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LCT19: Heracles II Flashcards

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Peloponnesian Labors

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Heracles first six labors

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FIRST Labor

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The Nemean Lion

  • offspring of Typhoios
  • skin invulnerable
  • Heracles tracks lion to its cave, wrestles it and strangles it
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The lionskin

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Heracles uses the dead lions own claw to flay its skin, wears lion skin from this point on (wears it as body armor)

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SECOND Labor

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The Lernaian Hydra

  • lives in swamps of Lerna
  • 9 headed water serpent (blood poisonous)
  • when on Hydra head dies, two grow back in its place
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Tourches of Iolaus

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scorches stumps of Hydra to prevent regeneration

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What does Heracles do with the Hydra’s blood?

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dips his arrows in it

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THIRD Labor

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The Cerynitian Deer

  • must be brought back alive from Mt. Lerynia
  • sacred to Artemis; tracks it for a year
  • catches it, carries it back to Eeurystheus
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FOURTH Labor

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The Erymanthian Boar

  • must be brought back alive from Mt. Erymanthos
  • Parergon (side adventure) - centaur battle!
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Who was the good centaur that had Heracles as a guest?

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Pholos - opens jar of wine for guest, shared by all neighboring centaurs

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What happens when the jar of wine is opened?

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attacks other centaurs - Heracles fights them off, purses them all over Greece, centaurs flee to cave of Cheiron

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What does Heracles accidentally do?

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shoots Cheiron w/ poisoned arrow –> Cheiron’s long life comes to an end

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What does Pholos do?

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drops poisoned arrow on his foot, dies

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FIFTH Labor

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The Cattle of Augeias

  • Augeias has vast heard of cattle; stables never cleaned
  • Heracles offers to clean stables in one day for 1/10 of Augeias’ heard
  • Heracles diverts two rivers into the stables
  • Augeias goes back on promise of cattle
  • Heracles returns after labors, kills Augeias
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SIXTH Labor

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The Stymphalian Birds

  • flock near forest on Stymphalion Marsh (shoot deadly steel-tipped feathers)
  • flushes them out w/ bronze rattles
  • shoots them all down w/ his bow
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Non-Peloponnosian Labors

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Heracles last six labors

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SEVENTH Labor

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The Cretan Bull

  • bull sacred to Poseidon
  • brings it alive to Eurystheus
  • lets it go free in Marathon
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EIGHTH Labor

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The Mares of Diomedes (King, son of Ares)

  • owns carnivorous horses
  • wounds Diomedes, feeds him to the horses
  • Heracles tames the horses, takes them back to Eurystheus
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NINTH Labor

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The War-Belt of Hippolyte

  • Heracles goes to Themiscyra with small army
  • Hippolyte offers her war-belt to Heracles
  • disguised Hera riles up the Amazons, who attack
  • Heracles kills Hippolyte in battle and takes the belt
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Amazons

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tribe of female warriors (maimed and enslaved male children)

- a+mazas = “breastless”- cut off right breast when young

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TENTH Labor

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The Cattle of Geryones

  • bring back cattle of Geryones from western island of Erytheia
  • Defeats Geryones
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Geryones - who is his ally?

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3-bodied man w/ herd of red cattle - ally: Orthos (2 headed dog)

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What does Helios give Heracles?

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a giant golden cup to help him sail to Erytheia

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ELEVENTH Labor

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The Apples of the Hesperides (daughters of Night)

  • guard golden apples on sacred tree near atlas
  • Heracles holds up sky while Atlas fetches the apples
  • Atlas returns, wants to take apples to Eurystheus himself but Heracles tricks Atlas, escapes with the apples
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Hesperides golden apples

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Gaia’s wedding gift to Zeus and Hera

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What does Heracles do on his way to get the golden apples?

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Frees Perometheus and Perometheus gives him advice - make use of Atlas

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TWELFTH Labor

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Cerberos

  • the hardest of his labors
  • Hades will let Heracles take Cerberos but no weapons allowed
  • Heracles wrestles Cerberos into submission
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Cerberos

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3 headed guard dog at the gates of the Underworld

- all free from him excel the ghost of Meleagros

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Who does Meleagros subject for Heracles to marry?

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Deianeira - Meleagros sister

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