#12 LABOURS OF HERCULES 8 CE SKIN#
Such a creature was Typhon, the father of the Nemean lion.Įurystheus sent Hercules to bring back the skin of the Nemean lion, but the skin of the Nemean lion was impervious to arrows or even the blows of his club, so Hercules had to wrestle with it on the ground in a cave. Etna where their occasional struggles cause the earth to shake and their breath is the molten lava of a volcano. Eventually, they were subdued and buried alive under Mt. Some of the giants had a hundred hands others breathed fire.
The Typhon was one of the giants who rose up against the gods after they had successfully suppressed the Titans. Hercules' motive for performing them is to gain permission from Eurystheus to return to the Peloponnesian City of Tiryns.Īlbrecht Altdorfer/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 1.0 In contrast, for Euripides, a dramatist of the Classical period, the labors are much less important.A later historian, referred to as Apollodorus (second century A.D.), says the 12 labors are a means of atonement for the crime of murdering his wife, children, and the children of Iphicles.Historian Diodorus Siculus (circa 49 B.C.E.) calls the 12 labors the hero undertook a means to Hercules' apotheosis (deification).Some say this is the reason Hercules undertook the 12 labors, but there are other explanations, too. He also destroys families, including his own. In the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, Hercules violates the guest-host covenant. While he became an example of virtue, Hercules also made serious errors. Larger than life, Hercules (also called Herakles or Heracles) the demi-god surpasses the rest of the heroes of Greek mythology in almost everything.
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