heracles and heraclids

Question 1

hercules 1st labor

Answer 1

kill the Nemean lion, was done by means of a club, skinning it by using the animals own claws, then carried the club and wore the lionskin

Question 2

hercules 2nd labor

Answer 2

kill Lernean hydra, hera sent a crab to make things more difficult (became constellation cancer), heracles was helped by his nephew iolaus, heracles killed both the hydra and the crab and dipped his arrows in the hydra’s poison

Question 3

hercules 3rd labor

Answer 3

fetch Cerynthian hind, hind with golden horns that was sacred to artemis, pursued it for a year then caught it and carried it back alive to eurystheus and then released it

Question 4

hercules 4th labor

Answer 4

fetch Erymanthian boar

Question 5

hercules 5th labor

Answer 5

clean Augean stables, helped by athena heracles diverted rivers alpheus and peneus, when he didnt get his reward (one tenth of the cattle) he came back with an army and killed augeas and after instituted the olympic games in the territory of ellis (where augeus lived)

Question 6

hercules 6th labor

Answer 6

chase away Stymphalian birds whose feathers were arrows

Question 7

hercules 7th labor

Answer 7

fetch Cretan bull that minos had failed to sacrifice to poseidon, heracles released it and it came to marathon where theseus caught it

Question 8

hercules 8th labor

Answer 8

fetch mares of Diomedes (son of ares) who owned a herd of mares that ate human flesh, heracles brought them to eurystheus who released them and dedicated them to hera (on his way to there he was entertained by admetus who had just lost his wife alcestis so heracles wrestled with thanatos aka death and got alcestis back for him)

Question 9

hercules 9th labor

Answer 9

fetch girdle of Hippolyta (queen of the amazons) was killed by heracles so that he could take her girdle back to eurystheus, on his way back he rescued hesione from the sea monster at troy and when he didnt get his reward he, take a guess, returned with an army, sacked troy, and replaced king laomedon with priam who had been called podarces

Question 10

hercules 10th labor

Answer 10

fetch cattle of Geryon from erythia, sailed there in a cup given to him by helius and killed geryon who had three bodies and his herdsman eutyion and hound orthrus and then drove the cattle back to greece, set up the pillars of heracles at the straits where the mediterranean sea meets the atlantic ocean as a monument of his journey to geryon’s island

Question 11

hercules 11th labor

Answer 11

retrieve golden apples of Hespirides (daughters of night), needed the help of athena and atlas to get the apples, around the apple tree was the serpent ladon, sea god nereus had to be held by heracles before he would tell the location of the garden, usually said to have held up the heavens with the help of athena while atlas got the apples then he gave the heavens back to atlas and brought them to eurystheus and later athena took them back to the garden of the hesperides

Question 12

hercules 12th labor

Answer 12

fetch Cerberus from the Underworld, said by heracles that this was the hardest labor, also saved theseus from the magic chair imprisonment, brought cerberus to eurystheus and then returned him to hades