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* Heracles went to war with Augeias after he denied him a promised reward for clearing his stables.
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After having been given the task, Heracles went to Eleusis to be initiated in the Eleusinian Mysteries so that he could learn how to enter and exit the underworld alive, and in passing absolve himself for killing centaurs.
Heracles killed the monster, but Laomedon went back on his word.
Others say that Heracles went to Colchis with the Argonauts, got the Golden Girdle of the Amazons and slew the Stymphalian Birds at that time.
Heracles went to Atlas and offered to hold up the heavens while Atlas got the apples from his daughters.
Heracles went to Atlas and reasoned with him.
In the myth of Theseus, the hero joined Heracles in his expedition, or went on a separate expedition later, and was actually the one who had the encounter with Hippolyta.
After the archery contest, Heracles went to Calydon where on the steps of the temple Heracles saw Deianira, Prince Meleager's sister.
Heracles was now in control of an army and went about to kill Eurytus in revenge.
The cloak was delivered to Heracles and when he put it on the poison went into his body.
Given the choice, she chose Heracles over Zeus who went off in search of other pursuits.
Heracles went to a gathering of heroes, where his passion got the better of him.
In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue.
Heracles went to Trachis after the death of Eunomus.
Heracles and war
In Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain their king, Theiodamas, over one of the latter's bulls, and made war upon the Dryopes " because they gave no heed to justice in their lives ".
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They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.
He and his brother Telamon were friends of Heracles, serving in his expedition against the Amazons, his war against King Laomedon, and with him in the quest for the Golden Fleece.
He asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom.
They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapidae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.
She had three reasons to help him: she was related to Heracles ; Heracles fought a war that made her father King of Sparta ; and she was angry at her husband.
He said that they would win if they stole the Trojan Palladium, brought the bones of Pelops to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus ( Achilles ' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia ) and Philoctetes ( who possessed Heracles ' bow and arrows ) to join the Greeks in the war.
Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could acquire the poisonous arrows of Heracles ( then in Philoctetes ' possession ); steal the Palladium ( which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy ); and put Achilles ' son in the war.
Heracles then led a war against Ormenius, killed him and took Astydameia by force.
Helenus, the prophetic son of King Priam of Troy, was forced to reveal, under torture, that one of the conditions of the Greeks ' winning the war was that they needed the bow and arrows of Heracles.
He healed Philoctetes, holder of the bow and arrows of Heracles required to end the war.
This prompted a second war between Orchomenus and Thebes, only this time Thebes ( under the leadership of Heracles ) was victorious, and a double tribute was imposed on the Orchomenians.
Erginus made war on Thebes, but Heracles defeated the Minyans with his fellow Thebans after arming them with weapons that had been dedicated in temples.
Roman sources such as Ovid state that Hylas ' father was Hercules and his mother was the nymph Melite, or that his mother was the wife of Theiodamas, whose adulterous affair with Heracles caused the war between him and her husband.
As a fiery god of destruction and war, Nergal doubtless seemed an appropriate choice for the red planet, and he was equated by the Greeks either to the combative demigod Heracles ( Latin Hercules ) or to the war-god Ares ( Latin Mars ) -- hence the current name of the planet.
Following the peace treaty of 311 between Antigonus and his enemies, and the murder of the boy-king Alexander and his mother, Polyperchon retained these areas, and when war again broke out between Antigonus and the others, he sent Alexander's reputed natural son Heracles to Polyperchon as a bargaining chip to use against Cassander.
According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt ; according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.
Commander Levitt kept the Heracles a neutral ship for the rest of the war.
The struggle of the Olympian gods, supported by Heracles, the astrological deities governing the days and hours and originating in the ancient race of the Titans, personifications of the forces of war and fate, sea creatures, and Dionysus with his followers, appears much rather to be a cosmological event of general ethical relevance.
The poet invokes the Muse in his second prologue, saying that in emulation of Homer he will skip over the first six years of the war, and compares at length Dionysus ' Indian War with the deeds of Perseus, Minos, and Heracles, concluding that Dionysus is better than the heroes.
The colony alarmed Athens, who feared the colony could be used to attack Euboea, and in Women of Trachis Heracles is said to be either waging war or planning to do so against Euboea.
Vickers also argues that Sophocles chose the name " Lichas " for Heracles ' messenger as a result of the link to current events, as Lichas was the name of a prominent Spartiate envoy during the war.
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Extending one night into three, Zeus slept with Alcmene ( his great-granddaughter ) ( thereby conceiving Heracles ) and recounted Amphitryon's victories against the Teleboans.
It is said that after Heracles was apotheosised, Hyllus, having pursued and killed Eurystheus, cut off Eurystheus ' head and gave it to Alcmene, who gouged out the eyes with weaving pins.
The Heracleidae fell into disagreement about where to take Alcmene's body, with some wishing to take her corpse back to Argos, and others wishing to take it to Thebes to be buried with Amphitryon and Heracles ' children by Megara.
A statue in the Galleria Borghese depicts Cerberus with three heads sitting by the side of Hades, while a bronze sculpture depicting Heracles ' twelfth labour shows the demi-god leading a two-headed Cerberus from the underworld.
Details of the individual episodes may be found in the article on the Labours of Heracles, but Hera was connected with all of the opponents Heracles had to overcome.
For his second labour, to slay the Lernaean Hydra, Heracles took with him his nephew, Iolaus, as a charioteer.
When Heracles returned with the Erymanthian Boar, Eurystheus was frightened and hid again in his jar and begged Heracles to get rid of the beast ; Heracles obliged.
Striking a deal with Augeias, Heracles proposed a payment of a tenth of Augeias ' cattle if the labour was completed successfully.
When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring by tying Alcmene's legs in knots.
Heracles throttled a single snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were a child's toys.
When Heracles took the cattle of Geryon, he shot Hera in the right breast with a triple-barbed arrow: the wound was incurable and left her in constant pain, as Dione tells Aphrodite in the Iliad, Book V. Afterwards, Hera sent a gadfly to bite the cattle, irritate them and scatter them.
Hera then sent a flood which raised the water level of a river so much that Heracles could not ford the river with the cattle.
** Perseus Classics Collection: Greek and Roman Materials: Text: Hesiod ( Greek texts and English translations for Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Heracles with additional notes and cross links.
Heracles was the son of the affair Zeus had with the mortal woman Alcmene.
Once the oath was sworn, Hera hurried to Alcmene's dwelling and slowed the birth of the twins Heracles and Iphicles by forcing Ilithyia, goddess of childbirth, to sit crosslegged with her clothing tied in knots, thereby causing the twins to be trapped in the womb.
But with divine milk, Heracles had acquired supernatural powers.
Heracles, heartbroken, searched for a long time but Hylas had fallen in love with the nymphs and never showed up again.
On his way back to Mycenae from Iberia, having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour, Heracles came to Liguria in North-Western Italy where he engaged into battle with two giants, Albion and Bergion or Dercynus, sons of Poseidon.
Heracles happened to arrive ( along with Telamon and Oicles ) and agreed to kill the monster if Laomedon would give him the horses received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus ' kidnapping Ganymede.
* Heracles visited Evander with Antor, who then stayed in Italy.
* Heracles rivaled with Lepreus and eventually killed him.
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