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Heracles responded to Athena's request by shooting an arrow dipped in the poisonous blood of the dreaded Hydra at Alcyoneus, which made the Giant fall to the earth.
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Cacus attacked Heracles by spewing fire and smoke, while Heracles responded with tree branches and rocks the size of millstones.
Heracles and request
Heracles accepted the request, and became by her the father of Agathyrsus, Gelonus, and Scythes.
The request was denied because John had no intentions to play for Heracles in the next season.
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Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.
Birth of Heracles by Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier
This resulted in the fulfilment of Zeus's oath by Eurystheus rather than Heracles.
In Pausanias ' recounting, Hera sent witches ( as they were called by the Thebans ) to hinder Alcmene's delivery of 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.
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.
One of the tasks imposed upon Heracles by Eurystheus was to obtain possession of the girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.
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.
In The Frogs ( 405 BC ) by Aristophanes, Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles.
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.
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.
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.
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 was so scared by Heracles ' fearsome guise that he hid in a subterranean bronze winejar, and from that moment forth all labors were communicated to Heracles through a herald, Copreus.
After Heracles died, Eurystheus attempted to destroy his many children ( the Heracleidae, led by Hyllus ), who fled to Athens.
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.
When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring by tying Alcmene's legs in knots.
Heracles and shooting
Heracles saved her from Nessus by shooting him with poisoned arrows.
Heracles and arrow
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.
Enraged, Heracles shot the centaur from the opposite shore with a poisoned arrow ( tipped with the Lernaean Hydra's blood ) and killed him.
A wild centaur named Nessus attempted to kidnap Deianira as he was ferrying her across the river Euenos, but she was rescued by Heracles, who shot the centaur with a poisoned arrow.
Wounded by his nephew Zeus with lightning bolts and finished off with an arrow by his grandnephew Heracles.
The robe was poisoned by the blood of the hydra ( which the arrow that Heracles shot Nessus with had been dipped in ).
While searching for the lion, Heracles fetched some arrows to use against it, not knowing that its golden fur was impenetrable ; when he found and shot the lion and firing at it with his bow, he discovered the fur's protective property when the arrow bounced harmlessly off the creature's thigh.
He pursued Heracles at the River Anthemus but fell victim to an arrow that had been dipped in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra, shot so forcefully by Heracles that it pierced Geryon's forehead, " and Geryon bent his neck over to one side, like a poppy that spoils its delicate shapes, shedding its petals all at once ".
The giant sprang back up from this attack, but Heracles mortally wounded him with an arrow.
The third task did not involve killing a beast, as it had already been established that Heracles could overcome even the most fearsome opponents, so Eurystheus decided to make him capture the Ceryneian Hind, as it was so fast it could outrun an arrow.
Yet another version claims that Heracles trapped the Hind with an arrow between the forelegs of the creature.
Prometheus ' torturer, the eagle, continued its torture on Chiron, so Heracles shot it dead with an arrow.
Heracles later used an arrow dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill the centaur Nessus ; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the Tunic of Nessus, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge.
Heracles saw this from across a river and shot a Hydra-poisoned arrow into Nessus's breast.
Yet another version claims that Heracles trapped the Hind with an arrow between the forelegs of the creature.
He pursued Hercules at the River Anthemus but fell victim to an arrow that had been dipped in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra, shot so forcefully by Heracles that it pierced Geryon's forehead, " and Geryon bent his neck over to one side, like a poppy that spoils its delicate shapes, shedding its petals all at once ".
Halfway through he made a grab at her, but Heracles came to her rescue and quickly shot him with an arrow.
As he died, he told her his blood, now mixed with the poison of the Lernaean Hydra in which Heracles ' arrow had been dipped, would keep Heracles from loving any other woman more than her, if she follows his instructions.
Heracles and dipped
Angry, Heracles shoots him with his arrows dipped in the poisonous blood of the Lernaean Hydra.
Heracles placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.
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