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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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