![]() This monster was a huge venomous snake with a hundred heads (some say less, some say more).Eurystheus orders Heracles to go kill the Hydra.(This turns out to be Heracles' signature look he wears his trusty lion skin cape for the rest of his life.) After he kills the lion, Heracles skins it and wears its hide as a cape.(You don't need a sword when you're Heracles.) Heracles goes to Nemea, finds the lion, and strangles it to death.Eurystheus orders Heracles to go and kill this monster.So, there was this place called Nemea, which was being troubled by a giant lion that couldn't be pierced by sword or spear."Okey doke," says Heracles, "What do you want me to do?".Eurystheus tells Heracles that he has to perform ten labors for him.(If it wasn't for a trick of Hera's, Heracles would've sat on Eurystheus' throne. The Oracle tells him that he has to submit himself to be the servant of King Eurystheus of Argos.Our hero goes to the Oracle of Delphi to figure out how to atone for the damage he's done.Needless to say, Heracles feels more than a little guilty about killing his kids and all.The Queen of the Gods gets seriously nasty and causes Heracles to go crazy and kill all of his children (Whoa.).(Hera hates Heracles because he's the illegitimate son of her husband, Zeus.) Eventually though, Heracles' archenemy Hera, Queen of the Gods, steps in to ruin his life.Every thing is happy for a while, and Heracles and Megara have a bunch of kids.King Creon of Thebes is more than a little grateful to Heracles, so he gives Heracles his daughter, Megara, as a bride.Our hero leads the charge, obliterating the Minyans and killing the King Erginus himself.Heracles isn't scared at all and raises an army of his own.As you might guess, this makes King Erginus pretty darned mad, and he charges toward Thebes with his whole army behind him.This ticks Heracles off, so when he meets some Minyans on the road he cuts off their ears, noses, and hands.Heracles' hometown of Thebes has had to pay a tribute every year to Erginus, the King of the Minyans.Then Heracles gave the apples to the wise goddess Athena, who took them back to the garden, for it was unholy for them to be in any other place. At that moment Heracles grabbed the apples and disappeared.īack in Mycenae, Heracles gave the apples to Eurystheas, who immediately returned the apples. Atlas consented, laid the apples on the ground, and took back the sky. So Heracles deceived him by telling him to carry the heavens for a moment longer, until he had prepared a base for his head. But when Atlas returned with three golden apples in his hand, he refused to give them to Heracles, saying he would carry the apples to Eurystheas himself. Heracles met the Titan Atlas in the depths of the West, carrying Heaven on his shoulders, and decided to follow Prometheus' advice: He agreed to take the sky from the Titan as long as he would bring him the apples. However, he strongly advised the hero to send the Titan himself to fetch the apples. Gratefully, Prometheus informed the hero that his brother, the Titan Atlas, would show him the way to the garden. On his way to the garden, Heracles passed by Mount Caucasus where he found the Titan Prometheus in chains and freed him. No one was allowed to cut the apples from the trees, so Hera had charged Ladon with guarding the garden - a monstrous serpent with a hundred heads that could speak in different voices. These apples were so precious that they were given by Gaea, Mother Earth, to Hera as a wedding gift. The Hesperides were four maidens who lived in a sacred garden that was full of trees that bore golden apples. Labor: The Apples of the Hesperides The eleventh labor of Heracles was to fetch golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides Greek Heroes» Heracles» Myths about Heracles » 11.
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