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Heracles Adam Robertson

PART A

1. Hera hated Heracles because Zeus and Athene tricked her into nursing him, turning
Heracles into an immortal.
2. Heracles had to perform his labours because they were the penance assigned to him by
King Eurystheus.
3. Heracles’s “death” can be described as a suicide, of sorts. The evil centaur Nessus had
offered Heracles’s wife some magic wool and told her to weave it into a wonderful shirt
for her husband as a token of friendship. When Heracles put on the shirt, it burst into an
undying, intense flame. Before long, his flesh was aflame, but he could not pull the shirt
from his body nor could he die because he was an immortal. Deciding the pain was too
much, Heracles called for a funeral pyre to be lit and he placed himself upon it. After his
mortal body had been burnt up, his soul rose to live among the gods at Mount Olympus.

PART B
a. Strength
 Nemean Lion|(1): Wrestled the great lion and then choked it to dead
 Slaying the Hydra(2): Heracles burid the immortal head under a pile of heavy
rocks.
 Bull at Crete(7): Wrestled the great beast similarly to the lion.
 Slaying Geryon(10): Penetrated all three of Geryon’s bodies with a single arrow.
 Fetching Apples(11): Heracles held the sky up for Atlas while he fetched the
apples.
 Slaying Cerberus(12): Choked the mighty beast to death.

b. Cunning
 Nemean Lion(1): Used the lion’s own claws to flay it, and wore the lion’s skin
like armor.
 Slaying the Hydra(2): Heracles cauterized the wounds so they would not grow
more heads.
 Capturing the Boar(4): By driving the beast into a snow-drift he was able to bind
it and carry it back to Eurystheus.
 Cleaning Up(5): Rather than doing the work himself, Heracles diverted the two
rivers to clean the stables and pasture without even approaching them.
 Flock Removal(6): By scaring the birds into the air, he was able to shoot them
easily.
 The King’s Mares(8): By feeding their master to them, Heraces was able to bring
the horses to Eurythesus without trouble.
 Slaying Geryon(10): Heracles waited until he could shoot all three bodies with a
single arrow.
 Fetching Apples(11): Tricked Atlas, telling him that he was merely “adjusting his
lion-skin into a shoulder-pad” so that Atlas would take back the sky onto his
shoulders.
 Slaying Cerberus(12): Heracles positioned himself so that the invincible lion skin
would protect him from Cerberus’s tail.

c. Cruelty
 (not including killing/capturing wild animals in various tasks)
 The King’s Mares(8): Heracles fed the horses their own master.
 Amazon Visit(9): Heracles tricked Hippolyta into a false love then murdered her
and most of her followers in cold blood.
 Slaying Geryon(10): After Geryon refused to give up his cattle, Heracles killed
him.
 Fetching Apples(11): Heracles tricked Atlas into doing his bidding with the offer
of respite from his burden.

d. Determination
 Slaying the Hydra(2): Heracles fought for hours and hours until he discovered a
way to finish the battle
 Artemis’s Deer(3): Pursued the creature for a full year before catching her.
 Fetching Apples(11): Heracles wandered Europe for a long time in search of the
garden.
 Slaying Cerberus(12): Heracles dared to travel to the underworld and take on the
most horrifying of creatures without any weapons.

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