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- Heracles – Mythopedia
Heracles then collected the apples and returned to Eurystheus Labor #12: Cerberus Heracles’ final labor was the most daunting: to go down to the Underworld and bring back Cerberus, Hades’ three-headed guard dog Against all odds, Heracles was able to cross into the Underworld, wrestle Cerberus, and convince Hades to let him bring the dog
- Heracles (Play) - Mythopedia
The Heracles is a tragedy by Euripides, usually dated to around 415 BCE In the play, Heracles returns home after completing his Twelve Labors, just in time to save his family from a violent usurper But he is driven mad by the gods and ends up killing the wife and children he has just saved
- Heraclids - Mythopedia
After Heracles’ death, the Heraclids were pursued and nearly wiped out by Heracles’ old enemy Eurystheus Driven out of Greece, they eventually returned with an unstoppable army and proceeded to conquer Mycenae, Sparta, and Argos, among other cities
- Shield of Heracles - Mythopedia
The Shield of Heracles is a brief epic poem incorrectly attributed to Hesiod, probably composed around the early sixth century BCE It tells of the battle between the hero Heracles and the warrior Cycnus, but it is most famous—as the title suggests—for its long and detailed description of Heracles’ shield
- Ceryneian Hind – Mythopedia
Heracles’ Third (or Fourth) Labor Heracles was sent to catch the Ceryneian Hind as one of his Twelve Labors Hera, who hated the hero because he was the bastard son of her husband Zeus, forced Heracles to complete these grueling tasks for his cousin Eurystheus, the king of Mycenae Capturing the Ceryneian Hind was either the third or fourth
- Iphicles – Mythopedia
Attic black-figure neck amphora depicting Heracles (left) and Iolaus (right) fighting Cycnus (center), attributed to the Painter of Oxford 569 or to the Leagros Group (ca 510–500 BCE) Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg CC BY 3 0 The Birth of Heracles and Iphicles Heracles and Iphicles were twins who shared a mother but had different fathers
- Nemean Lion - Mythopedia
Heracles was sent to kill the Nemean Lion as the first of his labors There were several different accounts of the battle The poet Theocritus describes how Heracles found the Nemean Lion “full fed both of flesh and gore, his tangled mane, his grim visage and all his chest spattered with blood, and his tongue licking his chaps ”
- Amphitryon - Mythopedia
Amphitryon was a Greek hero from the Argolid—the son of King Alcaeus of Tiryns and the husband of Alcmene After accidentally killing his father-in-law, Aphitryon was banished and fled to Thebes There his wife was seduced by Zeus and gave birth to the hero Heracles
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