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King Eurystheus told Hercules he had to bring him the lion with the invulnerable skin that had been terrorizing the hills of Nemea. When Hercules arrived and started to track the lion, he soon found it. After a few failed attempts with his bow and arrow, Hercules knew he had to make a new plan. Blocking off one of the two entrances of the cave, he went at the lion grabbing his neck, and with a great struggle he choked the mighty lion to death. Hercules then used the beast's own claw to skin it to bring to the king and make an indestructible armor for himself.

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For the second labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to kill a Lernean Hydra. From the murky waters of the swamps near a place called Lerna, the Hydra was a monstrous serpent with nine heads, and it attacked with a poisonous venom. Hercules set off to hunt, but he had brought someone along with him: his trusty nephew Iolaus. They arrived to the lair of the Hydra, and Hercules lured the Hydra out by shooting flaming arrows at it. Hercules tried to fight the Hydra, but every time he cut a head two would grow back. Iolaus was able to set a torch on fire, so when Hercules cut a head off Iolaus would burn the stump, thus no be head could grow back. They later returned to King Eurystheus, but he was not impressed because he got help from his nephew Iolaus and the labor was meant for Hercules to be done alone. King Eurystheus did not even count the labor as one of the ten.

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A hind is a female red deer, but this particular doe had golden horns, hooves of bronze, and was scared to the goddess of hunting and the moon, Diana. Therefore, Hercules dared not harm the goddess’ unique pet. After a year and when the doe grew tired of the constant chase, Hercules shot her with an arrow as she was about to cross a stream, put her on his shoulders, and attempted to just scurry away. Soon he was met by Diana and Apollo. The former was about to punish Hercules, but he shared the reason for his action: to satisfy a labor ordered by Eurystheus. Diana then healed her pet’s wound and allowed Hercules to carry the hind alive to Mycenae to complete this third labor.

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The goal was to bring the boar to Eurystheus alive. On the way to find the boar, Hercules stopped to visit his friend, Pholus. Hercules got hungry and his friend cooked meat for him while he ate his meat raw. A little while after, Hercules asked Pholus to open the wine bottle. Pholus refused to open the bottle because it belong to all the Centaurs. Hercules opened the bottle and the rest of the Centaurs smelled the wine. They showed up to Pholus' place very angry and armed with rocks and fir trees. Hercules grabbed sticks from the fireplace and started to throw them at the Centaurs. Pholus ended up getting hit with an arrow in his foot and died on the spot. Hercules buried his friend and continued looking for the boar. He found the huge pig with a bad temper and returned it. Eurystheus was amazed!

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For the fifth labor, Eurystheus commanded the might Hercules to clean up King Augeas' stables in a mere day, and King Augeas owned more cattle than anyone in Greece! In only one day, Hercules boasted he would clean the filthy stables if Augeas would give him a tenth of his cattle. Astonished, Augeas promised that he would.  As a witness, Hercules brought Augeas's own son along to verify task completion. To start, Hercules tore a gaping opening in the wall of the cattle-yard. Next, on the opposite side of the yard, he made another opening in the wall. Then, he dug wide channels to two rivers which flowed nearby. The rivers rushed through the stables, flushing them out, and all the excrement flowed out the hole in the wall on other side of the yard. When King Augeas learned that Eurystheus really ordered the task, he withheld Hercules’ reward money. Moreover, he denied that he had even given his word to pay a reward. Therefore, Hercules took the matter to court and called the son of Augeas to testify. King Augeas’ offspring testified that his father had indeed agreed to give Hercules a sizeable reward, thus the judge ruled that Hercules would have to be paid. As a result, Eurystheus said that this labor did not count, for Hercules was paid for having done the seemingly impossible work.

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Hercules had to drive away an enormous flock of birds which gathered at a lake near the town of Stymphalos.  The goddess Athena came to his aid, providing a pair of bronze krotala, noisemaking clappers similar to castanets. Hercules clashed the krotala loudly, scaring the birds out of the trees, then shot them with his bow and arrow.

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Poseidon was furious with Minos for breaking his promise to sacrifice the bull given to him from the sea. In his anger, the god of the sea made the bull rampage all over Crete and caused Minos' wife Pasiphae to fall in love with the animal. As a result, Pasiphae gave birth to the Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull, the body of a man, and eventually imprisoned in the  Labyrinth. With ease, Hercules wrested the rampaging bull and drove it back to King Eurystheus.

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Labor #8-The Man-Eating Horses of Diomedes

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Labor #8-The Man-Eating Horses of Diomedes

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After the Cretan Bull, Hercules was sent by Eurystheus to get the man-eating mares of Diomedes from the king of a Thracian tribe called the Bistones. He was tasked with taking the mares back to Mycenae. Apollodorus spoke of how Hercules joined forces with a band of volunteers. Hercules with the help of his band captured the horses. A few troops were sent to capture the animals back. To free Hercules in battle he gave Abderos the horses. In honor of the slain Abderos, Hercules founded the city of Abdera. The mares wandered around until they came to Mount Olympus, the lofty home of the gods, where they were eaten by wild beasts. In one version, Hercules tames the horses from his own chariot. In the other, he has to bring back the chariot as well as the horses. The hero took the mares back to Eurystheus who set them free but then killed them.

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Labor #9 - Take the Girdle of Hippolyte 

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Labor #9 - Take the Girdle of Hippolyte 

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For the ninth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the belt of Hippolyte, the queen of the Amazons. At first Hippolyte promised to give the belt to Hercules which would have made the labor easy for him, but Hera disguised herself as one of the Amazon warriors and spread false rumors about him. Hearing the rumors they attacked Hercules, but thinking fast he pulled out his sword and killed Hippolyte and took her belt.

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Geryon, a hybrid monster of Gorgon and Titan lineage, had three heads and three sets of legs all joined at the waist. This monster kept a herd of red cattle guarded by Orthus, Cerberus’ brother. On his trek to this labor, Hercules split one mountain into two, forming the Pillars of Hercules. After clubbing Orthus, the two-headed hound, to death, Hercules was soon attacked by Geryon, but Hercules shot him dead with arrows and escaped with the cattle.

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For the eleventh labor, Eurystheus commanded Hercules to bring him golden apples which belonged to Zeus. These apples were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, and they were guarded  by Ladon, a hundred-headed dragon and by the Hesperides, nymphs who were daughters of Atlas. Hercules didn’t know where the garden was and had many obstacles in order to get there. Hercules captured Nereus the sea-god and got him to tell him the garden's location. Hercules got Atlas to get the apples for him; in exchange he took his place and held up the world on his shoulders. He finished the labor but had to return the apples back to Athena since they belong with the gods and couldn’t stay with Eurystheus.

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The most dangerous labor of all was the twelfth and final one. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to go to the Underworld and kidnap the beast called Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hades!