15: Heracles Flashcards
Who are heracles parents
alcmena and zeus
who is heracles twin brother
iphicles, (but different father, iphicles father is amphitryon)
what did zeus swear on the day heracles was born
that a relativ was gonna be born and rule, so heracles cousin eurystheus was born and got ruling power.
how does amphitryon realize heracles has immortal father not him
when he stranges heras snakes
heracles was helping a man named thespius. what does thespius do
he thinks haracles would be a good father to his daughters child so he sends each one of his 50 daughters to heracles each night. one night all 50 are sent one after the other and all 50 get pregnant.
who does heracles marry
megara
hera sends madness on heracles, what does this cause heracles to do
murder megara and his children
what does heracles have to do to make up for killing megara and his children
12 labours for his cousin eurytheus
what’s ironic abt heracles
her civilized landscape to be colonized by greeks but he himself is not civilized.
