Herakles 12 Labors Flashcards
Why did Herakles complete the 12 labors?
Hera drove him mad, killed his first wife (Megara) and their children
Who gives Herakles the 12 labors?
His cousin and king of Mycenae, Eurystheus
Depiction: Lion is lying down with Herakles standing over it or is wrestling it
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Nemean Lion
Either wrestled the lion or made a club to kill it, skinned the lion with its own claw, skin became a protective cloak
Depiction: Man standing by/ fighting a multiple snake-headed monster
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Lernean Hydra
Cauterized each stump of a decapitated head, cut off the immortal head of the hydra, and cut her open to keep her from coming back to life
Depiction: 2 people stand around Herakles as he holds a severed deer antler (deer is also there)
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Ceryneian Deer
Caught the deer and let it go (wish of Artemis and Apollo)
Depiction: Herakles holds boar over Eurystheus’s head (hiding in a pot/vessel)
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Erymanthian Boar
A centaur gives Herakles centaur wine, he and a few centaurs fight some others, Chiron dies (trades his immortality for Prometheus’s mortality), ends up killing the boar eventually
Depiction: Herakles with a gardening tool works (some while Athena points at the ground)
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Augean Stables
Redirects a nearby river to flood and clean the stables
Depiction: Birds, bow and arrow
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Stymphalion Birds
Herakles ruffled the birds up so they flew into the air and then shot him with his arrows
Depiction: Herakles fighting an angry bull or grabbing it by the horns
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Cretan Bull
Grabbed the bull by the horns and rode it over the sea back to Mycenae, bull is let go and waders to Marathon
Depiction: Herakles and a horse or horses eating people mosaic
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Horses of Diomedes
Captures the horses and feeds Diomedes to them, they later get eaten by wolves
Depiction: Vase painting of Herakles (lion’s head) and two Amazons with swords and shields
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Girdle of Hippolyta
Hippolyta likes Herakles so she gives it to him, Hera starts a rumor among Amazons that Herakles is bad and he ends up killing Hippolyta to get away
Depiction: Herakles with a bow and club sitting in a cup
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Cattle of Geryon
Helius sent Herakles a cup to float in to get the cattles, kills a bunch of people, floats back in the same cup (with the cattle), cattle are sacrificed to Hera
Depiction: Herakles stands by the golden apple tree or Herakles holding the sky while talking to Atlas/Hera to the side
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Apples of the Hesperides
Herakles holds up the sky while Atlas gets the apples, tricks Atlas into holding up the sky again (runs away)
Depiction: Herakles holds a club and has Cerberus on a leash
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Cerberus
Herakles gets permission from Hades and Persephone to take Cerberus but couldn’t use weapons, he gets a collar and leash on Cerberus, wears impenetrable lion skin
