Hercules

Question 1

Etymology of Heracles

Answer 1

Glory of Hera, hopefully to placate hera

Question 2

birth of Heracles

Answer 2

Hera sends two snakes to kill Heracles, he kills them while still in the cradle

Question 3

Tutor Litus

Answer 3

musical tutor, Heracles was terrible b/c he was so strong. He kills Litus, goes into exile to serve king Thespius

Question 4

Quest for Thespius

Answer 4

tracks and kills lion terrorizing the countryside. He impregnates all 50 daughters of Thespius. Children called the Heraclidae.

Question 5

Heracles in Thebes

Answer 5

liberates thebes working for Creon. He gets Megara, daughter of Creon for wife. Hera casts madness on Heracles, and he kills Megara and their children. Goes to Delphi to get rid of Miasma

Question 6

Megara

Answer 6

Daughter of Creon, married to Heracles, killed by Heracles

Question 7

Oracle of Delphi for Heracles

Answer 7

Serve his cousin and King Eurystheus, perform 12 labours and granted immortality at the end

Question 8

Types of Labours

Answer 8

Athlos- labors
Parergon- side quests
Praxis -Military Exploits

Question 9

Local Labours

Answer 9

located in the Peloponnesus:

1. Nemean Lion
2. Lernaean Hydra
3. Ceryneian Deer
4. Erymanthian Boar
5. Augean Stables
6. Stymphalian Birds

Question 10

Nemean Lion

Answer 10

Lion whose hide cannot be pierced by blades. Hercules wrestles the lion, and clubs it to death with tree trunk. Skins the lion with his own claws, takes the lion skin and club as his symbols

Question 11

Lernaean Hydra

Answer 11

Breathe is poison, 9 heads, 1 is immortal. Goes with his nephew Iolaus. Buries the immortal head under a GIANT boulder. Take poison from the fangs of Hydra

Question 12

Ceryneian Deer

Answer 12

Deer w/ golden horns. Sacred to Artemis. Find deer, w/o killing it or pissing off Artemis. Comes across Artemis, convinces her to let him live b/c he will release the deer

Question 13

Erymanthian Boar

Answer 13

Huge boar, kills it. Brings it back to Eurystheus, who is terrified and hides

Question 14

Side Quest of the Centaurs

Answer 14

Centaur Pholus had very powerful wine, very fragrant. Gives some to heracles, other centaurs attack thinking Herac. a thief. Chiron steps on one of Herac.’s poison arrows. he is immortal and in terrible pain, trades his immortality to Perseus

Question 15

Augean Stables

Answer 15

huge stables never cleaned, diverts streams into the stables and cleans them quickly. founds the Olympic Games

Question 16

Stymphalian Birds

Answer 16

Birds fire bronze feathers as projectile. Athena gives him castanets. Ioalus plays them scaring the birds out who then kills them.

Question 17

Foreign Labours

Answer 17

7. Cretan Bull

Question 18

Cretan Bull

Answer 18

Minos wasn’t king yet, king dies, giant bull is sent by Poseidon to prove that Minos should be king. Herac. goes to crete, asks bull from Minos. He says sure, capture it by yourself and bring it by yourself back to Tyrns. Herac. does so

Question 19

Horses of Diomedes

Answer 19

THRACE: Diomedes attacks Herac. with soldiers. herac, defeats them. Herac’s companion Abderus is eaten by the Horses. Herac. brings the flesheating horses back to Eurystheus

Question 20

Eursytheus

Answer 20

cousin of Heracles. King of tiryns, Heracles must do labours for him