Heracles Flashcards

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Who were the parents of Heracles?

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Alcmene and Zeus

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Who was the son of Alcmene?

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Heracles

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Who was the husband of Alcmene?

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Amphitryon

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Who was the father of Amphitriyon?

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Alcaeus

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What hero, the descendants of Perseus…

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Heracles

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Who was the father of Alcaeus?

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Perseus

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Who killed Electryon?

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Amphitryon

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Who is the brother of Electryon?

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Sthenelus

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Who was the father of Alcmene?

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Electryon

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Where did Alcmene and Amphitryon flee to?

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Thebes

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Who welcomed Amphitryon and Alcmene to thebes?

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Creon

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Alcmene refused to lie with Amphitryon until he did what?

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avenged the murder of her brothers by taphian pirates

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Who told Alcmene that she had slept with Zeus?

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Teiresias

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What did Zeus boast to the other gods before heracles was born?

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That on that day a son of his lineage would be born and rule over all the land

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Who made Zeus swear on his prophecy about his son?

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Hera

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Where was Heracles born?

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Thebes

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What was the origional name of Heracles?

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Alcaeus

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Who was Heracles’s twin?

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Iphicles

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Who persuaded the unsuspecting Hera to suckle Heracles?

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Athena

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Who unsuspectingly suckled heracles?

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Hera

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Who exposed Heracles for fear of Hera’s wrath?

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Alcmene

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Who put Heracles on the sleeping Hera’s breast?

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Zeus

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The spilled milk from who suckling whom became the milky way?

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Hera suckling Heracles

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What did Heracles do to the snakes in his crib?

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strangled them

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Who sent the snakes to Heracles's crib?
Either Hera or Amphitryon
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Who taught heracles how to drive a chariot?
Amphitryon
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Who taught Heracles how to wrestle?
Autolycus
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Who taught heracles archery?
Eurytus
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Who taught heracles fencing?
Castor
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Who taught heracles music?
Linus
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Who was the brother of Orpheus?
Linus
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What was Heracles's first adventure?
to pursue a lion which had been roaming mount cithaeron and eating the flocks of Amphitryon and Thespius
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Who was the king of Thespiae during heracles's time?
Thespius
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Who entertained Heracles for 50 nights with his 50 daughters?
Thespius
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Who is alternatively said to have killed the lion roaming mount cithaeron?
Alcathous
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On his way home from mount cithaeron, heracles found heralds sent by whom and from where?
By Erginus from Orchomenus
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What did heracles do to the heralds?
cut off their ears and noses and sent them back to orchomenus
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Who attacked Thebes because of Heracles?
Erginus
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Who burnt down the palace and took the city of Orchomenus?
Heracles
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Who did Heracles first marry?
Megara (wife of Heracles)
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Who purified Heracles for killing Megara and his children?
Thespius or Nausithous and Macris
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What naiad did Heracles lay with on Drepane?
Melite
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Who was the son of Heracles and Melite?
Hyllus
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Who told Heracles that he must perform labors for eurystheus?
The oracle at delphi
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What was Heracles first labor?
Kill the nemean Lion
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Who were the parents of the nemean lion?
Echidna and Orthus or Typhon
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On his way to nemea, who did heracles stay with in Cleonae?
Molorchus
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Where did Heracles stay on his way to nemea?
in cleonae
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When molorchus offered a sacrifice to him, what did Heracles tell him?
To wait thirty days and if he doesn't return sacrifice to him as a hero and if he does then sacrifice to Zeus as a savior
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How did Heracles kill the nemean lion?
He blocked one end of its cave and walked in and strangled it
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What creature, invulnerable to weapons...
nemean lion
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When Heracles returned to Tiryns after killing the nemean lion, what did Eurystheus order?
for his trophies to be displayed outside the city gates
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What did Eurystheus do when Heracles returned from the nemean lion?
He hid in a bronze storage jar
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What herald gave heracles tasks from eurystheus?
Copreus
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What was the second labor of heracles?
Killing the Learnean Hydra
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What spring did the hydra live near?
The amymone spring
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Who did the hydra live with?
a crab
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Who helped Heracles with his second labor?
Iolaus
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Who was Heracles's charioteer?
Iolaus
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Who was the son of Iphicles?
Iolaus
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Why didn’t Eurystheus accept Heracles second labor?
He had help completing the task
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Whose blood covered Heracles's arrows?
The hydras
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What was heracles's third labor?
to capture the cerynitian hind
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Who was the cerynitian hind sacred to?
Artemis
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How long did Heracles spend chasing the Cerynitian hind?
a year
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How long did Heracles's third labor take?
a year
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Where did Heracles finally capture the cerynitian hind?
By the river ladon
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How did Heracles's get Artemis to let him take the deer?
he blamed it on Eurystheus
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What was Heracles's fourth labor?
Capture the Erymanthian boar
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What country did the Erymanthion boar ravage?
Psophis
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On his way past Mount Pholoe going to get the erymanthion boar, who did Heracles stop with?
the centaur Pholus
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Who was the son of Silenus?
Pholus the centaur
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What did Pholus attempt to serve Heracles?
wine
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What happened when Pholus tried to serve Heracles wine?
the other centaurs smelled it and going mad tried to steal it
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Where was the home of the centaurs?
Mount Malea
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Who dropped an arrow on his foot and died?
Pholus or Chiron
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Who took on Chiron's burden of immortality?
Prometheus
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What did Heracles trap the erymanthion boar in?
snow
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Between what labors did Heracles adventure with the Argonauts?
the fourth and fifth labors
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Who was almost made captain of the Argonauts?
Heracles
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What complaint did the speaking beam on the argo say about Heracles?
he was too heavy
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During the war with the dryopes,, what king did heracles kill?
King Theiodamas
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Who accompanied Heracles on the argo?
Hylas
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Who told Heracles what had happened to Hylas?
Polyphemus
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Who insisted that they leave Heracles, Hylas, and Polyphemus behind?
Zetes and Calais
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Who did Heracles kill on Tenos for their part in his abandonment?
zetes and Calais
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Whose graves was their a stone over which swayed in the breath of the dead men's father?
zetes and calais
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What was the fifth labor of Heracles?
to clean the augeian stables cute
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What king of Elis owned the Aegean stables?
Augeias
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What did Heracles demand as payment for cleaning the augeian stables?
one tenth of the cattle
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Who did Heracles make witness his agreement with Augeias?
Phyleus
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Which two rivers did Heracles divert?
The alpheius and Peneius rivers
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Where was phyleus exiled to?
Dulichium
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When in olenus, who entertained Heracles?
King Dexamenus
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In exchange for being entertained by Dexamenus, Heracles killed whom?
The centaur Eurytion
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Why did Heracles kill the centaur eurytion?
he was about to marry Dexamenus's daughter mnesimache against her will
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What two labors did Eurystheus not count?
The second and fifth
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Why didn't Eurystheus count heracles's fifth labor?
he was going to get paid
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What was heracles's sixth labor?
to chase away the stymphalian birds
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How did heracles chase away the stymphalian birds?
he used a rattle or castanets to scare them and then shot them
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What was heracles's seventh labor?
capture the cretan bull
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What was the first labor that heracles had to leave the peloponnesus for?
the seventh labor
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Where did the cretan bull go next?
Marathon
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Who sent Androgeus to capture the marathonian bull?
King Aegeus
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Who did King Aegeus send to capture the marathonian bull?
Androgeus
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Who killed the marathonian bull?
Theseus
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What was heracles's eigth labor?
fetch the mares of the diomedes
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What did the mares of Diomedes eat?
human flesh
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Who was Diomedes the king of?
the bistones
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Who entertained Heracles in Thessaly?
Admetus
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What was Admetus the king of?
Pherae
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Who did Heracles wrestle for Admetus?
Thanatos
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Who did Heracles leave the mares of Diomedes with?
Abderus
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How did Heracles kill Diomedes?
Fed him to his own mares
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What was Heracles's ninth labor?
Girdle of Hippolyta
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What daughter of Eurystheus...
Admete
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Who wanted the belt of Hippolyte?
Admete
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Who are the parents of Hippolyte?
Ares and Otera
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What river do the amazons live on?
Thermodon river
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What two men did Heracles take with him to fight the amazons?
Theseus and Telamon
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On their way to fight the amazons, where did Heracles and his crew stop?
Paros
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Sons of what man ruled Paros?
Minos
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Alcaeus and Sthenelus were sons of what man?
Androgeus
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What two hostages did Heracles take from Paros?
Alcaeus and Sthenelus
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Where did Heracles go after Paros?
Mysia
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Who entertained Heracles and his crew at Mysia?
Lycus, king of the mariandyni
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What brother of amycus did Heracles kill?
Mygdon
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After mysia, where did Heracles go?
Themiscyra
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Who posed as an amazon to make the others believe Heracles kidnapped Hippolyte?
Hera
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Who killed Hippolyte?
Heracles
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What daughter of Laomedon did Heracles save?
Hesione
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What king of Aenus entertained Heracles?
King Poltys
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What brother of Poltys did Heracles shoot?
Sarpedon
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When Heracles and his crew reached torone on the peninsula of Sithonia, who challenged heracles to a wrestling match?
Polygonus and Telegonus
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What sons of Proteus challanged Heracles to wrestle?
Polygonus and Telegonus
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Who did Polygonus and Telegonus challenge to wrestle?
Heracles
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What was Heracles's tenth labor?
Cattle of Geryon
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What king of Eurytheia...
Geryon
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Who were the parents of Geryon?
Callirrhoe and Chrysoar
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Who was the herdsman of Geryon?
Eurytion
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Who were the parents of Orthus?
Typhon and echidna
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What son of Callirrhoe and Chrysaor...
Geryon
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Where did Heracles set up his pillars?
The strait of Gibraltar
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Wearied by the suns heat, who ...
Heracles
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Who did Heracles shoot at on his way to the cattle of geryon?
Helius
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How did Heracles get to his tenth labor?
By riding a golden cup
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What did Helius give to Heracles?
a golden cup
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What island of Geryon...
Erytheia
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What mountain did Heracles wait on until Orthus rushed at him?
Mount Abas
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How did Orthus die?
Heracles hit him with his club
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Who told Geryon what heracles had done?
Menoetes
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Who was pasturing Hades cattle?
Menoetes
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At what river did Heracles shoot Geryon?
Anthemus
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What sons of Pos tried to steal the cattle of Geryon from Heracles while he was in Liguria
Ialebion and Dercynus
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Ialebion and Dercynus tred to steal Heracles cattle while he where?
Liguria
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Who did Heracles kill in Liguria?
Ialebion and Dercynus
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Why was Heracles attacked by the Ligurians?
he killed Ialebion and Dercynus
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How did Heracles defeat the Ligurians?
Zeus caused a shower of stones to fall and Heracles threw stones at them
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Who saved Heracles from the Ligurians?
Zeus
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Who fell to his knees wounded and would have died if it weren't for Zeus's intervention?
Heracles
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What people were killed when Zeus made stones rain?
the ligurians
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What giant stole some of Heracles's cattle?
Cacus
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Who dragged the cattle of Geryon by their tails?
Cacus
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Why did Heracles lay with Echidna?
She had some of his mares and he wanted them back
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How many sons did Heracles have with Echidna?
three
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What did Heracles give echidna?
a bow
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What did Heracles tell Echidna to do with her sons?
Whichever one could draw his bow should become king of her land and the other two should be sent away
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Which of Echidna's sons could draw heracles's bow?
Scythes
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Name the three sons of Heracles and Echidna
Scythes, Gelonus, and Agathyrsus
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Which of Echidna's sons were exiled?
Agathyrsus and Gelonus
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In whose keeping did Heracles leave the cattle of Geryon while he went to get the finest bull that escaped?
Hephaestus's
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What island did the finest of Geryon's bulls swim to in heracles's care?
Sicily
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Who did Heracles have to get back the finest of Geryon's cattle from?
Eryx
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What man did heracles wrestle to get back a bull from?
Eryx
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Who did Heracles kill in either a boxing or wrestling match?
Eryx
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What was heracles's eleventh labor?
apples of the hesperides
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Who gave hera golden apples as a wedding gift?
Gaea
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What snake / dragon guarded the apples of the hesperides?
Ladon
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How many heads does Ladon have?
100
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Where did Heracles go to find out the location of nereus?
The river eridanus
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Daughters of what two people were the nymphs who knew the location of nereus?
Daughters of zeus and themis
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What did the daughters of Zeus and Themis tell Heracles?
The location of the sleeping nereus
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Who did Heracles capture and hold tightly despite the many transformations the god made?
Nereus
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Who told Heracles the location of the apples of the hesperides?
Nereus
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Who shot the eagle that tortured Prometheus?
Heracles
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Who freed Prometheus from his bounds?
Heracles
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At what mountains did Heracles shoot the eagle that tormented Prometheus?
The caucasus mountains
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Who told Heracles that he should send atlas to fetch the apples?
Prometheus
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Passing through Arabia, what son of Tithonus did Heracles kill?
King Emathion
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Who were the parents of king busiris?
Posiedon and Lysianassa
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What did the oracle tell king Busiris would solve the famine problem?
He needed to sacrifice a person every year to zeus
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Who was the first person King busiris sacrificed to Zeus?
the seer who told him the news
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After sacrificing the seer, what people did King Busiris choose to sacrifice?
Strangers to the land
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Who killed king Busiris?
Heracles
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What son of King busiris did Heracles kill?
Amphidamas
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What two men did heracles kill after breaking his chains on an altar for sacrifice?
King busiris and his son amphidamas
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What king did Heracles kill with a bear hug?
Antaeus
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What son of Gaea did Heracles wrestle?
Antaeus
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What was strange about Antaeus?
He couldn't die so long as he was touching the earth
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How did Heracles kill Antaeus?
He lifted him off the ground and crushed him to death with a bear hug
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How did Heracles get the apples of hesperides?
He tricked atlas into getting them
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How did Heracles trick Atlas into taking the weight of the sky back?
He asked if atlas could hold the sky while Heracles put a pad on his head
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Who did Heracles give the apples to after Eurystheus?
Athena
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What was Heracles's 12th labor?
to capture cerberus
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To prepare for his twelth labor where did Heracles go?
Eleusis
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Why did Heracles go to Eleusis?
To be initiated into the elusinian mysteries
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Who purified Heracles of his murder of the centaurs?
Eumolpus
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Who adopted Heracles so that he could be initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries?
Pylius
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What entrance of the underworld did Heracles use to fetch cerberus?
Taenarum
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Who guided Heracles into the underworld?
Hermes
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What phantom did Heracles draw his sword at in the underworld?
Medusa
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Who did Heracles save from the chairs of forgetfulness?
Theseus
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What happened when Heracles tried to save peirithous?
The earth quaked
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Who did Heracles remove the boulder from in the underworld?
Ascalaphus
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Feeling bad for the thirsty shades in the underworld, what did Heracles do?
Killed one of Hades's cattle for them to drink the blood of
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Who did Heracles wrestle and break the ribs of in the underworld?
Menoetes
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Who did Heracles almost kill until Persephone begged him to stop?
menoetes
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Who begged Heracles to stop wrestling Menoetes?
Persephone
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In one version, Hades allowed Heracles to take Cerberus as long as he did it without what?
Weapons
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In one version, Heracles fought with Hades until he wounded him severely and Hades had to go to Olympus where whom treated him?
Paeon
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What man was the father of Iole?
Eurytus
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Who was the daughter of eurytus?
Iole
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Where was Eurytus king?
Oechalia
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Eurytus was willing to give his daughter to anyone who could do what?
Beat him and his sons in an archery contest
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Despite the please of what man did Eurytus refuse to give his daughter to Heracles?
Iphitus
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What son of Eurytus...
Iphitus
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Why did Eurytus refuse to give Iole to Heracles?
because he recalled that Heracles had killed his children
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Who did Eurytus think stole his mares?
Heracles
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Who did Heracles entertain at Tiryns until he threw him off a roof?
Iphitus
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What happened to Iphitus?
Heracles threw him off a roof
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How was Heracles punished for his murder of Iphitus?
he had a terrible disease
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Who did Heracles ask to purify him of his murder of Iphitus?
Neleus
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Who refused to purify Heracles of his murder of Iphitus because he was the ally of Eurytus?
Neleus
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Who purified Heracles for his murder of Iphitus?
Deiphobus
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Where did Deiphobus purify Heracles?
Amyclae
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What was the name of the pythia who refused to speak to Heracles?
Xenocleia
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When Xenocleia, the pythia, refused to speak to him, what did Heracles do?
stole her tripod and threatened to destroy delphi and make his own oracle
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When Heracles threatened to make his own oracle, what god tried to stop him?
Apollo
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When Heracles threatened to make his own oracle and apollo tried to stop him, who ended their fight?
Zeus
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How did Zeus end the fight between Heracles and Apollo over the oracle?
he flung a thunderbolt between them
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What did the pythia tell Heracles after he fought with Apollo?
that he would be cured of diseas if he sold himself into slavery for three years and gave the price to Iphitus's sons
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Who was Heracles sold to?
Omphale
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What daughter of iardanes...
Omphale
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What queen of Lydia was the wife of Tmolus?
Omphale
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Where did Heracles capture the cercopes?
Ephesus
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Who did Xenodice and Heracles kill together in Aulis?
Syleus
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What did Syleus do with passerbys?
force them to till his vineyard
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What daughter of Syleus helped Heracles kill her father?
Xenodice
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What did Heracles use to kill Syleus?
Syleus's hoe
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Heracles destroyed the city of what people who had been attacking Omphale's land for a long time?
the itoni
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Near what river did Heracles kill a large snake?
The sagaris river
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Who was the son of Heracles and Omphale?
Lamus
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Who wore a dress while in servitude?
Heracles
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After serving Omphale, who did Heracles bury?
Icarus
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What island had Icarus's body washed up on?
Doliche
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On his way to avenge himself from Laomedon, who was Heracles's chief Lieutenant?
Telamon
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How many ships did heracles take to sail to Troy?
18
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Who did Heracles leave to guard his ships at troy?
Oicles
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Who managed to breech the walls of Troy during Heracles's attack?
Telamon
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Who said, "I am building an altar to Heracles, the Glorius Victor"?
Telamon
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Who killed Laomedon?
Heracles
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Heracles killed all of Laomedon's sons except for whom?
Podarces
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Heracles allowed Hesione to choose one captive to free, who did she choose?
Her brother, Podarces
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After Laomedon, who became king of Troy?
Priam
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Who did Heracles give Hesione to?
Telamon
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Who was the son of Telamon and Hesione?
Teucer
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Who was the son of Telamon and Eeriboea?
Ajax the greater
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Who prayed to Zeus that Telamon would have a worthy son?
Heracles
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On their way home from troy, heracles and his men were driven to the island Cos by whom?
Hera
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On their way home from troy, heracles and his men were driven where by Hera?
the island Cos
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After what event did Zeus hang Hera by her wrists from the heights of Olympus with anvils attached to her feet?
after she sent winds to push heracles and his men to the island cos when returning from troy
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What did Zeus do to hera after she sent winds to push heracles to Cos?
He hung her by her wrists from mount olympus with anvils attached to her feet
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At the island cos, what did the Coans to do heracles and his men?
tried to drive them away with stones
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On the island Cos, who did Heracles kill?
King Eurypylus
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Who killed King Eurypylus of Cos?
Heracles
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Who were the parents of King Eurypylus?
Pos and Astypalaea
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Who wounded Heracles on Cos?
Chalcodon
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Who saved Heracles from Calcodon on Cos?
Zeus
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What did an oracle predict about the war with the giants?
the giants could not be defeated without a mortal's help
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After destroying Cos, who appeared to Heracles and led him to the volcanic plains of Phlegra?
Athena
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After destroying Cos, Athena appeared to Heracles and led him where?
to the volcanic plains of Phlegra
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Who shot Ephialtes in the right eye?
Heracles
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Who shot Alcyoneus and dragged him to Pallene where he died?
Heracles
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Who did heracles shoot and drag to Pallene?
Alcyoneus
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After helping the gods fight the giants, what king did Heracles attempt to exact revenge on?
King Augeias
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Eurystheus exiled Heracles from Tiryns on what pretext?
That Heracles was plotting to overthrow the government
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After being exiled from Tiryns, where did Heracles make his home?
Pheneus
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Who helped Augieas against Heracles?
The moliones
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Who did Heracles shoot on their way to the Isthmian games?
The moliones
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Who did Heracles place on the throne of Elis after his father, Augieas was killed?
Phyleus
290
What son of Augeias was placed on the throne after Augeias died?
Phyleus
291
Who placed Phyleus on the thrown of elis?
Heracles
292
What games did Heracles found?
The olympic games
293
Who killed Neleus and eleven of his sons?
Heracles
294
Why did heracles kill Neleus and eleven of his sons?
Because he refused to purify Heracles for the murder of Iphitus
295
How did Periclymenus die?
Heracles shot him while he was in the form of an eagle
296
Which of Neleus's sons survived?
Nestor
297
Who usurped the rule of sparta after driving out his brother Tyndareus?
Hippocoon
298
Why was heracles mad at Hippocoon?
He refused to purify him and his sons had killed Heracles's young cousin Oeonus
299
Why did Hippocoon's sons kill Oeonus?
Oeonus had thrown a stone at their dog
300
Who was murdered for throwing a stone at a dog?
Oeonus
301
Before attacking sparta, who did Heracles seek help from?
Cepheus, king of Tegea
302
Why was Cepheus reluctant to leave Tegea to go with Heracles to attack sparta?
he was worried that while he was away, enemies might take tegea
303
Who was the daughter of Cepheus?
Sterope
304
What did Heracles give Sterope?
a lock of Medusa's hair
305
Who gave Heracles a lock of Medusa's hair?
Athena
306
Who gave Sterope a lock of Medusa's hair?
heracles
307
What did Heracles tell Sterope to do with Medusa's hair?
if the city was beseiged she shoudl hold up the lock of hair three times on the city wall while averting her eyes
308
What sister of Cepheus did heracles seduce?
Auge
309
Who was the son of Heracles and Auge?
Telephus
310
Who killed Hippocoon and all of his sons?
Heracles
311
Where did Iphicles die?
Sparta
312
Who cured the wound Heracles had gotten while fighting hippocoon in sparta?
Asclepius
313
Who restored Tyndareus to power?
Heracles
314
After killing Hippocoon, who did Heracles go to live with?
King Oeneus
315
Who rivaled Heracles for the hand of Deianeira?
Achelous
316
Who wrestled Achelous and broke off one of his horns?
Heracles
317
What daughter of Oeneus...
Deianeira
318
What centaur did Heracles kill when he tried to carry Deianeira off?
Nessus
319
Who was heracles's second wife?
Deianeira
320
How did Heracles repay king oeneus for Deianeira?
He led the calydonians against the thesprotians
321
What daughter of Phylas did Heracles seduce?
Astyoche
322
Who was the son of Heracles and Astyoche?
Tlepolemus
323
Who introduced the poplar tree to the Peloponnesus?
Heracles
324
In calydon, either Eunomus or Cyathus annoyed Heracles and so Heracles did what?
gave him a rap on his knuckles which killed him
325
Where did Heracles and Deianeira go after calydon?
Trachis
326
What river did Nessus ferry Deianeira accross?
evenus
327
Who shot the centaur Nessus?
Heracles
328
Why did Heracles shoot the centaur Nessus?
He tried to rape Deianeira
329
What did Nessus tell Deianeira?
to take his blood as a love charm
330
Why was Nessus's blood poisoned?
Because of the hydra's blood on heracles's arrows
331
Who drove the Dryopes from Doris?
Heracles
332
What dryopian king did Heracles kill?
Laogoras
333
What son of Ares and Pelopia challenged Heracles to a single combat?
Cycnus
334
Who killed Cycnus and injured Ares?
Heracles
335
Who aided Cycnus against Heracles?
Ares
336
Who advised Heracles not to pursue Ares after fighting Cycnus?
Athena
337
Where did Heracles leave Deianeira when he went to fight Eurytus?
Trachis
338
Where did Heracles build an altar to Zeus?
cape cenaeum
339
What herald did Heracles send to Trachis to fetch a fresh tunic?
Lichas
340
Deianeira felt threatened by what concubine of Heracles which is why she smeared the love charm on Heracles's tunic?
Iole
341
Who brought Heracles the tunic that killed him?
Lichas
342
Who poisoned Heracles's tunic?
Deianeira
343
Who did Heracles kill while he was dying?
Lichas
344
Who killed herself because of Heracles's death?
Deianeira
345
Who accompanied Heracles to the top of Mount Oeta as he was dying?
Hyllus
346
Who built Heracles's funeral pyre?
Hyllus
347
Who lit Heracles's funeral pyre?
Poeas or philoctetes
348
What did Heracles give philoctestes?
His bow and arrows
349
Who did Heracles marry on Olympus?
hebe
350
Who was Heracles's third wife?
Hebe
351
Who did Heracles persuade Hebe to renew the youth of?
Iolaus
352
Who tried to defend Heracles's children from Eurystheus?
Iolaus
353
Who appeared to Philoctetes to persuade him to go to the trojan war?
Heracles
354
What son of Alcaeus...
Amphytrion
355
Who accidentally killed his father-in-law...
Amphytrion
356
What father-in-law of Amphytrion...
Electryon
357
What brother of Electryon...
Sthenelus
358
Who refused to lie with her husband until he avenged...
Alcmene
359
Murdered by Taphian pirates, what woman’s brothers...
Alcmene
360
Who successfully led an expedition against the Taphian islands...
Amphytrion
361
Who was chagrined at the rather perfunctory reception he met...
Amphytrion
362
Who was surprised when she was regaled with the same tales...
Alcmene
363
Whose innocent, if premature abandonment...
Alcmene
364
Who patiently waited to see whether his wife would bear a god’s...
Amphytrion
365
Who, pretending not to believe her husband...
Hera
366
The throne that should have belonged to Amphytrion was usurped...
Sthenelus harder round Eurystheus easier
367
The rule of Tiryns and Mycenae...
Eurystheus
368
Who may have died in childbirth if one of her attendants...
Alcmene
369
What attendant of Alcmene...
Galanthus
370
Who sat with her legs and fingers tightly crossed...
Eleithyia
371
Who cried joyfully at the birth of her mistress’s child...
Galanthis
372
According to Diodorus Siculus, who, fearing the anger of Hera, exposed...
Alcmene
373
Who was persuaded to rear her own child by Athena...
Alcmene
374
What baby, who Zeus put to the sleeping Hera’s breast...
Heracles
375
Whose question was answered in a spectacular manner when the son of his wife...
Amphitryon
376
No more than 8 or ten months old, what two brothers...
Iphicles and Heracles
377
What man taught his stepson to drive the chariot...
Amphitryon
378
What wily thief taught Heracles...
Autolycus
379
What archer king of Oechalia...
Eurytus
380
Although he seems to have relied very little on the use of his sword, what man was taught...
Heracles
381
Whose lyre lessons ended in disaster...
Heracles
382
What brother of Orpheus...
Linus
383
When he struck his pupil for some unrecorded offense, what...
Linus
384
Because he argued self-defense, what man was acquitted of a charge of murder...
Heracles
385
At least six feet tall by seventeen...
Heracles
386
Who, so expert with both bow and spear...
Heracles
387
Who could rely on craft in wrestling as well as on his own prodigious strength...
Heracles
388
A lion that had been roaming Mount Cithaeron and eating the flocks...
Heracles
389
The flocks of Thespius and Amphitryon...
Cithaeronian lion
390
What king’s interest in the prowess of his young neighbor...
Thespius
391
Who entertained young Heracles for fifty nights...
Thespius
392
Who, a little befuddled by wine, was unaware of the traffic in his bedroom...
Heracles
393
Whose daughter was condemned to be a virgin priestess in the temple of Heracles...
Thespius
394
A far more formidable beast than the one that lived on Cithaeron...
Nemean Lion
395
While returning from Mount Cithaeron, Heracles...
Erginus
396
What king of Orchomenus...
Erginus
397
The ears and noses of what man’s heralds...
Erginus
398
Whose heralds, sent back to Orchomenus...
Erginus
399
What city, whose armor had been taken by the Orchomenians...
Thebes
400
Who offered to give up Heracles...
Creon
401
Who, not content with the routing of Orchomenus...
Heracles
402
Although whether he was killed or subdued is disputed, what man’s kingdom was forced to pay...
Erginus
403
What city pays double tribute to Thebes...
Orchomenus
404
What woman, who many assume was given to Heracles as a reward...
Megara
405
What Euboean man may have attempted to usurp the throne of Heracles...
Lycus
406
Who, on the point of executing Heracles’s wife Megara and their children...
Lycus
407
His children, two children of his nephew...
Heracles
408
Who exiled himself from Thebes...
Heracles / maybe Oedipus
409
What man, who purified Heracles of the murder of his children...
Thespius
410
Though most claim King Thespius purified him...
Nausithous and Macris
411
Who, claimed by some as the first to call Alcaeus Heracles...
Pythia
412
What three sons of Heracles...
Therimachus, Creontiades, and Deicoon
413
What man, who may have been a son of the nymph Melite...
hyllus
414
Either Thespius or Nausithous and Macris purified Heracles for the murder...
Therimachus, Creontiades, Deicoon
415
What weakling, who occupied the throne which would have been Heracles’s own...
Eurystheus
416
Either one of the monstrous offspring of Orthus and Echidna or suckled by the moon goddess...
Nemean Lion
417
On his way to Nemea...
Molorchus
418
Cyprus or Cythera...
Aphrodite
419
At the hut of what day laborer...
Molorchus
420
What man, who had evidently never encountered such a formidable man as Heracles...
Molorchus
421
Who, told to wait for 30 days for the return of Heracles...
Molorchus
422
A two-mouthed cave was the lair of what creature...
Nemean Lion
423
Who blocked off one end of a cave and strode in, urarmed, at the other mouth...
Heracles
424
Who looked up from his preparations for a hero sacrifice...
Molorchus
425
Who, on the thirteenth day of waiting...
MolorchusWho dutifully switched to the more elaborate rites due to a god...
426
Because of his terror, Eurystheus sent all orders by what...
Copreus
426
Who dutifully switched to the more elaborate rites due to a god...
molorchus
426
Hiding in a bronze storage jar set in the earth...
Eurystheus
427
What herald of Eurystheus...
Copreus
427
What half-sister of the Nemean lion...
Hydra
428
Who, nourished by Hera herself out of hatred for Heracles...
Hydra
429
Near the spring Amymone, what monster...
Hydra
430
Who lived in company with its devoted friend near the spring...
Hydra
431
What monster, driven into the open with a flight of burning arrows...
Hydra
432
What creature, whose middle head...
Hydra
432
Who bellowed for help to his nephew...
Heracles
432
What charioteer of Heracles...
Iolaus
432
What son of Iphicles...
Iolaus / Protestalius
432
Who brought burning brands to assist...
Iolaus
433
Buried beneath a stone beside the road that led from Lerna to Elaeus...
Hydra
433
The road that led from Lerna to Elaeus...
Hydra
433
What golden-horned deer...
Cerynitian Hind
433
What creature roamed around Oenoe...
Cerynitian Hind
434
In order to capture it alive, Heracles pursued...
Cerynitian Hind
435
After crossing Mount Artemisius, beside the river Ladon, Heracles....
Cerynitian Hind
436
Who, while carrying a deer on his shoulder through Arcadia...
Heracles
437
What beast, which ravaged the country about Psophis...
Erymanthian Boar
438
What son of of Seilenus...
Pholus
439
Though some say the wine belonged to all the Centaurs...
probably pholus
440
What group, driven from the Peloponnesus to their native Magnesia...
Centaurs
441
Though Heracles drove most of the centaurs back to their home on Malea...
Eurytion / Nessus / Poseidon
442
Who managed to escape to the river Evenus...
Nessus
443
What centaur lived just long enough to regret his guest’s assistance...
Pholus
444
Who, while examining one of Heracles’ arrows after the battle...
Pholus
445
Because he wanted to die, some say Cheiron gave his immortality...
Prometheus
446
During what labor had Heracles heard that Jason was...
Erymanthian boar
447
What man, hearing that Jason was gathering the bravest men of Greece...
Heracles
448
Because he couldn’t bear to be left out, what man postponed...
Heracles
449
Though some say he got no farther than Aphetae...
Heracles
450
During Heracles’s war with the Dryopes, what king...
Theiodamas
451
What son of Theiodamas...
Hylas
452
Who, left on Mt. Myrtium...
Asclepius
453
Who noted the great beauty of his victim Theiodamas’s son...
Heracles
454
Nearly grown to manhood, what son of Theiodamas...
Hylas
455
When the Argo landed in Mysia, what squire...
Hylas
456
While Heracles cut himself a new oar...
Hylas
457
While in Mysia, who sent his squire...
Hylas
458
Hearing his cry but unable to find him, what fellow argonaut of Hylas...
Polyphemus
459
Heracles went roaming through the woods of Mysia, wild...
Hylas
460
At the insistence of what two men did the Argonaut...
Zeetes and Calais
461
For many centuries the citizens of what city, founded by Polyphemus...
Cius
462
Who did Heracles later meet on the island of Tenos...
Zeetes and Calias
463
Stones, one of which swayed in the breath of the north wind...
Zeetes and Calias
464
Perhaps angry at Heracles’s temporary defection...
Augeian stables
465
The dung of whose cattle, deposited so thickly on his land...
Augeias
466
Who demanded 1/10 of the cattle...
Heracles
467
What son of Augeias...
Phyleus
468
Though the literal-minded traveler Pausanias insists the river must have in fact been the Menius...
Alpheius and Penius
469
As Heracles had anticipated, what man refused to honor his contract...
Augeias
470
Claiming that it had been the laborer’s duty to perform the work without pay...
Augieas
471
What man fled to Dulichium...
Phyleus
472
Leaving Elis, Heracles for some reason stopped at Olenus, where what centaur...
Eurytion
473
Leaving Elis, Heracles for some reason stopped at Olenus, where what King...
Dexamenus
474
What daughter of Dexamenus...
Mnesimache
475
For what labor did Heracles find himself doubly repaid for his cleverness...
Augeian Stables
476
On the grounds that Heracles had undertaken it for hire...
Augeian Stables
477
What animals which, according to Apollodorus, were ordinary birds that had taken refuge...
Stymphalian Birds
478
Either a rattle or a pair of bronze castanets...
Stmphalian birds
479
Sometimes harmless birds, sometimes man-eating, other times feather-shooting...
Stymphalian birds
480
Perhaps because he hoped expeditions into foreign territories would prove more dangerous...
Cretan bull
481
After wandering about the Peloponnesus, what animal reached Athens...
Cretan bull
482
Who, sent by Aegeus to capture the Cretan Bull...
Androgeus
483
What task, which Androgeus attempted with disastrous results...
Marathonian bull
484
While on his way to Thrace, Heracles was entertained...
Admetus
485
Who, in order that his guest’s pleasure should not be lessened...
Admetus
486
Who passed through Thessaly on his way to Thrace...
Heracles
487
Embarrassed at his own seeming callousness, Heracles rushed to what...
Alcestis
488
Who ambushed Thanatos...
heracles
489
Who left the mares of Diomedes...
Heracles
490
When the Bistones came in pursuit...
probably abderus
491
Who returned to the shore to find that the mares...
abderus
492
What group of animals were later eaten by wild animals on Mount Olympus...
mares of diomedes
493
According to Diodorus Siculus, Heracles calmed the voracious....
Diomedes
494
To please his daughter Admete...
Hippolyta's belt
495
What daughter of Eurystheus....
Admete
496
What daughter of Ares and Otrera...
Hippolyta
497
What man, who some say accompanied Heracles to Themyscira...
telamon
498
On the southern shore of the Black Sea lay the Thermodon...
Amazons
499
While on their way to Mysia/Amazons, what island...
Pharos
500
What island, ruled by sons of Minos...
Paros
501
What island, besieged by Heracles until the people begged him to take hostages...
Paros
502
What young sons of Androgeus...
Alcaeus and sthenelus
503
Heracles repaid the hospitality of Lycus by aiding...
Bebryces / Mygdon
504
What brother of the notorious King Amycus...
Mygdon
505
The Thermedon river...
Amazons
506
The Bercrycian territory taken by Heracles was renamed Heracleia by what...
Lycus
507
What Amazonian capital...
Themiscyra
508
Who boarded the ship for a parley with Heracles...
Hippolyta
509
Who, chagrined that one of Heracles’ labors should be accomphed with so little danger...
Hera
510
Who posed as an Amazon...
Hera or mabye achilles
511
Who aroused the Amazons...
Hera
512
What sister of Hippolyte fell in love with Theseus...
Antiope
513
Who betrayed the Amazons...
Antiope
514
On the homeward voyage from Themiscyra, what king...
Laomedon
515
Who, with the help of the mortal Aeacus...
Apollo and poseidon
516
Who, told by an oracle to offer his daughter Hesione...
Laomedon
517
In return for the girl and the handsome mares Zeus had...
probably heracles
518
Heracles occasionally took refuge on a wall that the Trojans had built, aided by Athena, while saving what...
Hesione
519
Because Heracles didn’t have a force of sufficient size, what king of Troy...
laomedon
520
As Heracles was embarking from the Thracian town of Aenus...
Sarpedon
521
What brother of Poltys...
Sarpedon
522
After sailing from Aenus, what large island off the Thracian coast...
Thasus
523
A large island off the Thracian coast named Thasus...
Androgeus and Sthenelus / Androgeus
524
What sons of Proteus...
Polygonus and Telegonus
525
When the ship of Heracles reached Torone...
Polygonus and Telegonus / Proteus
526
What son of Callirhoe and Chrysaor...
Geryon
527
3 heads, or else the body of three men...
Geryon
528
Upon reaching the Strait of Gibraltar...
Calpe and Abyla
529
To show future travelers how far he had come, Heracles set up...
Calpe and Abyla
530
Sometimes to have been built to bar sea-monsters from the Mediterranean Sea...
Heracles
531
Sometimes said to be originally joined and wrenched apart by Heracles...
Calpe and Abyla
532
While traveling through Libya, wearied by the sun’s heat, what man...
Heracles
533
Heracles waited on Mount Abas for what son of Typhon...
Orthus
534
After killing Orthus with his club, Heracles gave the same treatment to what...
Eurytion
535
Heracles would have gone off with the cattle without troubling Geryon...
Menoetes
536
What herdsman of Hades...
Menoetes
537
At the river Anthemus, Heracles shot what...
geryon
538
Passing through Abderia, Heracles was attacked by what...
Ialebion and Dercynus
539
What sons of Pos...
Ialebion and Dercynus
540
While in the region about what is now Marseilles, the sons of Pos attacked Heracles and attempted to steal what...
Cattle of Geryon
541
If Zeus had not caused a shower of stones to fall, Heracles would have been killed...
Ligurians / Ialebion and Dercynus
542
Stones still litter the plains west of Marseilles after Zeus saved what...
Heracles
543
While Heracles, proceeding down the Italian peninsula, rested on the future site of Rome...
Cacus
544
By dragging the cattle by the tails, what monster...
Cacus
545
Though he barricaded himself in his cave, Heracles managed to kill what...
Cacus
546
According to a strange story told by Herodotus, Heracles...
Scythes probably
547
Who, sleeping in a region called merely Forest, awoke to find some of his mares...
Heracles
548
A woman whose body was that of a snake from the waist down...
Heracles
549
Only the youngest of Heracles’s three sons by a snake woman...
Scythes
550
When Heracles arrived at Rhegium...
probably eryx
551
Heracles left the cattle of Geryon in the care of Hephaestus...
eryx
552
Who, so sure of his own strength that he wagered his kingdom against Heracles’s herd...
eryx
553
Heracles killed what man in either boxing...
eryx
554
Heracles could not remain to take possession of the land ruled by what...
Eryx
555
Once a wedding gift from Ge to Hera...
Apples of hesperides
556
A grove somewhere at the ends of the earth...
hesperides apples
557
Daughters of Zeus and Themis who lived on the Eridanus...
apples of hesperides
558
Either beyond the river Oceanus or the north wind, or somewhere in the farthest reaches of Libya lay...
apples of hesperides
559
Perhaps near the mountains where the Titan Atlas...
apples of hesperides
560
Perhaps on his way back from the Eridanus, Heracles shot and killed...
Prometheus
561
Passing through Arabia, Heracles killed what...
Emathion
562
What ruler of Egypt once called in a foreign...
Busiris
563
What son of Poseidon and Lysianassa...
Busiris
564
Who demonstrated his faith in the advise of a foreign seer...
Busiris
565
Both what king and his son Amphidamas...
Busiris
566
While moving westward through Libya, Heracles encountered what...
Antaeus
567
Who made a practice or forcing strangers to wrestle with him...
Antaeus
568
Realizing that his foe’s strength was coming from contact with...
Antaeus
569
Who was lifted into the air and crushed in a great bear hug...
Antaeus
570
Who offered to relieve Atlas...
Herky
571
Who, after it became apparent he had no intention of resuming the tiresome...
Atlas
572
Heracles was forced to resort to his wits to escape...
Atlas
573
What gullible giant laid down the apples...
Atlas
573
Some say what constellation shows Heracles fighting either Ladon...
Kneeler
574
Either Heracles’s fight with Ladon or with the Ligurians...
Kneeler
575
The Argonauts were saved from dying by what bereaved...
Herperides
576
A spring that Heracles, with a petulant kick...
Argonauts/Hesperides
577
A hound with three or fifty heads and a snake’s tail...
Cerberus
578
In preparation for what task, the most difficult of all, did Heracles go to Eleusis...
12th
579
Who, purified by Eumolpus, adopted by Pylius, and finally inducted by Musaeus...
Herky
580
What son of Orpheus...
Musaeus
581
What man, who may have initiated Heracles into the Eleusinian mysteries...
Musaeus
582
Guided by Hermes and perhaps by Athena as well to Taenarum...
herky
583
When Heracles entered the gates of the Underworld, the shades of the dead fled from him...
Meleager / Medusa
584
Who in the Underworld did Heracles draw his sword against...
Medusa
585
Who held out their arms imploringly to Heracles as he passed by...
Theseus and Pirithous
586
Who rolled away the stone which Demeter had laid...
herky boy
587
A stone laid by Demeter and rolled away by Heracles...
ascalaphus
588
Who, taking pity on the thirsty shades
herky
589
Whose ribs were cracked by Heracles...
Menoetes
590
Had Persephone not begged him to stop...
Menoetes
591
Some claim that, while in the Underworld, Heracles fought with Hades and wounded...
Paeon
592
What physician of the gods...
Paeon
593
Who emerged into daylight at one or another of the many entrances to Hades...
Heracles
594
Claiming that his marriage was obviously an unlucky one, Heracles gave Me...
Iolaus
595
596
Recalling Heracles’s murder of his own children in a fit of madness...
Eurytus / Iole
596
Who, in spite of the pleas of his elder son Iphitus...
Eurytus
596
Whose mares, sometimes said to have been stolen by Autolycus and other times by Heracles...
Eurytus
596
What region, placed in regions as far apart as Messenia, in the western...
Oechalia
597
Who found Heracles near Pherae...
Iphitus
598
Who invited Heracles to join him in his search for the missing...
Iphitus
599
What man did Heracles fling from the roof...
Iphitus
600
Flung either from the walls of Tiryns or the roof of Heracles’s house...
Iphitus
601
Heracles was punished with a terrible disease for the murder...
Iphitus
602
What ally of Eurytus...
neleus
603
Heracles was purified at Amyclae by Deiphobus...
Iphitus
604
What daughter of Iardanes...
Omphale
604
What son of either Hippolytus or Hippocoon...
Deiphobus
605
What Pythia refused...
Xenocleia
606
Heracles not only stole the tripod of this woman...
Xenocleia
607
Heracles fought with what god until Zeus flung...
Apollo
608
What man would be cured of his disease only if he permitted himself to be sold...
Heracles
609
What wily brothers did Heracles...
cercopes
610
At Ephesus, what wily brothers...
cercopes
611
What city, whose people had long harried Omphale’s...
Itoni
612
What daughter of Syleus...
Xenodice
613
Near the river Sagaris...
Omphale / Ophiuchus
614
Who occupied his time with music and even with spinning...
Heracles
615
Who, so grateful to her unusual slave that she freed him...
Omphale
616
What son of Heracles and Omphale...
Lamus
617
While in servitude to Omphale, a slave girl bore Heracles...
Cleodaeus
618
On his return voyage to Greece from Lydia, whose corpse did Heracles...
Icarus
619
Whose body, which had washed ashore on the island of Doliche...
Icarus
620
What island, formerly known as Doliche...
Icaria
621
Who sailed against Troy with 18 fifty-oared ships...
Herky
622
18 fifty-oared ships...
Heracles / Troy
623
Perhaps because he found himself in Asia minor, Heracles began...
Laomedon
624
What Argive man, left by Heracles to guard the ships...
Oicles
625
The Greeks might have had to settle in for a long and costly siege of the strong-walled city if what...
Telamon
626
Heracles, insulted that what lieutenant...
Telamon
627
Well acquainted with Heracles’s character, what...
Telamon
628
What man, who may have sided with the Greeks against his unscrupulous father...
Priam
629
What shrewd Salaminian diligently began to gather stones into...
Telamon
630
Provided that she pay a token ransom for him, Heracles consented...
Priam
631
What man, whose name is derived from a form of the verb “to buy,”...
Priam
632
Apparently, still overcome with gratitude for Telamon’s flattery...
Zeus / BDE
633
What wife of Telamon...
Eeriboea
634
What man, named for the eagle who signaled his birth...
Ajax the greater
635
In driving the Greek vessels to what island did Hera...
Cos
636
Who sent violent northerly winds against the Greek vessels...
Hera
637
The Greeks were driven the length of the coast of Asia Minor to Cos by what...
hera
638
What people, sometimes said to be named from an early king, Merops...
Coans
639
The people of what island chased the Greek forces with stones...
Cos
640
What son of Pos and Astypalea...
Eurypylus
641
Zeus snatched Heracles away in time to save him...
Calcodon
642
As soon as Heracles had razed Cos, Athena appeared...
Giants
643
Who shot the Giant Ephialtes in the right...
Herky
644
Who, dragged to Pallene...
Alcyoneus
645
What peninsula that juts from Chacidice...
Pallene
646
What man, who had powerful generals in Amarynceus and the Moliones...
Augeias
647
What sons of Actor...
probably moliones
648
Partly perhaps because of an illness that Heracles suffered...
probably Augieas
649
Who waited until the Isthmian games were about to be celebrated...
Heracles
650
Who hid by the road through Cleonae...
Heracles
651
Who, on their way as Eleian ambassadors to the Is...
Moliones
652
While on their way to the Isthmian games...
Moliones
653
Though it may be a misreading of Homer, many claim the Pylains were aided in their...
hades
654
Because he was living in Gerenia at the time...
Nestor
655
Who, shot when he was in the form of an eagle...
Periclymenus
656
Who did Heracles place on the throne of Elis...
Phyleus
657
Who established various shrines at Olympus, including one for his great-grandfather Pelops...
Herky
658
Who, killed alongside eleven of his sons...
Neleus
659
What ally of Neleus...
Hippocoon
660
What man, who had usurped the rule of Sparta after driving out his brother Tyndareus...
Hippocoon
661
Who, like Neleus, refused...
Hippocoon
662
Who had doubly offended Heracles...
Hippocoon
663
Whose twelve sons had murdered Heracles’s....
Hippocoon
664
Because he threw a stone at a dog, what cousin...
Oeonus
665
What king of Tegea...
Cepheus
666
Before attacking powerful Sparta, Heracles sought aid...
Cepheus
667
What young cousin of Heracles...
Oeonus
668
What daughter of Cepheus...
Sterope
669
Who, presented with a lock of hair of Medusa...
Sterope
670
Who, if her city were besieged, need only hold up the lock...
Sterope
671
What sister of Cepheus...
Auge
672
While carrying on negotiations with Cepheus...
Auge / Telephus
673
Who, cured by Asclepius while fighting against Sparta...
Heracles
674
Who, recalled from his haven in Aetolia...
Tyndareus
675
Cepheus and his sons were killed fighting what...
Hippocoon
676
What man, whose wounds were cured by Asclepius...
maybe herky
677
What Aetolian river-god became a rival...
Achelous
678
Who, begging for his horn back...
Achelous
679
The horn of Amalthea was given in exchange...
Achelous
680
Hyginus claims that Deineira was the daughter of what...
Dexamenus
681
Heracles married Deianeria and repaid her father by leading...
Thesprotians
682
While taking the Thesprotian city of Ephyra, Heracles seduced what...
Astyoche
683
What daughter of Phylas...
Astyoche
684
What son of Heracles and Astyoche...
Tlepolemus
685
What son of Architeles...
Eunomus/Cyathus
686
While in Ephyra, Heracles sent direction to what king...
Thespius
687
While in Thesprotia, Heracles took a fancy to what...
White poplar trees
688
During a Calydonian banquet, who was served with wine, or with water for washing...
herky
689
Since the killing was accidental, Oeneus forgave his son-in-law...
Eunomus/Cyathus
690
Heracles, because he felt that he should observe the law that murders, intentional or otherwise...
Eunomus/Cyathus
691
For some reason, the Phlians claimed that what man’s death occured...
Eunomus
692
Not long after leaving Calydon, Heracles and Deineria...
Evenus / nessus
693
Driven from Arcadia long before by Heracles, what centaur had established a profitable...
nessus
694
What rascally centaur was impudent enough...
Nessus
695
Who, though he needed no ferry for himself...
heracles
696
Who, as he was striding breast-deep through the water...
heracles
697
Who, knowing her husband had already taken one concubine in the short time...
Deianeira
698
What region, in the neighborhood of Mount Oeta...
Trachis
699
What man, who drove the Dryopes from Doris...
Heracles
700
To aid either the Malian king Ceyx, or Aegimius, what man...
Heracles
701
What king of the Dorians of Hestiaeotis...
Aegimius
702
Heracles once killed what son of Caeneus...
Coronus
703
Who killed the Dryopian king Laodoras...
Herky
704
What peoples, neighbor enemies of the Dorians...
Lapiths
705
Who refused to accept the land that Aegimius had promised...
Heracles
706
What son of Ares and Pelopia...
Cycnus
707
When Heracles was passing near Itonus, in Pthiontis...
Cycnus
708
At Ormenium, not far from Itonus...
Amyntor
709
What daughter of Amyntor...
Deidamia
710
Leaving Deineira in Trachis, Heracles raised an army...
Eurytus / Oechalia / Iole
711
What sons of Licymnius...
Argius and Melas
712
What man and his surviving sons fought bravely, killing Ceyx’s son...
Eurytus
713
What son of Ceyx...
Hippasus
714
Who raised an army of Malians, Locrians, and Arcadians and advanced on Oechalia...
Heracles
715
Coming to Cepe Cenaeum, what man...
Heracles
716
Because he wishing to observe the rites of sacrifice with all propriety, what man sent his herald...
Lichas
717
What herald of Heracles...
Lichas
718
Who, learning of her husband’s new young concubine...
Deianeira
719
The venom of what monster, which Heracles had used to destroy so many...
Hydra
720
In agony, Heracles picked up what innocent herald...
Lichas
721
Who, whirled about by his heels and flung into the sea...
Lichas
722
A body, turned to stone, still bears the name...
Lichas
723
Who, learning of the horror she had unknowingly worked...
Deianeria
724
What eldest son of Deianeira...
Hyllus
725
Accompanied by what man, Heracles climbed...
Hyllus
726
Who, accompanied by Hyllus...
Heracles
727
Who climbed to the top of Mount Oeta...
Heracles / Hyllus
728
Who, at his father’s command, built a pyre...
Hyllus
729
Neither his son for any of the mourners could bring themselves to set the pyre of what...
Herky
730
What man, passing by with his flocks, consented to light the pyre...
Poeas maybe Philoctetes
731
When Iolaus, then an old man, was trying to defend Heracles...
probably hebe
732
As two stars, what couple rode into battle with the now vigorous...
Heracles and Hebe