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
Why did Hippocoon’s sons kill Oeonus?
Oeonus had thrown a stone at their dog
Who was murdered for throwing a stone at a dog?
Oeonus
Before attacking sparta, who did Heracles seek help from?
Cepheus, king of Tegea
Why was Cepheus reluctant to leave Tegea to go with Heracles to attack sparta?
he was worried that while he was away, enemies might take tegea
Who was the daughter of Cepheus?
Sterope
What did Heracles give Sterope?
a lock of Medusa’s hair
Who gave Heracles a lock of Medusa’s hair?
Athena
Who gave Sterope a lock of Medusa’s hair?
heracles
What did Heracles tell Sterope to do with Medusa’s hair?
if the city was beseiged she shoudl hold up the lock of hair three times on the city wall while averting her eyes
What sister of Cepheus did heracles seduce?
Auge
Who was the son of Heracles and Auge?
Telephus
Who killed Hippocoon and all of his sons?
Heracles
Where did Iphicles die?
Sparta
Who cured the wound Heracles had gotten while fighting hippocoon in sparta?
Asclepius
Who restored Tyndareus to power?
Heracles
After killing Hippocoon, who did Heracles go to live with?
King Oeneus
Who rivaled Heracles for the hand of Deianeira?
Achelous
Who wrestled Achelous and broke off one of his horns?
Heracles
What daughter of Oeneus…
Deianeira
What centaur did Heracles kill when he tried to carry Deianeira off?
Nessus
Who was heracles’s second wife?
Deianeira
How did Heracles repay king oeneus for Deianeira?
He led the calydonians against the thesprotians
What daughter of Phylas did Heracles seduce?
Astyoche
Who was the son of Heracles and Astyoche?
Tlepolemus
Who introduced the poplar tree to the Peloponnesus?
Heracles
In calydon, either Eunomus or Cyathus annoyed Heracles and so Heracles did what?
gave him a rap on his knuckles which killed him
Where did Heracles and Deianeira go after calydon?
Trachis
What river did Nessus ferry Deianeira accross?
evenus
Who shot the centaur Nessus?
Heracles
Why did Heracles shoot the centaur Nessus?
He tried to rape Deianeira
What did Nessus tell Deianeira?
to take his blood as a love charm
Why was Nessus’s blood poisoned?
Because of the hydra’s blood on heracles’s arrows
Who drove the Dryopes from Doris?
Heracles
What dryopian king did Heracles kill?
Laogoras
What son of Ares and Pelopia challenged Heracles to a single combat?
Cycnus
Who killed Cycnus and injured Ares?
Heracles
Who aided Cycnus against Heracles?
Ares
Who advised Heracles not to pursue Ares after fighting Cycnus?
Athena
Where did Heracles leave Deianeira when he went to fight Eurytus?
Trachis
Where did Heracles build an altar to Zeus?
cape cenaeum
What herald did Heracles send to Trachis to fetch a fresh tunic?
Lichas
Deianeira felt threatened by what concubine of Heracles which is why she smeared the love charm on Heracles’s tunic?
Iole
Who brought Heracles the tunic that killed him?
Lichas
Who poisoned Heracles’s tunic?
Deianeira
Who did Heracles kill while he was dying?
Lichas
Who killed herself because of Heracles’s death?
Deianeira
Who accompanied Heracles to the top of Mount Oeta as he was dying?
Hyllus
Who built Heracles’s funeral pyre?
Hyllus
Who lit Heracles’s funeral pyre?
Poeas or philoctetes
What did Heracles give philoctestes?
His bow and arrows
Who did Heracles marry on Olympus?
hebe
Who was Heracles’s third wife?
Hebe
Who did Heracles persuade Hebe to renew the youth of?
Iolaus
Who tried to defend Heracles’s children from Eurystheus?
Iolaus
Who appeared to Philoctetes to persuade him to go to the trojan war?
Heracles
What son of Alcaeus…
Amphytrion
Who accidentally killed his father-in-law…
Amphytrion
What father-in-law of Amphytrion…
Electryon
What brother of Electryon…
Sthenelus
Who refused to lie with her husband until he avenged…
Alcmene
Murdered by Taphian pirates, what woman’s brothers…
Alcmene
Who successfully led an expedition against the Taphian islands…
Amphytrion
Who was chagrined at the rather perfunctory reception he met…
Amphytrion
Who was surprised when she was regaled with the same tales…
Alcmene
Whose innocent, if premature abandonment…
Alcmene
Who patiently waited to see whether his wife would bear a god’s…
Amphytrion
Who, pretending not to believe her husband…
Hera
The throne that should have belonged to Amphytrion was usurped…
Sthenelus harder round Eurystheus easier
The rule of Tiryns and Mycenae…
Eurystheus
Who may have died in childbirth if one of her attendants…
Alcmene
What attendant of Alcmene…
Galanthus
Who sat with her legs and fingers tightly crossed…
Eleithyia
Who cried joyfully at the birth of her mistress’s child…
Galanthis
According to Diodorus Siculus, who, fearing the anger of Hera, exposed…
Alcmene
Who was persuaded to rear her own child by Athena…
Alcmene
What baby, who Zeus put to the sleeping Hera’s breast…
Heracles
Whose question was answered in a spectacular manner when the son of his wife…
Amphitryon
No more than 8 or ten months old, what two brothers…
Iphicles and Heracles
What man taught his stepson to drive the chariot…
Amphitryon
What wily thief taught Heracles…
Autolycus
What archer king of Oechalia…
Eurytus
Although he seems to have relied very little on the use of his sword, what man was taught…
Heracles
Whose lyre lessons ended in disaster…
Heracles
What brother of Orpheus…
Linus
When he struck his pupil for some unrecorded offense, what…
Linus
Because he argued self-defense, what man was acquitted of a charge of murder…
Heracles
At least six feet tall by seventeen…
Heracles
Who, so expert with both bow and spear…
Heracles
Who could rely on craft in wrestling as well as on his own prodigious strength…
Heracles
A lion that had been roaming Mount Cithaeron and eating the flocks…
Heracles
The flocks of Thespius and Amphitryon…
Cithaeronian lion
What king’s interest in the prowess of his young neighbor…
Thespius
Who entertained young Heracles for fifty nights…
Thespius
Who, a little befuddled by wine, was unaware of the traffic in his bedroom…
Heracles
Whose daughter was condemned to be a virgin priestess in the temple of Heracles…
Thespius
A far more formidable beast than the one that lived on Cithaeron…
Nemean Lion
While returning from Mount Cithaeron, Heracles…
Erginus
What king of Orchomenus…
Erginus
The ears and noses of what man’s heralds…
Erginus
Whose heralds, sent back to Orchomenus…
Erginus
What city, whose armor had been taken by the Orchomenians…
Thebes
Who offered to give up Heracles…
Creon
Who, not content with the routing of Orchomenus…
Heracles
Although whether he was killed or subdued is disputed, what man’s kingdom was forced to pay…
Erginus
What city pays double tribute to Thebes…
Orchomenus
What woman, who many assume was given to Heracles as a reward…
Megara
What Euboean man may have attempted to usurp the throne of Heracles…
Lycus
Who, on the point of executing Heracles’s wife Megara and their children…
Lycus
His children, two children of his nephew…
Heracles
Who exiled himself from Thebes…
Heracles / maybe Oedipus
What man, who purified Heracles of the murder of his children…
Thespius
Though most claim King Thespius purified him…
Nausithous and Macris
Who, claimed by some as the first to call Alcaeus Heracles…
Pythia
What three sons of Heracles…
Therimachus, Creontiades, and Deicoon
What man, who may have been a son of the nymph Melite…
hyllus
Either Thespius or Nausithous and Macris purified Heracles for the murder…
Therimachus, Creontiades, Deicoon
What weakling, who occupied the throne which would have been Heracles’s own…
Eurystheus
Either one of the monstrous offspring of Orthus and Echidna or suckled by the moon goddess…
Nemean Lion
On his way to Nemea…
Molorchus
Cyprus or Cythera…
Aphrodite
At the hut of what day laborer…
Molorchus
What man, who had evidently never encountered such a formidable man as Heracles…
Molorchus
Who, told to wait for 30 days for the return of Heracles…
Molorchus
A two-mouthed cave was the lair of what creature…
Nemean Lion
Who blocked off one end of a cave and strode in, urarmed, at the other mouth…
Heracles
Who looked up from his preparations for a hero sacrifice…
Molorchus
Who, on the thirteenth day of waiting…
MolorchusWho dutifully switched to the more elaborate rites due to a god…
Because of his terror, Eurystheus sent all orders by what…
Copreus
Who dutifully switched to the more elaborate rites due to a god…
molorchus
Hiding in a bronze storage jar set in the earth…
Eurystheus
What herald of Eurystheus…
Copreus
What half-sister of the Nemean lion…
Hydra
Who, nourished by Hera herself out of hatred for Heracles…
Hydra
Near the spring Amymone, what monster…
Hydra
Who lived in company with its devoted friend near the spring…
Hydra
What monster, driven into the open with a flight of burning arrows…
Hydra
What creature, whose middle head…
Hydra
Who bellowed for help to his nephew…
Heracles
What charioteer of Heracles…
Iolaus
What son of Iphicles…
Iolaus / Protestalius
Who brought burning brands to assist…
Iolaus
Buried beneath a stone beside the road that led from Lerna to Elaeus…
Hydra
The road that led from Lerna to Elaeus…
Hydra
What golden-horned deer…
Cerynitian Hind
What creature roamed around Oenoe…
Cerynitian Hind
In order to capture it alive, Heracles pursued…
Cerynitian Hind
After crossing Mount Artemisius, beside the river Ladon, Heracles….
Cerynitian Hind
Who, while carrying a deer on his shoulder through Arcadia…
Heracles
What beast, which ravaged the country about Psophis…
Erymanthian Boar
What son of of Seilenus…
Pholus
Though some say the wine belonged to all the Centaurs…
probably pholus
What group, driven from the Peloponnesus to their native Magnesia…
Centaurs
Though Heracles drove most of the centaurs back to their home on Malea…
Eurytion / Nessus / Poseidon
Who managed to escape to the river Evenus…
Nessus
What centaur lived just long enough to regret his guest’s assistance…
Pholus
Who, while examining one of Heracles’ arrows after the battle…
Pholus
Because he wanted to die, some say Cheiron gave his immortality…
Prometheus
During what labor had Heracles heard that Jason was…
Erymanthian boar
What man, hearing that Jason was gathering the bravest men of Greece…
Heracles
Because he couldn’t bear to be left out, what man postponed…
Heracles
Though some say he got no farther than Aphetae…
Heracles
During Heracles’s war with the Dryopes, what king…
Theiodamas
What son of Theiodamas…
Hylas
Who, left on Mt. Myrtium…
Asclepius
Who noted the great beauty of his victim Theiodamas’s son…
Heracles
Nearly grown to manhood, what son of Theiodamas…
Hylas
When the Argo landed in Mysia, what squire…
Hylas
While Heracles cut himself a new oar…
Hylas
While in Mysia, who sent his squire…
Hylas
Hearing his cry but unable to find him, what fellow argonaut of Hylas…
Polyphemus
Heracles went roaming through the woods of Mysia, wild…
Hylas
At the insistence of what two men did the Argonaut…
Zeetes and Calais
For many centuries the citizens of what city, founded by Polyphemus…
Cius
Who did Heracles later meet on the island of Tenos…
Zeetes and Calias
Stones, one of which swayed in the breath of the north wind…
Zeetes and Calias
Perhaps angry at Heracles’s temporary defection…
Augeian stables
The dung of whose cattle, deposited so thickly on his land…
Augeias
Who demanded 1/10 of the cattle…
Heracles
What son of Augeias…
Phyleus
Though the literal-minded traveler Pausanias insists the river must have in fact been the Menius…
Alpheius and Penius
As Heracles had anticipated, what man refused to honor his contract…
Augeias
Claiming that it had been the laborer’s duty to perform the work without pay…
Augieas
What man fled to Dulichium…
Phyleus
Leaving Elis, Heracles for some reason stopped at Olenus, where what centaur…
Eurytion
Leaving Elis, Heracles for some reason stopped at Olenus, where what King…
Dexamenus
What daughter of Dexamenus…
Mnesimache
For what labor did Heracles find himself doubly repaid for his cleverness…
Augeian Stables
On the grounds that Heracles had undertaken it for hire…
Augeian Stables
What animals which, according to Apollodorus, were ordinary birds that had taken refuge…
Stymphalian Birds
Either a rattle or a pair of bronze castanets…
Stmphalian birds
Sometimes harmless birds, sometimes man-eating, other times feather-shooting…
Stymphalian birds
Perhaps because he hoped expeditions into foreign territories would prove more dangerous…
Cretan bull
After wandering about the Peloponnesus, what animal reached Athens…
Cretan bull
Who, sent by Aegeus to capture the Cretan Bull…
Androgeus
What task, which Androgeus attempted with disastrous results…
Marathonian bull
While on his way to Thrace, Heracles was entertained…
Admetus
Who, in order that his guest’s pleasure should not be lessened…
Admetus
Who passed through Thessaly on his way to Thrace…
Heracles
Embarrassed at his own seeming callousness, Heracles rushed to what…
Alcestis
Who ambushed Thanatos…
heracles
Who left the mares of Diomedes…
Heracles
When the Bistones came in pursuit…
probably abderus
Who returned to the shore to find that the mares…
abderus
What group of animals were later eaten by wild animals on Mount Olympus…
mares of diomedes
According to Diodorus Siculus, Heracles calmed the voracious….
Diomedes
To please his daughter Admete…
Hippolyta’s belt
What daughter of Eurystheus….
Admete
What daughter of Ares and Otrera…
Hippolyta
What man, who some say accompanied Heracles to Themyscira…
telamon
On the southern shore of the Black Sea lay the Thermodon…
Amazons
While on their way to Mysia/Amazons, what island…
Pharos
What island, ruled by sons of Minos…
Paros
What island, besieged by Heracles until the people begged him to take hostages…
Paros
What young sons of Androgeus…
Alcaeus and sthenelus
Heracles repaid the hospitality of Lycus by aiding…
Bebryces / Mygdon
What brother of the notorious King Amycus…
Mygdon
The Thermedon river…
Amazons
The Bercrycian territory taken by Heracles was renamed Heracleia by what…
Lycus
What Amazonian capital…
Themiscyra
Who boarded the ship for a parley with Heracles…
Hippolyta
Who, chagrined that one of Heracles’ labors should be accomphed with so little danger…
Hera
Who posed as an Amazon…
Hera or mabye achilles
Who aroused the Amazons…
Hera
What sister of Hippolyte fell in love with Theseus…
Antiope
Who betrayed the Amazons…
Antiope
On the homeward voyage from Themiscyra, what king…
Laomedon
Who, with the help of the mortal Aeacus…
Apollo and poseidon
Who, told by an oracle to offer his daughter Hesione…
Laomedon
In return for the girl and the handsome mares Zeus had…
probably heracles
Heracles occasionally took refuge on a wall that the Trojans had built, aided by Athena, while saving what…
Hesione
Because Heracles didn’t have a force of sufficient size, what king of Troy…
laomedon
As Heracles was embarking from the Thracian town of Aenus…
Sarpedon
What brother of Poltys…
Sarpedon
After sailing from Aenus, what large island off the Thracian coast…
Thasus
A large island off the Thracian coast named Thasus…
Androgeus and Sthenelus / Androgeus
What sons of Proteus…
Polygonus and Telegonus
When the ship of Heracles reached Torone…
Polygonus and Telegonus / Proteus
What son of Callirhoe and Chrysaor…
Geryon
3 heads, or else the body of three men…
Geryon
Upon reaching the Strait of Gibraltar…
Calpe and Abyla
To show future travelers how far he had come, Heracles set up…
Calpe and Abyla
Sometimes to have been built to bar sea-monsters from the Mediterranean Sea…
Heracles
Sometimes said to be originally joined and wrenched apart by Heracles…
Calpe and Abyla
While traveling through Libya, wearied by the sun’s heat, what man…
Heracles
Heracles waited on Mount Abas for what son of Typhon…
Orthus
After killing Orthus with his club, Heracles gave the same treatment to what…
Eurytion
Heracles would have gone off with the cattle without troubling Geryon…
Menoetes
What herdsman of Hades…
Menoetes
At the river Anthemus, Heracles shot what…
geryon
Passing through Abderia, Heracles was attacked by what…
Ialebion and Dercynus
What sons of Pos…
Ialebion and Dercynus
While in the region about what is now Marseilles, the sons of Pos attacked Heracles and attempted to steal what…
Cattle of Geryon
If Zeus had not caused a shower of stones to fall, Heracles would have been killed…
Ligurians / Ialebion and Dercynus
Stones still litter the plains west of Marseilles after Zeus saved what…
Heracles
While Heracles, proceeding down the Italian peninsula, rested on the future site of Rome…
Cacus
By dragging the cattle by the tails, what monster…
Cacus
Though he barricaded himself in his cave, Heracles managed to kill what…
Cacus
According to a strange story told by Herodotus, Heracles…
Scythes probably
Who, sleeping in a region called merely Forest, awoke to find some of his mares…
Heracles
A woman whose body was that of a snake from the waist down…
Heracles
Only the youngest of Heracles’s three sons by a snake woman…
Scythes
When Heracles arrived at Rhegium…
probably eryx
Heracles left the cattle of Geryon in the care of Hephaestus…
eryx
Who, so sure of his own strength that he wagered his kingdom against Heracles’s herd…
eryx
Heracles killed what man in either boxing…
eryx
Heracles could not remain to take possession of the land ruled by what…
Eryx
Once a wedding gift from Ge to Hera…
Apples of hesperides
A grove somewhere at the ends of the earth…
hesperides apples
Daughters of Zeus and Themis who lived on the Eridanus…
apples of hesperides
Either beyond the river Oceanus or the north wind, or somewhere in the farthest reaches of Libya lay…
apples of hesperides
Perhaps near the mountains where the Titan Atlas…
apples of hesperides
Perhaps on his way back from the Eridanus, Heracles shot and killed…
Prometheus
Passing through Arabia, Heracles killed what…
Emathion
What ruler of Egypt once called in a foreign…
Busiris
What son of Poseidon and Lysianassa…
Busiris
Who demonstrated his faith in the advise of a foreign seer…
Busiris
Both what king and his son Amphidamas…
Busiris
While moving westward through Libya, Heracles encountered what…
Antaeus
Who made a practice or forcing strangers to wrestle with him…
Antaeus
Realizing that his foe’s strength was coming from contact with…
Antaeus
Who was lifted into the air and crushed in a great bear hug…
Antaeus
Who offered to relieve Atlas…
Herky
Who, after it became apparent he had no intention of resuming the tiresome…
Atlas
Heracles was forced to resort to his wits to escape…
Atlas
What gullible giant laid down the apples…
Atlas
Some say what constellation shows Heracles fighting either Ladon…
Kneeler
Either Heracles’s fight with Ladon or with the Ligurians…
Kneeler
The Argonauts were saved from dying by what bereaved…
Herperides
A spring that Heracles, with a petulant kick…
Argonauts/Hesperides
A hound with three or fifty heads and a snake’s tail…
Cerberus
In preparation for what task, the most difficult of all, did Heracles go to Eleusis…
12th
Who, purified by Eumolpus, adopted by Pylius, and finally inducted by Musaeus…
Herky
What son of Orpheus…
Musaeus
What man, who may have initiated Heracles into the Eleusinian mysteries…
Musaeus
Guided by Hermes and perhaps by Athena as well to Taenarum…
herky
When Heracles entered the gates of the Underworld, the shades of the dead fled from him…
Meleager / Medusa
Who in the Underworld did Heracles draw his sword against…
Medusa
Who held out their arms imploringly to Heracles as he passed by…
Theseus and Pirithous
Who rolled away the stone which Demeter had laid…
herky boy
A stone laid by Demeter and rolled away by Heracles…
ascalaphus
Who, taking pity on the thirsty shades
herky
Whose ribs were cracked by Heracles…
Menoetes
Had Persephone not begged him to stop…
Menoetes
Some claim that, while in the Underworld, Heracles fought with Hades and wounded…
Paeon
What physician of the gods…
Paeon
Who emerged into daylight at one or another of the many entrances to Hades…
Heracles
Claiming that his marriage was obviously an unlucky one, Heracles gave Me…
Iolaus
Recalling Heracles’s murder of his own children in a fit of madness…
Eurytus / Iole
Who, in spite of the pleas of his elder son Iphitus…
Eurytus
Whose mares, sometimes said to have been stolen by Autolycus and other times by Heracles…
Eurytus
What region, placed in regions as far apart as Messenia, in the western…
Oechalia
Who found Heracles near Pherae…
Iphitus
Who invited Heracles to join him in his search for the missing…
Iphitus
What man did Heracles fling from the roof…
Iphitus
Flung either from the walls of Tiryns or the roof of Heracles’s house…
Iphitus
Heracles was punished with a terrible disease for the murder…
Iphitus
What ally of Eurytus…
neleus
Heracles was purified at Amyclae by Deiphobus…
Iphitus
What daughter of Iardanes…
Omphale
What son of either Hippolytus or Hippocoon…
Deiphobus
What Pythia refused…
Xenocleia
Heracles not only stole the tripod of this woman…
Xenocleia
Heracles fought with what god until Zeus flung…
Apollo
What man would be cured of his disease only if he permitted himself to be sold…
Heracles
What wily brothers did Heracles…
cercopes
At Ephesus, what wily brothers…
cercopes
What city, whose people had long harried Omphale’s…
Itoni
What daughter of Syleus…
Xenodice
Near the river Sagaris…
Omphale / Ophiuchus
Who occupied his time with music and even with spinning…
Heracles
Who, so grateful to her unusual slave that she freed him…
Omphale
What son of Heracles and Omphale…
Lamus
While in servitude to Omphale, a slave girl bore Heracles…
Cleodaeus
On his return voyage to Greece from Lydia, whose corpse did Heracles…
Icarus
Whose body, which had washed ashore on the island of Doliche…
Icarus
What island, formerly known as Doliche…
Icaria
Who sailed against Troy with 18 fifty-oared ships…
Herky
18 fifty-oared ships…
Heracles / Troy
Perhaps because he found himself in Asia minor, Heracles began…
Laomedon
What Argive man, left by Heracles to guard the ships…
Oicles
The Greeks might have had to settle in for a long and costly siege of the strong-walled city if what…
Telamon
Heracles, insulted that what lieutenant…
Telamon
Well acquainted with Heracles’s character, what…
Telamon
What man, who may have sided with the Greeks against his unscrupulous father…
Priam
What shrewd Salaminian diligently began to gather stones into…
Telamon
Provided that she pay a token ransom for him, Heracles consented…
Priam
What man, whose name is derived from a form of the verb “to buy,”…
Priam
Apparently, still overcome with gratitude for Telamon’s flattery…
Zeus / BDE
What wife of Telamon…
Eeriboea
What man, named for the eagle who signaled his birth…
Ajax the greater
In driving the Greek vessels to what island did Hera…
Cos
Who sent violent northerly winds against the Greek vessels…
Hera
The Greeks were driven the length of the coast of Asia Minor to Cos by what…
hera
What people, sometimes said to be named from an early king, Merops…
Coans
The people of what island chased the Greek forces with stones…
Cos
What son of Pos and Astypalea…
Eurypylus
Zeus snatched Heracles away in time to save him…
Calcodon
As soon as Heracles had razed Cos, Athena appeared…
Giants
Who shot the Giant Ephialtes in the right…
Herky
Who, dragged to Pallene…
Alcyoneus
What peninsula that juts from Chacidice…
Pallene
What man, who had powerful generals in Amarynceus and the Moliones…
Augeias
What sons of Actor…
probably moliones
Partly perhaps because of an illness that Heracles suffered…
probably Augieas
Who waited until the Isthmian games were about to be celebrated…
Heracles
Who hid by the road through Cleonae…
Heracles
Who, on their way as Eleian ambassadors to the Is…
Moliones
While on their way to the Isthmian games…
Moliones
Though it may be a misreading of Homer, many claim the Pylains were aided in their…
hades
Because he was living in Gerenia at the time…
Nestor
Who, shot when he was in the form of an eagle…
Periclymenus
Who did Heracles place on the throne of Elis…
Phyleus
Who established various shrines at Olympus, including one for his great-grandfather Pelops…
Herky
Who, killed alongside eleven of his sons…
Neleus
What ally of Neleus…
Hippocoon
What man, who had usurped the rule of Sparta after driving out his brother Tyndareus…
Hippocoon
Who, like Neleus, refused…
Hippocoon
Who had doubly offended Heracles…
Hippocoon
Whose twelve sons had murdered Heracles’s….
Hippocoon
Because he threw a stone at a dog, what cousin…
Oeonus
What king of Tegea…
Cepheus
Before attacking powerful Sparta, Heracles sought aid…
Cepheus
What young cousin of Heracles…
Oeonus
What daughter of Cepheus…
Sterope
Who, presented with a lock of hair of Medusa…
Sterope
Who, if her city were besieged, need only hold up the lock…
Sterope
What sister of Cepheus…
Auge
While carrying on negotiations with Cepheus…
Auge / Telephus
Who, cured by Asclepius while fighting against Sparta…
Heracles
Who, recalled from his haven in Aetolia…
Tyndareus
Cepheus and his sons were killed fighting what…
Hippocoon
What man, whose wounds were cured by Asclepius…
maybe herky
What Aetolian river-god became a rival…
Achelous
Who, begging for his horn back…
Achelous
The horn of Amalthea was given in exchange…
Achelous
Hyginus claims that Deineira was the daughter of what…
Dexamenus
Heracles married Deianeria and repaid her father by leading…
Thesprotians
While taking the Thesprotian city of Ephyra, Heracles seduced what…
Astyoche
What daughter of Phylas…
Astyoche
What son of Heracles and Astyoche…
Tlepolemus
What son of Architeles…
Eunomus/Cyathus
While in Ephyra, Heracles sent direction to what king…
Thespius
While in Thesprotia, Heracles took a fancy to what…
White poplar trees
During a Calydonian banquet, who was served with wine, or with water for washing…
herky
Since the killing was accidental, Oeneus forgave his son-in-law…
Eunomus/Cyathus
Heracles, because he felt that he should observe the law that murders, intentional or otherwise…
Eunomus/Cyathus
For some reason, the Phlians claimed that what man’s death occured…
Eunomus
Not long after leaving Calydon, Heracles and Deineria…
Evenus / nessus
Driven from Arcadia long before by Heracles, what centaur had established a profitable…
nessus
What rascally centaur was impudent enough…
Nessus
Who, though he needed no ferry for himself…
heracles
Who, as he was striding breast-deep through the water…
heracles
Who, knowing her husband had already taken one concubine in the short time…
Deianeira
What region, in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta…
Trachis
What man, who drove the Dryopes from Doris…
Heracles
To aid either the Malian king Ceyx, or Aegimius, what man…
Heracles
What king of the Dorians of Hestiaeotis…
Aegimius
Heracles once killed what son of Caeneus…
Coronus
Who killed the Dryopian king Laodoras…
Herky
What peoples, neighbor enemies of the Dorians…
Lapiths
Who refused to accept the land that Aegimius had promised…
Heracles
What son of Ares and Pelopia…
Cycnus
When Heracles was passing near Itonus, in Pthiontis…
Cycnus
At Ormenium, not far from Itonus…
Amyntor
What daughter of Amyntor…
Deidamia
Leaving Deineira in Trachis, Heracles raised an army…
Eurytus / Oechalia / Iole
What sons of Licymnius…
Argius and Melas
What man and his surviving sons fought bravely, killing Ceyx’s son…
Eurytus
What son of Ceyx…
Hippasus
Who raised an army of Malians, Locrians, and Arcadians and advanced on Oechalia…
Heracles
Coming to Cepe Cenaeum, what man…
Heracles
Because he wishing to observe the rites of sacrifice with all propriety, what man sent his herald…
Lichas
What herald of Heracles…
Lichas
Who, learning of her husband’s new young concubine…
Deianeira
The venom of what monster, which Heracles had used to destroy so many…
Hydra
In agony, Heracles picked up what innocent herald…
Lichas
Who, whirled about by his heels and flung into the sea…
Lichas
A body, turned to stone, still bears the name…
Lichas
Who, learning of the horror she had unknowingly worked…
Deianeria
What eldest son of Deianeira…
Hyllus
Accompanied by what man, Heracles climbed…
Hyllus
Who, accompanied by Hyllus…
Heracles
Who climbed to the top of Mount Oeta…
Heracles / Hyllus
Who, at his father’s command, built a pyre…
Hyllus
Neither his son for any of the mourners could bring themselves to set the pyre of what…
Herky
What man, passing by with his flocks, consented to light the pyre…
Poeas maybe Philoctetes
When Iolaus, then an old man, was trying to defend Heracles…
probably hebe
As two stars, what couple rode into battle with the now vigorous…
Heracles and Hebe
