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Heracles and captured
For his seventh labour Heracles captured the Cretan Bull.
Heracles captured and took Iole unwillingly captive as his concubine.
Heracles captured her and demanded Hippolyte's girdle in exchange for her freedom.
But it was also during his stay in Lydia that Heracles captured the city of the Itones and enslaved them, killed Syleus who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard, and captured the Cercopes.
In one version, during Heracles ' ninth labor, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyte, when he captured the Amazons ' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home ( or she was captured by Heracles and then given by him to Theseus ).

Heracles and her
Instead, Alcestis took his place, but Heracles managed to " persuade " Thanatos, the god of death, to return her to the world of the living.
As soon as Lucina leapt up, Alcmene was released from her spell and gave birth to Heracles.
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.
Hippolyta complied and Heracles let her go.
When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying Alcmene's labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely.
Eurystheus did come out, but the moment Heracles let the hind go, she sprinted back to her mistress, and Heracles departed, saying that Eurystheus had not been quick enough.
Macaria, one of the daughters of Heracles, and her brothers and sisters hid from Eurystheus in Athens, ruled by King Demophon.
In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so that the baby will drink her divine milk and will thus become immortal.
In the myth of the birth of Heracles, it is Hera herself who sits at the door instead, delaying the birth of Heracles until her protégé, Eurystheus, had been born first.
Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named " Hera-famous " in her honor ; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece.
One account of the origin of the Milky Way is that Zeus had tricked Hera into nursing the infant Heracles: discovering who he was, she pulled him from her breast, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day.
Unlike any Greeks, the Etruscans instead pictured a full-grown bearded Heracles at Hera's breast: this may refer to his adoption by her when he became an Immortal.
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.
Some myths state that in the end, Hera befriended Heracles for saving her from Porphyrion, a giant who tried to rape her during the Gigantomachy, and that she even gave her daughter Hebe as his bride.
Thus, Heracles ' very existence proved at least one of Zeus ' many illicit affairs, and Hera often conspired against Zeus ' mortal offspring as revenge for her husband's infidelities.
On the night the twins Heracles and Iphicles were to be born, Hera, knowing of her husband Zeus ' adultery, persuaded Zeus to swear an oath that the child born that night to a member of the House of Perseus would become High King.
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.

Heracles and demanded
The sight of Heracles ' dark-tanned posterior set them both to laughing ; when Heracles demanded to know what they were laughing at, he joined them in their laughter and let them go.
When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it.

Heracles and Hippolyta's
Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.
After the incident, Eurystheus sent Heracles to bring back Hippolyta's Girdle.
After the incident, Eurystheus sent Heracles to bring back Hippolyta's Girdle.

Heracles and girdle
One of the tasks imposed upon Heracles by Eurystheus was to obtain possession of the girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.
The last of them became king of the Scythians, according to his father's arrangement, because he was the only one among the three brothers that was able to manage the bow which Heracles had left behind, and to use his father's girdle.
He designed Hermes ' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles ' armor, Heracles ' bronze clappers, Helios ' chariot ( and one for himself, to be used on account of his lameness ), the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros ' bow and arrows.
Deianira is also the name of a second character in Greek mythology, an Amazon killed by Heracles during his ninth labour, the quest for the girdle of Hippolyta.
In the myth of Heracles, Hippolyta ’ s girdle was the object of his ninth labor.
Most versions of the story say that Hippolyta was so impressed with Heracles that she gave him the girdle without argument, perhaps while visiting him on his ship.
Asteria was the ninth Amazon killed by Heracles when he came for Hippolyte's girdle.
* Son of Actor ( or of Androgeos ) and a companion of Heracles, whom he accompanied to the land of the Amazons to steal Hippolyte's girdle.
Heracles, as one of his Twelve Labors, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of Ares, which was worn by Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.
* Tecmessa is also the name of one of the Amazons killed by Heracles in his quest for the girdle of Hippolyte.
The Bibliotheca relates that he was a son of Androgeus ( the son of Minos and Pasiphaë ) and brother of Sthenelus, and that when Heracles, on his expedition to fetch the girdle of Ares, which was in the possession of the queen of the Amazons, arrived at Paros, some of his companions were slain by the sons of Minos.

Heracles and exchange
Heracles allowed her to ransom him in exchange for his veil whence Podarces was henceforth known as Priam from primai ' to buy '.

Heracles and for
More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.
Capturing Cerberus, without using weapons, was the final labour assigned to Heracles ( Hercules ) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult.
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.
When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.
The king was so frightened of the beast that he jumped into a pithos, and asked Heracles to return it to the underworld in return for releasing him from his labors.
This fourth play in his tetralogy for 438 BC ( i. e. it occupied the position conventionally reserved for satyr-plays ) is a ' tragedy ' that features Heracles as a satyric hero in conventional satyr-play scenes, involving an arrival, a banquest, a victory over an ogre ( in this case Death ), a happy ending, a feast and a departure to new adventures.
The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.
The immediate necessity for the Labours of Heracles is as penance for Heracles ' murder of his own family, in a fit of madness, which had been sent by Hera ; however, further human rather than mythic motivation is supplied by mythographers who note that their respective families had been rivals for the throne of Mycenae.
Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).
When Eurystheus found out that Heracles ' nephew had helped him he declared that the labour had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him.
When Augeias learned of Heracles ' bargain for the task, he refused payment.
However, Eurystheus refused to credit the labour to Heracles, as he had performed it for payment.
To extend what may have once been ten Labours to the canonical dozen, it was said that Eurystheus didn't count the Hydra, as he was assisted, nor the Augean stables, as Heracles received payment for his work.
Hera assigned Heracles to labor for King Eurystheus at Mycenae.
Whatever myth-making served to account for an archaic representation of Heracles as " Hera's man " it was thought suitable for the builders of the Heraion at Paestum to depict the exploits of Heracles in bas-reliefs.

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