12 Labours Of Hercules

Question 1

Demean Lion

Answer 1

Skin pierced only by its own claws
Hercules strangles/clubs it to death
Wears its hide

Question 2

Lernean hydra

Answer 2

9 headed poisonous serpent
Heads regenerate
Iolaus cauterizes stumps
Buries the immortal 9th head
Tip his arrows with the poisonous venom

Question 3

Cerynaean stag

Answer 3

Golden horns
Chases to Hyperborea for a year

Question 4

Erymenthian boar

Answer 4

Gives accounting lectures
Holds over Eurystheus, who hides in a large jar (pithos)

Question 5

Augean stables

Answer 5

Augeas, king of Elis, has sacred cattle
Hercules cleans stables, diverts river
Founds Olympics (776 bc)
Augeas’ companion, Kopreus

Question 6

Elymphalian birds

Answer 6

Bronze dart-like feathers
Chases them away with bronze clappers

Question 7

Cretan bull

Answer 7

Hercules takes to Tiryns
Releases to marathon

Question 8

Mares of Diomedes

Answer 8

Flesh eaters in Thrace
Feeds Diomedes to them

Question 9

Amazon’s girdle

Answer 9

Hippolyta, Queen of the amazons

Question 10

Geryon’s cattle

Answer 10

Geryon has 3 bodies
Lives in west, end of earth (Spain)
Land and daughter = Erytheia (red)
Orthus, 2 headed dog
Sets up “pillars of Hercules”
Rides back in Helios’ cup

Question 11

Apples of the Hesperides

Answer 11

In west, end of earth (Algeria)
Tricks atlas

Question 12

Cerberus

Answer 12

3 headed dog of hades
Captures from hades
Frees Theseus from hades