed his wife andchildren
Prayed to Apollo for forgiveness
The oracle told him he would have to serveEurystheus, the king of Tiryns and Mycenae, fortwelve years, in punishment for the murders.
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THE NEMEAN LION
His arrows had no effecton the lion.
Hercules trapped it in a
cave and choked it todeath.
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The Lernean Hydra
9 headed serpent withpoisonous venom w/one immortal head
Bashed in the heads witha club. Two grew backto replace each one.
Iolaus, nephew, helps
Hercules by burning thenecks as Hercules knocksthe head off.
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HYDRA (cont)
Buried the immortal head and covered it with ahuge rock.
Dipped his arrows in the poisonous venom.
This labor didnt count because he had help.
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The Erymanthian Boar
Huge,wild pig with tusksand a bad temper.
Lived on a mountain
called Erymanthus. Attacked people and
animals.
Stopped to visit a friendon the way, Pholus (acentaur)
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The Erymanthian Boar (cont)
Hercules drank the centaurs wine w/o
permission.
A fight breaks out and he killed the centaurswith the poisonous arrows. Pholus wasaccidentally killed.
Chased the boar all over the country beforefinally capturing him in a net.
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The Augean Stables
Clean King Augeas stables in one day
Augeas was very rich and had many cattle,horses, etc.
The stables had never been cleaned out.
Hercules offers to clean the stables in exchange
for one-tenth of his cattle. Made 2 huge holes in the stable walls.
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5thLabor cont
Hercules changed the course of two nearbyrivers.
Augeas refused to pay Hercules. He is orderedto pay Hercules by the courts
This labor doesnt count because he was paid
for it.
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The Stymphalian Birds
Ugly, man-eating birds
Aided by Athena, whogave him a krotala, noise
making clapper. He used this to make the
birds scatter and thenshot them down with
either a bow and arrowor a slingshot.
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7th-CRETAN BULL
Minos is the king of Crete.
King Minos mother, Europa, was carried toCrete by Zeus, who was in the form of a bull sothe bull is sacred to Crete.
Minos promised to sacrifice anything thatPoseidon sent to him.
Poseidon sends a bull, but Minos refuses tosacrifice it because he thinks it is beautiful.
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Cretan Bull (cont)
Poseidon has the bull run all over Crete andmakes Minos wife, Pasiphae fall in love with it.
As a result, the Minotaur is born, part bull, part
man. Minos shuts him in the Labyrinth and feeds
prisoners to him.
Hercules captures the original bull and takes it toKing E who lets it lose in Greece.
Theseus eventually kills the bull & the Minotaur.
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8th-Horses of Diomedes
There are several versions to this story, but nonehave a lot of details.
The horses were man-eating horses.
Hercules captures the horses and takes themback to the king.
He releases them and they are later killed by wildbeasts on Mt. Olympus.
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9th-The Belt of Hippolyte
Hippolyte was the queen of the Amazons
The name, Amazon, comes from a Greek wordmeaning "missing one breast."
The Amazons lived apart from men, and if theyever gave birth to children, they kept only thefemales and reared them to be warriors like
themselves.The leather belt was a gift from Ares because
she was the best Amazon warrior.
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The Belt of Hippolyte (cont)
She agrees to give the belt to him, but Herapretends to be an Amazon warrior and makesthe other warriors believe that Hercules is going
to take the queen.
Hercules kills in battle Hippolyte and takes thebelt.
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10th-The Cattle of Geryon
Geryon has 3 heads and3 sets of legs at the waist.
These red cattle aregaurded by Cerberus
brother, a 2 headed dognamed Orthus.
Hercules kills Orthus,
the herdsman andGeryon and takes cattle.
King E sacrificed themto Hera.
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11th-The Apples of the Hesperides
Golden apples were a wedding gift to Zeus fromHera.
In a garden and they were guarded by a 100-headed dragon and the Hesperides, nymphs who
were daughters of Atlas. Hercules comes across Prometheus and kills the
eagle that is torturing Prometheus. (For giving
man fire) Prometheus helps Hercules and tells him that
Atlas must get the apples.
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The Apples (cont)
Hercules holds the earth while Atlas gets theapples. Hercules tricks Atlas into taking theearth back.
He shows the apples to King E, but they mustbe returned to the garden because they belongto a god.
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12th- Cerberus Cerberus was the 3 headed dog w/ a dragon tail
that guarded the gate to the Underworld/Hades. Orthus, the Hydra, the Nemean Lion, and
Chimera were all related to Cerberus.
Pluto agreed to let Hercules take Cerberus, butonly if he could capture him with his ownstrength. Hercules wrestled Cerberus to groundeven though he was pierced by the dogs tail.
Cerberus was safely returned to the Underworldafter King Eurystheus saw the dog.
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References
http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Herakles