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Hades with only a bruised ego.

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•Heracles was sent to kill the Stymphalian birds.
•Athena gave Heracle noisemaking  clappers called Krotala forged by an immortal craftsman, Hephaestus, God of the forge.
Stymphalian bird was a carnivores man eating bird, raised by Ares. They had bronzed beak, and sharp shiny metallic feathers, and they would use that to launch at their victims.
• Heracles pulled out the gift that Athena gave him and made really loud noises scaring the birds to take flight into the air.
•Heracles pulled out his bow and arrows, set them on fire and shot at the birds killing 100.
• Brought a dozen to King Eurystheus

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• for the final labor king Eurystheus ordered Hercules to go to the underworld and bring  cerberus with him
• Cerberus was a three headed dog with the tail of a serpent
• Hercules had to face off cerberus with his bare hands
• Hercules was bitten by the servant tail, but he still managed to overtake the beast
• he overpowered the beast and took him to king Eurystheus
• Cerberus is seen as the luckiest competitor of Hercules because he was actually able to return back to

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There was two different versions of this labor, but they both ended the same.
-in one myth, the Nemean Lion would kidnap women to lure warriors in to its cave and kill them. Hercules arrived to the nearby town where a young boy told him that if he killed the lion, they would sacrifice a lion to Zeus. If he failed, the boy would sacrifice himself.
- in the other myth, came to a town called Cleonac and stayed at a poor woman's home. the woman offered to sacrifice an animal, but asked him to wait  30 days.
- if hercules returns with the Lion's skin, they would sacrifice it to Zeus, but if Hercules died trying, the woman would sacrifice herself.
-here is where both myths are the same now:
- Hercules gets to the Lion's lair and tries to shoot it with his arrows, but soon realizes that it wont work because its fur is impenetrable.
-he then devises a plan to trap the lion in one part of its cave.
-hercules then ends up strangling the lion with his bare hands and eventually killing it.
-he then tries to use his knife to cut off the lion's skin, but since that won't work, Athena comes to the rescue and tells him to use the lion's claw to remove the skin, which ends up working.
-in one myth, Hercules comes back with the skin of the lion and the King of the town became fearful of him and banned him form entering the gates of his city anymore.

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1. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Hind of Ceryneia.
2. A Hind is a female red deer & Ceryneia is a town in Greece about 50 miles from Mycenae.
3. It was difficult for Hercules to catch this deer because it had golden horns & hoofs of bronze & was very fast.
4. The deer was also sacred to the goddess of hunting & the moon; Diana or Artemis.
5. Hercules hunted the deer for a year & the deer eventually became weary & Hercules shot the deer by a river.
6. On his way back he was faced with Diana & Apollo. Diana was angry & would have punished Hercules but Hercules told them the truth & she head the deers wound.
7. Hercules brought the deer back to Mycenae alive.
8. This Labor came to be because it was obvious the first 2 labors, dealing w/ physical labour, was not going to a problem for Hercules. Hades & Eurystheus decides to devise a scheme more difficult for Hercules.

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The Lernaean Hydra was raised by Hera to kill Hercules. It had 9 heads, one was immortal and the others were mortal. When he went to chop off the Hydra's head two more would grow back. His nephew Iolaus assisted him with the advise of Athena. He would cauterize the wound after Hercules decapitated the head. When it came to the final head, Hera sent down a crab to distract Hercules but he ended up squashing  it and they killed the Hydra. It wasn't counted as a labour because he had help.

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Horses of Diomedes-
Hercules was requested by  King Eurystheus to go capture the flesh eating horses but he was unaware of their human flesh diet . While on the quest he fought Diomedes while leaving his friend Abderus to hold the horses. While fighting he realized that his friend was getting eaten by the horses, so he killed Diomedes to feed the horses which eventually calmed the horses down. Which in result lead to them being permanently calm and allowed to walk the country side. Other versions say that Eurystheus sent them to Olympus as a sacrifice to Zeus, who refused them and sent wolves and lions to kill them.

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5th Labor: Cleaning the Stables of Augeus

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5th Labor: Cleaning the Stables of Augeus

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1. Eurysthesus ordered Hercules the clean the stables of Augeus in one day

2. Went to King Augeus without mentioning the labor and said he would clean them in one day if he gave him 1/10 of his finest cattle

3. Son of Augeus watched

4. Busted two holes in opposite walls and built to trenches so that the river could flush everything out

5. Once Augeus found out it wasn’t voluntary, he denied Hercules his payment and denied he ever promised

6. Hercules took it to the judge where the son testified that his father promised, so the judge ruled that Hercules must be payed.

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1.     Commanded by Eurystheus to go get the apples from Zeus

2.     Apples were a gift from Hera to her husband Zeus as a wedding gift

3.     Apples were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, guarded by a 100 headed dragon and Laydon and Hesperides (Daughters of Atlas)

4.     Hercules didn’t know where the Garden was

5.     Journeyed through Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Asia

6.     Fought Kyknos, Son of Ares but fight was broken up by a thunderbolt.

7.     Hercules traveled to Illyria where he seized the sea God Nereus who knew the gardens secret location. Nereus tried to escape by shapeshifting but Hercules held on until he got the location.

8.     Then stopped by Anateus (Posideons son) where he challenged him to a wrestling match

9.     But Hercules escaped, killing Busiris, and journeyed on.

10.  Hercules came to the rock on Mount Caucasus where Prometheus was chained. He was bound to the mountain, and every day a monstrous eagle came and ate his liver, pecking away at Prometheus' tortured body. This went on for 30 years until Hercules killed it.

11.  Prometheus told Hercules the secret to getting the apples. He would have to send Atlas after them, instead of going himself.

12.  Atlas hated holding up the sky and the earth so much that he would agree to the task of fetching the apples, in order to pass his burden over to Hercules.

13.  When Atlas returned with the golden apples, he told Hercules he would take them to Eurystheus himself, and asked Hercules to stay there and hold the heavy load for the rest of time.

14.  Hercules didn’t like this so he tricked Prometheus into taking the weight of the world back.

15.  Hercules picked up the apples and quickly ran off, carrying them back, uneventfully, to Eurystheus.

16.  There was one final problem: because they belonged to the gods, the apples could not remain with Eurystheus. After all the trouble Hercules went through to get them, he had to return them to Athena, who took them back to the garden at the northern edge of the world.

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'-Hippolyte was queen of the Amazons, a tribe of female warriors.
-Hercules was tasked to retrieve her belt in order to gift to Eurystheus' daughter.
-The queens belt was a special gift granted to her by Ares, it was made to carry her spear and sword.
-Hercules' friends figured he could not fight the entire Amazonian army alone, so they took up arms and set sail a single ship.
-As they landed, Hippolyte greeted the men and Hercules asked her for her belt. Hippolyte complied.
-Hera disguised herself as an Amazon and convinced the other women that Hercules was trying to steal their queen. So began wearing their armor.
-Hercules saw them taking arms and in a haste, stabbed and killed Hippolyte.
-He quickly grabbed her belt and set sail back to return the belt.