hercules And That

Question 1

who were herculeses parents

Answer 1

zeus and alcheme as he disguised himself as her husband

Question 2

why is hercules a universal hero

Answer 2

as a human turned god his jourey is relevant to everyone as he was physically on earth

Question 3

what is the impotance of universal heros

Answer 3

showed the anthromorphic nature of gods but also the difference between hercules/mortals and the gods

Question 4

why was a mortal turned god important for romans

Answer 4

they believed that humans could be precendence- their founder aeneus and romulus became gods too and hercules provides a precendence thhat mortals truly can become gods

Question 5

how did hercules potentially found the olympics

Answer 5

after fighting and defeating augeus over the stables task hercule set up the olympics in honour of his victory and zeus as a celebration of human strength
provides the olympics with a significant divine orgin

Question 6

why may hecules have not founded the olympics

Answer 6

there was another figure earlier called hercules who was attributed with creating it and also there is the story of the kings cariot race

Question 7

how did herculeses 12 labours come about

Answer 7

hera was very jealous of hercules for his successes as he was not her child so she made him go mad and kill his family.
he asked the oracle delphi, who told him that he should serve his cousin eurystheus- his competitor at birth - and was told he had to complete 10 labours in order to purify his sins

Question 8

what was herculeses first task and how did it go

Answer 8

he killed the nemean lion by strangling it as he found it wasnt affected by weapons, he them skinned it and wore its hide

Question 9

what was herculeses second task and details

Answer 9

the hydra had many heads that kept gorwing back in double, hercules called on his cousinwho would burn the neck after he cut it off, stopping them from growing back
he dipped his arrows in its poisonous blood

Question 10

what was herculeses third task and details

Answer 10

the boar was a huge powerful animal but he managed to bring it back alive to the king

Question 11

what was his fourth task and details

Answer 11

the golden hind was very hard to find and took him a long time until it eventually wore out andhe brought it back

Question 12

what was the fifth task and details

Answer 12

the birds were angry and ate people, he got a rattle from athena which he used to startle them and then shoot them down

Question 13

what was his sixth task and details

Answer 13

the stables were home to loads of cows and augeus promised a remard if he could clean them in a day, hecules redirected a river through the middle and succeeded but didnt get any money in return

Question 14

what was seventh task and details

Answer 14

the bull was the father of the minootaur but hercules managed to bring it back

Question 15

what was the eighth task and details

Answer 15

the horses were trained to eat people by their master, so hercuels fed them their master and bid their mouths closed

Question 16

what was the ninth task and details

Answer 16

the belt was held by the queen of the amazones, hercules brought an earmy but he learned that she actually really respected him- that was until hera wrongly told her he planned to attack. thinking he’d been tricked, hercules fought and killed the queen of the amazones taking her belt

Question 17

what was the tenth task and details

Answer 17

the cattle were held at the end of the world by Greyon with six arms, hecules killed him with a poisoned arrow from the hydra

Question 18

what two labours were seen as not ok

Answer 18

the hydra as he had to have a second hand and the stables because he was going to accept money

Question 19

what were the last two tasks and details

Answer 19

to steal the holden apples protcted by hera, he had to find atlas who held up the heaevns. altlas fetched the apples as hercules held up the heavens but on return refused to swap back, hercules tricked him by saying he needed held repositioning himself and ran off with the apples
finally he wet dpwn the the underworld and asked for cerberus under the conditions that he would be returned

Question 20

what was the symbolism of the golden apples

Answer 20

they granted immortalit and were symbolic of his ascention into divine god life after finishing the tasks

Question 21

what is the symbolism of Hercules’ feature on the temple of zeus

Answer 21

they differ from his usual portayal,he is shown to be resting after fighting the lion, which shows him not to be an indestructable warrior but a flawed and brave mortal, encouraging the subjects to adapt the mindset
the emphasis is on humaniaty and endurance
he begins the taks sclean shaven and ends bearded which shows the physical toll it had on him
as well as the emphasis on humanity as athena is helping him hold the heavens with one hand while he (a human) is putting all of his strength into the task

Question 22

how is hercules portrayed in his homeric hym

Answer 22

he is seen as a dual character, both strong and invincible but also very human, he shows the best of those on earth but also the limitations of mortals
the hyms were only dedicated to gods so we see the acceptance of his divine figure
he bridges mortality and divinity- he aids the roman belief of precendence and also shows the struggle of god tasks on mortals

Question 23

who was cacus and how did hercules come across him

Answer 23

he was a fire breeathing son of vuclan whom stole some cattle from hercules was returning from his tenth labour

Question 24

how did hercules defeat cacus

Answer 24

he circled his lair three times showing resilience, cacus had blocked himself in, hercules got in and choked him to death

Question 25

why is herculeses defeat of cacus significant

Answer 25

it shows his duality as both an almost god and a human, he is resilient in his attempts to break into the lair and is clearly exhausted, but his help is seen as the intervention of a god.
he is also referred to as both zeuses and amphitryons son

Question 26

how is hercules seen as the protector of rome

Answer 26

the hill he defeated cacus on is one of the seven hills of rome, adding a divine link to the cities land and past

Question 27

significance of herculeses battle with achelous

Answer 27

hercules fights this river god to the death for a girls hand in marriage who tries to overcome him with magic, turning into a bull, and yet still fails w hercules strangling him.
here we can see the true extent of herculeses strentgh as he is a mortal who can fight of the divine

Question 28

how did herucleses death come about, the beginning

Answer 28

as he and his new wife were crossing a river after defeating achelous he was offered help carrying her over by the centaur nessus. however nessus then tried to steal his wife, hercules shot him with one of the hydra arrows and the poison mixed with his blood. in his final moments nessus gifted his poisoned cloak to the new wife

Question 29

ow did herculeses death happen adn what happened next

Answer 29

his wife feared that he was unfaithful to her and gifted him the cloak as an attempt to make him faithful, or potentially he just worse it mindlessly. he was wearing it as he performed a sacrifice and the flames ignited the venom in the cloak which ripped his skin off
whilst the human half of hercules was destroyed in the fire his godly side was allowed up to olympus as one of the godds

Question 30

whioch of the hercules stories are roman myth

Answer 30

hercules and cacus
hercules and achelous
hercules and nessus