the 12 labors of hercules
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The 12 Labors of Hercules. Hercules. Son of Zeus Hera made Hercules insane because she was jealous of him He killed his own wife and children As punishment he had to perform 12 labors for King Eurystheus - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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• Hercules • Son of Zeus• Hera made Hercules
insane because she was jealous of him
• He killed his own wife and children
• As punishment he had to perform 12 labors for King Eurystheus
• If he could complete the labors he would regain his place in history and become an immortal himself!
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Labor 1
• Nemean Lion • Hide so tough no arrow could pierce it
• Hercules strangled it with his bare hands
• He skinned the lion and wore its hide as a trophy!
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Labor 2• Lernean Hydra • Snakelike Hydra with
9 heads• If one of the heads
got cut off, 2 would replace it!
• Hercules defeated the creature by having his assistant seal the wounds with a torch after he had cut a head off
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Labor 3
• Capture the Hind • Deer with gold horns• Protected and
watched by the goddess Artemis
• It took Hercules an entire year to track the hind down!
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Labor 4
• The Erymanthian Boar
• Terrorized the people of Mt. Erymanthus
• Hercules was able to defeat it by chasing it into a snowdrift
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Labor 5• The Augean Stables • Over 1000 cows lived
in these stables• The stables had not
been cleaned in 30 years!
• Hercules bent two rivers so that they flowed into the stables, cleaning them out
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Labor 6
• The Stymphalian Bird • Claws and beaks were sharp as swords and feathers flew like darts!
• Using a rattle made by Hephaestus, Hercules scared them from their nest and shot them with arrows
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Labor 7
• The Cretan Bull • A savage bull who could breathe fire!
• Hercules was able to wrestle it to the ground and return it to the king
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Labor 8• Horses of Diomedes • King Diomedes fed
these savage horses on human flesh!
• Hercules killed King Diomedes and fed him to his own horses
• After eating the king, miraculously the horses’ hunger for humans was satisfied
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Labor 9• Hippolyte • Hercules had to bring
back the girdle of the Amazon queen
• The queen welcomed him, but Hera told Hippolyte lies
• In the end Hercules was forced to defeat the Amazons to secure the girdle
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Labor 10
• The Cattle of Geryon • Geryon was a monster with 3 human bodies
• He guarded beautiful red cattle
• Hercules defeated Geryon and returned the cattle to the king
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Labor 11
• The Golden Apples • The apples were guarded by Ladon, a dragon with 100 heads!
• Hercules had to enlist the help of the titan Atlas, who held up the earth, in order to obtain the apples
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Labor 12• Cerberus • The three-headed
guard dog of the realm of Hades!
• Hercules had to defeat the beast without the aide of weapons!
• He was able to do so in order to complete his 12th task!