Heracles Flashcards
Who were the parents of Heracles?
Alcmene and Zeus
Who was the son of Alcmene?
Heracles
Who was the husband of Alcmene?
Amphitryon
Who was the father of Amphitriyon?
Alcaeus
What hero, the descendants of Perseus…
Heracles
Who was the father of Alcaeus?
Perseus
Who killed Electryon?
Amphitryon
Who is the brother of Electryon?
Sthenelus
Who was the father of Alcmene?
Electryon
Where did Alcmene and Amphitryon flee to?
Thebes
Who welcomed Amphitryon and Alcmene to thebes?
Creon
Alcmene refused to lie with Amphitryon until he did what?
avenged the murder of her brothers by taphian pirates
Who told Alcmene that she had slept with Zeus?
Teiresias
What did Zeus boast to the other gods before heracles was born?
That on that day a son of his lineage would be born and rule over all the land
Who made Zeus swear on his prophecy about his son?
Hera
Where was Heracles born?
Thebes
What was the origional name of Heracles?
Alcaeus
Who was Heracles’s twin?
Iphicles
Who persuaded the unsuspecting Hera to suckle Heracles?
Athena
Who unsuspectingly suckled heracles?
Hera
Who exposed Heracles for fear of Hera’s wrath?
Alcmene
Who put Heracles on the sleeping Hera’s breast?
Zeus
The spilled milk from who suckling whom became the milky way?
Hera suckling Heracles
What did Heracles do to the snakes in his crib?
strangled them
Who sent the snakes to Heracles’s crib?
Either Hera or Amphitryon
Who taught heracles how to drive a chariot?
Amphitryon
Who taught Heracles how to wrestle?
Autolycus
Who taught heracles archery?
Eurytus
Who taught heracles fencing?
Castor
Who taught heracles music?
Linus
Who was the brother of Orpheus?
Linus
What was Heracles’s first adventure?
to pursue a lion which had been roaming mount cithaeron and eating the flocks of Amphitryon and Thespius
Who was the king of Thespiae during heracles’s time?
Thespius
Who entertained Heracles for 50 nights with his 50 daughters?
Thespius
Who is alternatively said to have killed the lion roaming mount cithaeron?
Alcathous
On his way home from mount cithaeron, heracles found heralds sent by whom and from where?
By Erginus from Orchomenus
What did heracles do to the heralds?
cut off their ears and noses and sent them back to orchomenus
Who attacked Thebes because of Heracles?
Erginus
Who burnt down the palace and took the city of Orchomenus?
Heracles
Who did Heracles first marry?
Megara (wife of Heracles)
Who purified Heracles for killing Megara and his children?
Thespius or Nausithous and Macris
What naiad did Heracles lay with on Drepane?
Melite
Who was the son of Heracles and Melite?
Hyllus
Who told Heracles that he must perform labors for eurystheus?
The oracle at delphi
What was Heracles first labor?
Kill the nemean Lion
Who were the parents of the nemean lion?
Echidna and Orthus or Typhon
On his way to nemea, who did heracles stay with in Cleonae?
Molorchus
Where did Heracles stay on his way to nemea?
in cleonae
When molorchus offered a sacrifice to him, what did Heracles tell him?
To wait thirty days and if he doesn’t return sacrifice to him as a hero and if he does then sacrifice to Zeus as a savior
How did Heracles kill the nemean lion?
He blocked one end of its cave and walked in and strangled it
What creature, invulnerable to weapons…
nemean lion
When Heracles returned to Tiryns after killing the nemean lion, what did Eurystheus order?
for his trophies to be displayed outside the city gates
What did Eurystheus do when Heracles returned from the nemean lion?
He hid in a bronze storage jar
What herald gave heracles tasks from eurystheus?
Copreus
What was the second labor of heracles?
Killing the Learnean Hydra
What spring did the hydra live near?
The amymone spring
Who did the hydra live with?
a crab
Who helped Heracles with his second labor?
Iolaus
Who was Heracles’s charioteer?
Iolaus
Who was the son of Iphicles?
Iolaus
Why didn’t Eurystheus accept Heracles second labor?
He had help completing the task
Whose blood covered Heracles’s arrows?
The hydras
What was heracles’s third labor?
to capture the cerynitian hind
Who was the cerynitian hind sacred to?
Artemis
How long did Heracles spend chasing the Cerynitian hind?
a year
How long did Heracles’s third labor take?
a year
Where did Heracles finally capture the cerynitian hind?
By the river ladon
How did Heracles’s get Artemis to let him take the deer?
he blamed it on Eurystheus
What was Heracles’s fourth labor?
Capture the Erymanthian boar
What country did the Erymanthion boar ravage?
Psophis
On his way past Mount Pholoe going to get the erymanthion boar, who did Heracles stop with?
the centaur Pholus
Who was the son of Silenus?
Pholus the centaur
What did Pholus attempt to serve Heracles?
wine
What happened when Pholus tried to serve Heracles wine?
the other centaurs smelled it and going mad tried to steal it
Where was the home of the centaurs?
Mount Malea
Who dropped an arrow on his foot and died?
Pholus or Chiron
Who took on Chiron’s burden of immortality?
Prometheus
What did Heracles trap the erymanthion boar in?
snow
Between what labors did Heracles adventure with the Argonauts?
the fourth and fifth labors
Who was almost made captain of the Argonauts?
Heracles
What complaint did the speaking beam on the argo say about Heracles?
he was too heavy
During the war with the dryopes,, what king did heracles kill?
King Theiodamas
Who accompanied Heracles on the argo?
Hylas
Who told Heracles what had happened to Hylas?
Polyphemus
Who insisted that they leave Heracles, Hylas, and Polyphemus behind?
Zetes and Calais
Who did Heracles kill on Tenos for their part in his abandonment?
zetes and Calais
Whose graves was their a stone over which swayed in the breath of the dead men’s father?
zetes and calais
What was the fifth labor of Heracles?
to clean the augeian stables
cute
What king of Elis owned the Aegean stables?
Augeias
What did Heracles demand as payment for cleaning the augeian stables?
one tenth of the cattle
Who did Heracles make witness his agreement with Augeias?
Phyleus
Which two rivers did Heracles divert?
The alpheius and Peneius rivers
Where was phyleus exiled to?
Dulichium
When in olenus, who entertained Heracles?
King Dexamenus
In exchange for being entertained by Dexamenus, Heracles killed whom?
The centaur Eurytion
Why did Heracles kill the centaur eurytion?
he was about to marry Dexamenus’s daughter mnesimache against her will
What two labors did Eurystheus not count?
The second and fifth
Why didn’t Eurystheus count heracles’s fifth labor?
he was going to get paid
What was heracles’s sixth labor?
to chase away the stymphalian birds
How did heracles chase away the stymphalian birds?
he used a rattle or castanets to scare them and then shot them
What was heracles’s seventh labor?
capture the cretan bull
What was the first labor that heracles had to leave the peloponnesus for?
the seventh labor
Where did the cretan bull go next?
Marathon
Who sent Androgeus to capture the marathonian bull?
King Aegeus
Who did King Aegeus send to capture the marathonian bull?
Androgeus
Who killed the marathonian bull?
Theseus
What was heracles’s eigth labor?
fetch the mares of the diomedes
What did the mares of Diomedes eat?
human flesh
Who was Diomedes the king of?
the bistones
Who entertained Heracles in Thessaly?
Admetus
What was Admetus the king of?
Pherae
Who did Heracles wrestle for Admetus?
Thanatos
Who did Heracles leave the mares of Diomedes with?
Abderus
How did Heracles kill Diomedes?
Fed him to his own mares
What was Heracles’s ninth labor?
Girdle of Hippolyta
What daughter of Eurystheus…
Admete
Who wanted the belt of Hippolyte?
Admete
Who are the parents of Hippolyte?
Ares and Otera
What river do the amazons live on?
Thermodon river
What two men did Heracles take with him to fight the amazons?
Theseus and Telamon
On their way to fight the amazons, where did Heracles and his crew stop?
Paros
Sons of what man ruled Paros?
Minos
Alcaeus and Sthenelus were sons of what man?
Androgeus
What two hostages did Heracles take from Paros?
Alcaeus and Sthenelus
Where did Heracles go after Paros?
Mysia
Who entertained Heracles and his crew at Mysia?
Lycus, king of the mariandyni
What brother of amycus did Heracles kill?
Mygdon
After mysia, where did Heracles go?
Themiscyra
Who posed as an amazon to make the others believe Heracles kidnapped Hippolyte?
Hera
Who killed Hippolyte?
Heracles
What daughter of Laomedon did Heracles save?
Hesione
What king of Aenus entertained Heracles?
King Poltys
What brother of Poltys did Heracles shoot?
Sarpedon
When Heracles and his crew reached torone on the peninsula of Sithonia, who challenged heracles to a wrestling match?
Polygonus and Telegonus
What sons of Proteus challanged Heracles to wrestle?
Polygonus and Telegonus
Who did Polygonus and Telegonus challenge to wrestle?
Heracles
What was Heracles’s tenth labor?
Cattle of Geryon
What king of Eurytheia…
Geryon
Who were the parents of Geryon?
Callirrhoe and Chrysoar
Who was the herdsman of Geryon?
Eurytion
Who were the parents of Orthus?
Typhon and echidna
What son of Callirrhoe and Chrysaor…
Geryon
Where did Heracles set up his pillars?
The strait of Gibraltar
Wearied by the suns heat, who …
Heracles
Who did Heracles shoot at on his way to the cattle of geryon?
Helius
How did Heracles get to his tenth labor?
By riding a golden cup
What did Helius give to Heracles?
a golden cup
What island of Geryon…
Erytheia
What mountain did Heracles wait on until Orthus rushed at him?
Mount Abas
How did Orthus die?
Heracles hit him with his club
Who told Geryon what heracles had done?
Menoetes
Who was pasturing Hades cattle?
Menoetes
At what river did Heracles shoot Geryon?
Anthemus
What sons of Pos tried to steal the cattle of Geryon from Heracles while he was in Liguria
Ialebion and Dercynus
Ialebion and Dercynus tred to steal Heracles cattle while he where?
Liguria
Who did Heracles kill in Liguria?
Ialebion and Dercynus
Why was Heracles attacked by the Ligurians?
he killed Ialebion and Dercynus
How did Heracles defeat the Ligurians?
Zeus caused a shower of stones to fall and Heracles threw stones at them
Who saved Heracles from the Ligurians?
Zeus
Who fell to his knees wounded and would have died if it weren’t for Zeus’s intervention?
Heracles
What people were killed when Zeus made stones rain?
the ligurians
What giant stole some of Heracles’s cattle?
Cacus
Who dragged the cattle of Geryon by their tails?
Cacus
Why did Heracles lay with Echidna?
She had some of his mares and he wanted them back
How many sons did Heracles have with Echidna?
three
What did Heracles give echidna?
a bow
What did Heracles tell Echidna to do with her sons?
Whichever one could draw his bow should become king of her land and the other two should be sent away
Which of Echidna’s sons could draw heracles’s bow?
Scythes
Name the three sons of Heracles and Echidna
Scythes, Gelonus, and Agathyrsus
Which of Echidna’s sons were exiled?
Agathyrsus and Gelonus
In whose keeping did Heracles leave the cattle of Geryon while he went to get the finest bull that escaped?
Hephaestus’s
What island did the finest of Geryon’s bulls swim to in heracles’s care?
Sicily
Who did Heracles have to get back the finest of Geryon’s cattle from?
Eryx
What man did heracles wrestle to get back a bull from?
Eryx
Who did Heracles kill in either a boxing or wrestling match?
Eryx
What was heracles’s eleventh labor?
apples of the hesperides
Who gave hera golden apples as a wedding gift?
Gaea
What snake / dragon guarded the apples of the hesperides?
Ladon
How many heads does Ladon have?
100
Where did Heracles go to find out the location of nereus?
The river eridanus
Daughters of what two people were the nymphs who knew the location of nereus?
Daughters of zeus and themis
What did the daughters of Zeus and Themis tell Heracles?
The location of the sleeping nereus
Who did Heracles capture and hold tightly despite the many transformations the god made?
Nereus
Who told Heracles the location of the apples of the hesperides?
Nereus
Who shot the eagle that tortured Prometheus?
Heracles
Who freed Prometheus from his bounds?
Heracles
At what mountains did Heracles shoot the eagle that tormented Prometheus?
The caucasus mountains
Who told Heracles that he should send atlas to fetch the apples?
Prometheus
Passing through Arabia, what son of Tithonus did Heracles kill?
King Emathion
Who were the parents of king busiris?
Posiedon and Lysianassa
What did the oracle tell king Busiris would solve the famine problem?
He needed to sacrifice a person every year to zeus
Who was the first person King busiris sacrificed to Zeus?
the seer who told him the news
After sacrificing the seer, what people did King Busiris choose to sacrifice?
Strangers to the land
Who killed king Busiris?
Heracles
What son of King busiris did Heracles kill?
Amphidamas
What two men did heracles kill after breaking his chains on an altar for sacrifice?
King busiris and his son amphidamas
What king did Heracles kill with a bear hug?
Antaeus
What son of Gaea did Heracles wrestle?
Antaeus
What was strange about Antaeus?
He couldn’t die so long as he was touching the earth
How did Heracles kill Antaeus?
He lifted him off the ground and crushed him to death with a bear hug
How did Heracles get the apples of hesperides?
He tricked atlas into getting them
How did Heracles trick Atlas into taking the weight of the sky back?
He asked if atlas could hold the sky while Heracles put a pad on his head
Who did Heracles give the apples to after Eurystheus?
Athena
What was Heracles’s 12th labor?
to capture cerberus
To prepare for his twelth labor where did Heracles go?
Eleusis
Why did Heracles go to Eleusis?
To be initiated into the elusinian mysteries
Who purified Heracles of his murder of the centaurs?
Eumolpus
Who adopted Heracles so that he could be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries?
Pylius
What entrance of the underworld did Heracles use to fetch cerberus?
Taenarum
Who guided Heracles into the underworld?
Hermes
What phantom did Heracles draw his sword at in the underworld?
Medusa
Who did Heracles save from the chairs of forgetfulness?
Theseus
What happened when Heracles tried to save peirithous?
The earth quaked
Who did Heracles remove the boulder from in the underworld?
Ascalaphus
Feeling bad for the thirsty shades in the underworld, what did Heracles do?
Killed one of Hades’s cattle for them to drink the blood of
Who did Heracles wrestle and break the ribs of in the underworld?
Menoetes
Who did Heracles almost kill until Persephone begged him to stop?
menoetes
Who begged Heracles to stop wrestling Menoetes?
Persephone
In one version, Hades allowed Heracles to take Cerberus as long as he did it without what?
Weapons
In one version, Heracles fought with Hades until he wounded him severely and Hades had to go to Olympus where whom treated him?
Paeon
What man was the father of Iole?
Eurytus
Who was the daughter of eurytus?
Iole
Where was Eurytus king?
Oechalia
Eurytus was willing to give his daughter to anyone who could do what?
Beat him and his sons in an archery contest
Despite the please of what man did Eurytus refuse to give his daughter to Heracles?
Iphitus
What son of Eurytus…
Iphitus
Why did Eurytus refuse to give Iole to Heracles?
because he recalled that Heracles had killed his children
Who did Eurytus think stole his mares?
Heracles
Who did Heracles entertain at Tiryns until he threw him off a roof?
Iphitus
What happened to Iphitus?
Heracles threw him off a roof
How was Heracles punished for his murder of Iphitus?
he had a terrible disease
Who did Heracles ask to purify him of his murder of Iphitus?
Neleus
Who refused to purify Heracles of his murder of Iphitus because he was the ally of Eurytus?
Neleus
Who purified Heracles for his murder of Iphitus?
Deiphobus
Where did Deiphobus purify Heracles?
Amyclae
What was the name of the pythia who refused to speak to Heracles?
Xenocleia
When Xenocleia, the pythia, refused to speak to him, what did Heracles do?
stole her tripod and threatened to destroy delphi and make his own oracle
When Heracles threatened to make his own oracle, what god tried to stop him?
Apollo
When Heracles threatened to make his own oracle and apollo tried to stop him, who ended their fight?
Zeus
How did Zeus end the fight between Heracles and Apollo over the oracle?
he flung a thunderbolt between them
What did the pythia tell Heracles after he fought with Apollo?
that he would be cured of diseas if he sold himself into slavery for three years and gave the price to Iphitus’s sons
Who was Heracles sold to?
Omphale
What daughter of iardanes…
Omphale
What queen of Lydia was the wife of Tmolus?
Omphale
Where did Heracles capture the cercopes?
Ephesus
Who did Xenodice and Heracles kill together in Aulis?
Syleus
What did Syleus do with passerbys?
force them to till his vineyard
What daughter of Syleus helped Heracles kill her father?
Xenodice
What did Heracles use to kill Syleus?
Syleus’s hoe
Heracles destroyed the city of what people who had been attacking Omphale’s land for a long time?
the itoni
Near what river did Heracles kill a large snake?
The sagaris river
Who was the son of Heracles and Omphale?
Lamus
Who wore a dress while in servitude?
Heracles
After serving Omphale, who did Heracles bury?
Icarus
What island had Icarus’s body washed up on?
Doliche
On his way to avenge himself from Laomedon, who was Heracles’s chief Lieutenant?
Telamon
How many ships did heracles take to sail to Troy?
18
Who did Heracles leave to guard his ships at troy?
Oicles
Who managed to breech the walls of Troy during Heracles’s attack?
Telamon
Who said, “I am building an altar to Heracles, the Glorius Victor”?
Telamon
Who killed Laomedon?
Heracles
Heracles killed all of Laomedon’s sons except for whom?
Podarces
Heracles allowed Hesione to choose one captive to free, who did she choose?
Her brother, Podarces
After Laomedon, who became king of Troy?
Priam
Who did Heracles give Hesione to?
Telamon
Who was the son of Telamon and Hesione?
Teucer
Who was the son of Telamon and Eeriboea?
Ajax the greater
Who prayed to Zeus that Telamon would have a worthy son?
Heracles
On their way home from troy, heracles and his men were driven to the island Cos by whom?
Hera
On their way home from troy, heracles and his men were driven where by Hera?
the island Cos
After what event did Zeus hang Hera by her wrists from the heights of Olympus with anvils attached to her feet?
after she sent winds to push heracles and his men to the island cos when returning from troy
What did Zeus do to hera after she sent winds to push heracles to Cos?
He hung her by her wrists from mount olympus with anvils attached to her feet
At the island cos, what did the Coans to do heracles and his men?
tried to drive them away with stones
On the island Cos, who did Heracles kill?
King Eurypylus
Who killed King Eurypylus of Cos?
Heracles
Who were the parents of King Eurypylus?
Pos and Astypalaea
Who wounded Heracles on Cos?
Chalcodon
Who saved Heracles from Calcodon on Cos?
Zeus
What did an oracle predict about the war with the giants?
the giants could not be defeated without a mortal’s help
After destroying Cos, who appeared to Heracles and led him to the volcanic plains of Phlegra?
Athena
After destroying Cos, Athena appeared to Heracles and led him where?
to the volcanic plains of Phlegra
Who shot Ephialtes in the right eye?
Heracles
Who shot Alcyoneus and dragged him to Pallene where he died?
Heracles
Who did heracles shoot and drag to Pallene?
Alcyoneus
After helping the gods fight the giants, what king did Heracles attempt to exact revenge on?
King Augeias
Eurystheus exiled Heracles from Tiryns on what pretext?
That Heracles was plotting to overthrow the government
After being exiled from Tiryns, where did Heracles make his home?
Pheneus
Who helped Augieas against Heracles?
The moliones
Who did Heracles shoot on their way to the Isthmian games?
The moliones
Who did Heracles place on the throne of Elis after his father, Augieas was killed?
Phyleus
What son of Augeias was placed on the throne after Augeias died?
Phyleus
Who placed Phyleus on the thrown of elis?
Heracles
What games did Heracles found?
The olympic games
Who killed Neleus and eleven of his sons?
Heracles
Why did heracles kill Neleus and eleven of his sons?
Because he refused to purify Heracles for the murder of Iphitus
How did Periclymenus die?
Heracles shot him while he was in the form of an eagle
Which of Neleus’s sons survived?
Nestor
Who usurped the rule of sparta after driving out his brother Tyndareus?
Hippocoon
Why was heracles mad at Hippocoon?
He refused to purify him and his sons had killed Heracles’s young cousin Oeonus
