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Who admired Hercules |
All of Greece, except for Athens |
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Who was Hercules |
He was the strongest man in Greece, and thought no one, even the gods, could stop him |
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Main personality trait of Hercules |
He was very confident |
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How could Hercules be defeated |
With magic |
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One thing Hercules was not |
Intelligent |
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Compare theseus and hercules |
Theseus was intelligent, admired by Athens, and a leader. Hercules was admired by all of Greece, except for Athens. He wasn't smart, and listened to his emotions. |
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Did Hercules have a bad temper? |
Yes |
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What did Hercules spend a lot of his life doing |
Apologizing for things he did when his emotions took over. |
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Where was Hercules born |
Thebes |
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Who did everyone think Hercules' father was |
Amphitryon |
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Who was Hercules' legitimate father |
Zeus |
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Who was Hercules' mother |
Alcmena |
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Where was Amphitryon when Alcmena became pregnant |
Away fighting |
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How did Zeus visit Alcmena |
Disguised as her husband |
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Who was Hercules' brother |
Iphicles |
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Who was Iphicles' father |
Amphitryon |
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Why did Hera want to kill Hercules |
He was born out of an affair with her husband |
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How did Hera try to kill Alcmea's sons |
She sent 2 poisonous snakes into their crib |
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What did Iphocles try to do when the snakes appeared |
Cried and tried to escape |
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Who killed the 2 snakes |
Hercules |
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Who was Teiresias |
A blind prophet in Thebes |
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What did Teiresias tell Alcmena |
That Hercules was going to do great things |
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Hercules' parents cared greatly about his what |
Education |
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What subject did Hercules hate |
Music |
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How did Hercules accidentally kill his music teacher |
He hit him in the head with a lute |
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What did Hercules do at age 18 |
Killed the Thespian lion |
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What did Hercules do with the lion skin |
Wore it like a cape with the head as a hood |
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Who did Hercules help conquer |
The Minyans |
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Whose hand in marriage was Hercules given |
Princess Megara |
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How many sons did hercules have |
3 |
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What did Hera do to Hercules |
Cast a spell of insanity on him, causing him to kill his family |
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Who told Hercules what happened |
Amphitryon |
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Where did Hercules move to |
Athens with Theseus |
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Where did the Oracle of Delphi send Hercules |
To his cousin Eurystheus |
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What are the 12 tasks given to hercules called |
The 12 labors |
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What was the 1st labor |
Kill the lion of Nemea |
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The 2nd labor |
Go to Lerna and kill the 9 headed hydra |
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The 3rd labor |
Bring back a stag (alive), with gold horns from the forests of Cerynitia |
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How did Hercules kill the lion of Nemea |
It couldn't be harmed by weapons, and so Hercules choked it. |
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What happened if you cut off the head of a hydra |
2 more grew back |
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Who helped Hercules kill the hydra and how |
His cousin Iolous brought him a branding iron |
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How did he kill the hydra |
He cut off the heads and cauterized them |
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What did he do with the immortal head |
Buried it beneath a rock |
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Who was the stag sacred to |
Artemis |
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How long did it take Hercules to catch the stag |
A year |
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The 4th labor |
Capture a boar from Mount Erymanthus |
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The 5th labor |
Clean the Augean stables in one day |
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The 6th labor |
Drive away the Stymphalian birds |
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The 7th labor |
Go to Crete and get the bull Poseidon had given Minos |
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8th labor |
Get rid of the man eating mares of King Diomedes of Thrace |
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9th labor |
Bring back the girdle of Hippolyta |
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11th labor |
Bring back the golden apples of the hesperdes |
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12th labor |
Bring up Cerberus from hades |
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How did he kill the boar |
He chased it and tired him out, then pushed it into a large snowbank. |
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How did he clean the stables |
He changed the course of 2 rivers to flow through the stable and wash all the filth away |
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How did he take care of the stymphalian birds |
Athena helped him chase them out of their nests and then he shot them |
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How did he get the bull |
He mastered it, put him in a boat, and brought him back. |
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How did he get rid of the horses |
He killed Diomedes and drove them off |
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When he tried to get the girdle, what happened |
Hippolyta was going to give it to him, but Hera cast a spell over the women on the island, and they all attacked his ship. He killed Hippolyta and escaped with the girdle. |
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10th labor |
Bring back the cattle of geryon |
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Who was Geryon |
A monster with 3 bodies who lived on Erythia |
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When hercules reached Erythia what did he do |
Built a memorial to himself called the pillars of hercules |
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Where did he take the cattle back to |
Mycanae |
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What are the pillars of hercules now |
Gibraltar and Centa |
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What happened on the quest for the apples |
He met Atlas who said he knew where the apples are and said he would get them if hercules would hold the earth for a while |
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What problem occured after hercules took the world |
Atlas didn't want to take it back |
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How did hercules trick atlas |
He asked if he could hold the earth for a moment so he could put a cushion on his shoulders, and then took the apples and left |
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How was Hercules allowed to take Cerberus |
Without any weapons |
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What happened after he brought the dog back up to earth |
Eurystheus had him bring it back |
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Who was Anataeus |
A wrestler who killed anyone who lost to him |
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How did hercules kill Antaeus |
He lifted him off the ground and strangled him |
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Where did Antaeus get his power |
From the ground |
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How was prometheus freed |
By Hercules, who then killed the eagle who tortured him |
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What did Hercules do at the end of his life |
Laid down on his funeral pyre, and was ready to die |
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Where is hercules taken after his death |
Olympus |
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Who did he make up with in olympus |
Hera |
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Who did hercules marry after he died |
Hera's daughter Hebe |
