Hercules/Heracles Flashcards
Who were Hercules’s parents?
Zeus and Alcmene
How did Zeus get Alcmene pregnant?
Pretended to be her husband who was at war and slept with her
Who was Hercules’s step father and husband of his mother?
Amphitryon
What was Hercules’s ‘twin’ brother called?
Iphicles
How did Amphityron find out someone slept with his wife?
From a seer but relieved when he found it was a god
Why did Hera not like Hercules?
He was the child of Zeus’s affair
What did Zeus boast
His son would rule the earth
What did Hera do after Zeus boasted?
Made him vow that first son born of house of perseus that night would rule
What did Hera ask Eileithyia to do?
Prolong Alcmene’s labour until Eurystheus was born
Where did Eurystheus become king of?
Mycenae
What did Hera send to Hercules as a baby?
Two snakes but Hercules strangled them
What did Alcmene do when scared of Hera’s wrath?
Left Hercules in a forrest?
Who found Hercules in the forrest and what did they do?
Athene took him to Mount Olympus to be taken in?
He refused Hercules’s entry to Olympus?
Hera
Who is Hercules’s protector?
Athene
Who was Hercules’s wife?
Megara
What did Hera send to Hercules when he grew up and what happened?
Sent Goddess madness to infect him and it meant he went insane and killed his wife and three kids
What did Hercules do after killing his family?
Exiled himself from Thebes and went to the Oracle at Delphi
What did the Oracle say?
To serve King Eurystheus for 12 years
Who actually controlled the Oracle when Hercules spoke to it?
Hera
What was Hercules first Labour?
Nemean Lion
What happened in the First Labour
Hera trained the lion, he tried attacking with bow and arrow but failed cos of skin, stunned it with club and strangled to death, skinned it with its claw