In temporarily capturing Cerberus he offended Hades, the lord of that realm. By slaughtering the man-eating Stymphalian Birds, he enraged the war god Ares, to whom they were sacred. In the course of these Labors, Hercules provoked the wrath of three immortals who remain his enemies to this day. The borrowing/ fetching of Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades: In 1277 B.C., Hercules later revealed that he actually traveled there to rescue his beloved friend Theseus, and that he was there so long that the people of Thebes believed him to be dead. Apparently the Forgotten One also held Atlas' burden on his own shoulders. The completion of that labor was made at the depends of the guardian of the Tree of the Hesperides, the dragon Ladon. When he did, Hercules escaped with the Golden Apples. Hercules tricked Atlas by asking him to take the sky for a moment so he could get comfortable. However, when Atlas returned, he did not wish to take up the sky heavens again, and tried to trick Hercules to keep holding the sky for him. Atlas agreed to fetched three golden apples for three hours of freedom. He asked Atlas for help, he would shoulder the sky while Atlas, the Hesperides' father, fetched the Apples. The retrieval of Hera's Golden Apples from the Garden of the Hesperides: In 1268 B.C., Hercules went to the Titan Atlas who was forced to hold up the sky heavens for all eternity. The theft of the red cattle of Geryon, a three-faced monster tyrant He escaped buck naked, carrying the girdle and chased by the countless Amazons. This happiness from Hercules angered Hera, who took the form of one of the Amazons, and made them believe Hercules was kidnapping their queen. However the moment the two met it was an instant attraction and the two went to bed together. The acquiring of the Golden Girdle from the Amazons: In 1270 BC, Hercules went to Themiscyra, on the River Thermodon, to steal the girdle of Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons, a gift from Hippolyta's father Ares. The defeat / reining-in of the Man-Eating Mares of King Diomedes. The defeat of the Cretan Bull / Capture the Cretan Bull While Hercules actually tried the task manually, in vain, Forgotten One, an Eternal who was mistaken for Hercules, diverted two rivers so that they flowed into the stables, sweeping out the filth. The cleaning of the thousand-cattle stables of King Augeas in a single day: In 1272 B.C., in Elis, Hercules was ordered to clean out the stables of King Augeas, where thousands of cows lived. Nevertheless, in 1271 BC, Hercules slew them all, using the feathers they had shot at him on his own arrows. Those birds had been created by Ares to be the perfect expression of his essence, with impenetrable plumage that they could shoot like arrow, and he considered them sacred. The dispersal of the Man-eating Birds of Lake Stymphalus: For years, Lake Stymphalus/ Lake Stymphalis, in Arcadia / Arkadia, was plagued by vast flocks of man-eating birds. The Eternals Ikaris and Phastos observed the fight on their study of humanity. Hercules made his arrows poisonous by dipping them in the Hydra's blood. But Hercules quickly sliced off the heads, while his nephew, Iolaus, sealed the wounds with a torch. If one was chopped off, two would grow in its place. The slaying the multi-headed Hydra: In 1271 B.C., in Lerna, south of Argos, the evil, snake-like Hydra had nine heads. Reluctantly, Hercules agreed to submit to the will of the hated Eurystheus. īy successfully completing these labors, Hercules would not only pay for his crime, but also achieve immortality and take his rightful place among the Gods. When his sanity returned, he received instructions from the oracle in Delphi to go to Tiryns and perform any Twelve Labors devised from him by King Eurystheus (the final being already accomplished). He change from Herakles to roman Hercules, in order to distance himself from Hera. Hercules' followers decided to accuse Hera, and Hercules didn't corrected them, too ashamed. Enraged, Hercules killed Lycus but his family as well. Truth was that returning from the final labor against Cerberus (and rescuing Theseus from Hades, in 1277 B.C., he was believed dead and Euboean Lycus took advantage of that absence to kill Hercules' father-in-law King Creon and condemn Megara and their three sons to death. Hercules was best known for his celebrated Twelve Labors.Īllegedly, Hera had caused Hercules to go insane and he killed his wife Megara and children, causing him to then atone by performing the twelve labors.
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