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Hades and Hercules
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Hades
Son of the Titans Cronus and RheaThree Older Sisters: Hestia, Demeter, Hera
Two Younger Brothers: Poseidon, Zeus
The only mortals who visited the Underworld:
Hercules, Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, andTheseus.
Hades, while King of the Underworld, was not Death
The embodiment of Death was Thanatos
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Details of Hades
Hades carried a two-pronged fork that would shatter all.
Greeks would bang their fists on the ground so Hades would hear.
Helmet made by the Cyclopes (given to Perseus to kill Medusa).
Hades sat on an black throne.
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Hercules
Greek Herakles
Most famous and beloved of ancient
heroes.
Parentage: Zeus + mortal Alcmene
Husband: Amphitryon (King of
Thebes)
Herakles glorious gift of Hera
Hera decided to pay Zeus back for his
infidelity by making the rest of Hercules'
life as miserable as she could
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Early Life
Hera sends two snakes to kill
Hercules
Hercules, in his crib, strangles
one in each hand.
Chariot driving: Amphitryon, king of
Thebes, son of Alcaeus, and grandson of
Perseus (Medusa killer).
Wrestling: Autolycus, son of Mercury Heavy Fighting: Castor, another son of
Zeus
Singing and Playing the Lyre: Linus, a
son of Apollo
Hercules Teachers
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2nd Century Mosaic Antakya, Turkey
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Banishment
In a fit of rage Hercules
kills Linus.
Amphitryon banishes him
to become a herdsman.
While in the country, hekills a marauding lion and
forever wears the skin a
his clothes.
He also carries a huge
club he carved from atree.
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Hercules
Returns &
12 Labors
He returns to Thebes and helps his father defend the city; Amphitryon
dies; Hercules marries princess Megara.
They have two children.
Hera sends him into a fit of madness and he murders Megara and his
children
Athena puts him to sleep to wear off the madness.
Hercules goes to the Delphic oracle, and Apollo tells him he has 12 labors
to perform before he finds peace.
Apollo promises to make Hercules a god if all 12 labors are completed.
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Hercules 12 Labors
1 Kill a lion with his bare hands. 2 Kill the Hydra (snake w/nine headscut one head off, two come
back.
Burns eight heads, buries the ninth under a rock; makes poison arrows
3 Capture a stag.
4 Kill a boar.
5 Clean stables: 3,000 oxen; stables cleaned 30 years ago.
6 Kill deadly birds (w/Athena help & poisonous arrows)
7 Capture the Cretan bull (same bull from Minos tale)
8 Capture man-eating horses.
9 Capture the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.
10 Capture the oxen of Geryon (3-headed monster) 11 Capture the golden apples of the Hesperides (Atlas daughters)
12 Bring Cerberus from the Underworld (Athena & Mercury help, Hadesagrees)
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Hercules End
While finishing his lastlabor, he meets hissecond wife, Deianira.
She gives Hercules acloak she made and
smears oil on the inside(given by a centaur whosaid itd make him loveher forever).
It burns his body, hetries to pull it off, it burnsdeeper.
Hercules asks for afuneral pyre to be made(better than pain).
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Hercules the god
As the fire starts (Philoctetes
lights it), Zeus takes pity on his
son.
Hera agrees.
Athena brings Hercules fromthe pyre to Mt. Olympus
Other stories about Hercules:
2. Rescued damsels, including
Hesione, a princess of Troy
3. Fought with Apollo
4. Helped the gods in a battle against
the Giants who tried to take over Mt.
Olympus right after his death.
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