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34 Cards in this Set
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Zeus + Alcmene = |
Heracles. Zeus disguised himself as Amphitryon |
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Alcmene + Amphitryon |
Iphicles |
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Iphicles + Alcathous |
Iolas - helped Hercules fight the Hydra/ Charioteer |
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Sent two serpents to kill the twins |
Hera - jealous |
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Linos |
Accidentally killed by Heracles, taught him the lyre |
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Thespios |
Had Heracles sleep with all 50 of his daughters |
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Daughter of Creon, 3 sons Therimachoes, Creontiades, Deicon. Killed by Heracles, children thrown into a fire |
Megara |
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Made Heracles go crazy and kill his wife + kids |
Hera |
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Home of Eurystheus |
Tiryns |
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Heracles serves for 12 years, 10 labors, likes to hide in storage jars |
Eurystheus |
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First Labor |
Nemean Lion - Typhon's offspring - Nemea - first shot with his bow, then club - chased it to a cave and blocked one entrance - chocked it with hands - wore it's skin
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Second Labor |
the Lernian Hydra - swamp in Lernia - 9 heads, 8 mortal, 1 immortal - Iolas helped: burned the heads while Heracles chopped them off - Hera sent a crab - Heracles burried the main head |
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two heads grow back, dipped arrows in it's bile |
the Lernian Hydra |
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the Third Labor |
the Cerynitian Deer - Oinoe, the deer was to be delivered alive to Mycenae - sacred to artemis - pursued it for an entire year - fled to Artemisios mountain, Landon River - Heracles captured it at the river and Artemis came to get it - said Euysthueus was forcing him to do it and returned it to Mycenae |
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Fourth Labor |
Erymanthian Boar - had to bring the boar alive - causing destruction in Psophis - making attacks from Erymanthos - chased it from a thicket into snow, lassoed it brought it to Mycenae |
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Fifth Labor |
Cattle of Augeias - clear out the dung of Augeais' (son of Helios) cattle from the stables in one day if he gave him one tenth of the cattle - diverted rivers Apleios and Peneios - Augeis denied payment, his son Phyleus stood for heracles and he exiled him |
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Sixth Labor |
The Stymphalian Birds - countless birds took refuge in the thick woods - apollodorus said they were harmless, ovid's version they shoot feathers like arrows - athena gave him bronze castanets to rattle that scared the birds
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Seventh Labor |
The Cretan Bull - went to Crete to get the bull, king Minos let him take it, carried it back, showed it to Erystheus, he let it go free and wondered to Sparta and Arcadia where it plagued the locals |
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Eighth Labor |
the Mares of Diomedes - Diomedes was the son of Ares, king of Bistones, owned man eating mares - heracles sailed with followers including his boyfriend Abderos son of Hermeswho the mares dragged to death - Heracles killed Diomedes and fought the Bistones, founded Abdera, fed the remains to the mares who he gave to Erystheus |
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Ninth Labor |
The War Belt of Hippolyte - Queen of amazons near river Thermodon - had Ares' war belt as a symbol of her power - Admete wanted to have it - Hippolyte was killed by Heracles
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Tenth Labor |
Cattle of Geryones - Bring back cattle of Geryones from Erytheia (an island near Oceanos) - Red cattle - shot an arrow at the son, Helios was impressed and gave him a cup to sail |
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Eleventh Labor |
Apples of the Hesperides -guarded by a serpant, offspring of Typhon + Echidna which had 100 heads -On prometheus' advice, he held the earth for Atlas while he got the apples, and then tricked him to take the earth back |
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Twelfth Labor |
Cerberos - bringing back the dog of Hades from the underworld - has three heads - made his descent through Tainaron in Laciona - all souls fled except Gorgon, she is an empty phantom - brought him to Eurystheus and then back to Hades |
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Body of three grown men together, joined into one at the belly, separated into three from the waist down. Dog Orthos |
Geryon |
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Two labors Erystheus did not count |
The Cattle of Augeias and the Lernian Hydra |
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Death and transformation into a god |
Apotheosis |
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Hero= |
a diety of mortal birth |
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Descent into the underworld |
Catabasis |
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First King of Athens, half snake. Daughters Aglauros, Pandrosos |
Cecrops |
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Born from the seed of Hephaestus and the earth, placed in a box |
Erichthonius |
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wife of Tereus |
Procne |
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sister of Procne, had her tongue cut out |
Philomela |
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King of Thrace and son of Ares |
Tereus |
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Son of Tereus |
Itysm served up on a plate and eaten by his father |
