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only greek city which did not consider hercules to be its greatest hero | |
Hercules helped the gods conquer this race with his arrows | |
Armor-bearer of Hercules | |
Hercules was born here, in this Greek city | |
Mother of Hercules | |
Half-Brother of Hercules | |
Distinguished general who was the husband of Hercules' mother | |
Beasts sent by Hera to attack Hercules and his half-brother before they were a year old | |
Blind prophet of Thebes who prophesied greatness from Hercules | |
Hercules was taught four subjects in school: fencing, wrestling, driving, and this | |
When Hercules was eighteen he killed this animal (must be specific), which ever after he wore its skin as a cloak with the head of forming a kind of hood over his head | |
The animal lived in the woods of this | |
A burdensome tribute was exacted from the Thebans by these people, who were conquered by Hercules | |
Princess of Thebes who was killed by Hercules after they were wed | |
Number of people killed by Hercules in his mad fit of rage (sent by Hera) | |
Cousin of Hercules who sent Hercules to do the 12 labours | |
The cousin of Hercules mentioned previously was king of this city | |
Labour 1: defeat the lion of _____, which no weapon could wound | |
Labour 2: to go to Lerna and kill the _________, which had _______ (#) heads, and lived in a swamp-------Hercules used the help of his nephew, called _______ | |
Labour 3: to bring back alive a stag with horns of gold, which lived in the forests of _______ | |
Labour 4: Hercules had to capture this, which had its lair on Mount Erymanthus | |
Labour 5: clean the stables of this man, which was solved by diverted the courses of two rivers | |
Labour 6: he had to drive away these birds | |
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Labour 7: he had to go here to attain a beautiful bull which Poseidon had given to its king, Minos | |
Labour 8: Hercules had to get the man-eating mares of this Thracian king | |
Labour 9: to get this from Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons | |
Labour 10: Geryon, a monster with three bodies, who lived on Erythia, had these animals which were to be attained by Hercules | |
Labour 11: to get the ______of the Hesperides | |
Labour 12: to retrieve from Hades this dog | |
Method of the killing of Antaeus | |
Achelous and Hercules both wanted to marry this woman | |
Achelous, a river-god, took the form of this but was easily subdued by Hercules | |
Trojan king who had cheated Apollo and Poseidon | |
Zeus had given these animals to the Trojan king's grandfather, and this king promised (although ultimately refused) to give them to Hercules | |
This friend of Hercules helped Hercules capture Troy, and kill the king | |
Name one of three people who were freed from death/despair/imprisonment while Hercules was doing his labours | |
Admetus was king of _____ | |
Apollo in anger at Zeus because Zeus killed Apollo's son Aesculapius killed these workmen of Zeus | |
Omphale was queen of this place | |
Hercules worked as a slave for Omphale for some say 1, some say 3, years. He had to dress up as a ________, and submitted patiently. | |
He had been forced to be a slave for Omphale because Hercules had killed a good friend, son of King ________ | |
Hercules later killed that king (the father of Hercules' good friend), but saved some captive maidens, among whom was the beautiful daughter of that king, called ___________ | |
Hercules had a great pyre built on this mountain, where he would die | |
This youthful follower held the torch to set the wood of the pyre on fire, and was given Hercules' bow and arrows | |
The youthful man was to have great fame with those great weapons, especially in this city | |
Hercules married _____ in heaven | |
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