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Augean stables</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fifth:_Augean_stables-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sixth:_Stymphalian_birds" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sixth:_Stymphalian_birds"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Sixth: Stymphalian birds</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sixth:_Stymphalian_birds-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seventh:_Cretan_Bull" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seventh:_Cretan_Bull"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Seventh: Cretan Bull</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seventh:_Cretan_Bull-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eighth:_Mares_of_Diomedes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eighth:_Mares_of_Diomedes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.8</span> <span>Eighth: Mares of Diomedes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eighth:_Mares_of_Diomedes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ninth:_Belt_of_Hippolyta" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ninth:_Belt_of_Hippolyta"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.9</span> <span>Ninth: Belt of Hippolyta</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ninth:_Belt_of_Hippolyta-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tenth:_Cattle_of_Geryon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tenth:_Cattle_of_Geryon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.10</span> <span>Tenth: Cattle of Geryon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tenth:_Cattle_of_Geryon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eleventh:_Golden_apples_of_the_Hesperides" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eleventh:_Golden_apples_of_the_Hesperides"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.11</span> <span>Eleventh: Golden apples of the Hesperides</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eleventh:_Golden_apples_of_the_Hesperides-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Twelfth:_Cerberus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Twelfth:_Cerberus"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.12</span> <span>Twelfth: Cerberus</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Twelfth:_Cerberus-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Aftermath" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Aftermath"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Aftermath</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Aftermath-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allegorical_interpretation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegorical_interpretation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Allegorical interpretation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegorical_interpretation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> 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href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daouzek_trevell_Herakles" title="Daouzek trevell Herakles – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Daouzek trevell Herakles" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_dotze_treballs_d%27H%C3%A8racles" title="Els dotze treballs d'Hèracles – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Els dotze treballs d'Hèracles" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herakles%27_tolv_arbejder" title="Herakles' tolv arbejder – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Herakles' tolv arbejder" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklese_v%C3%A4git%C3%B6%C3%B6d" title="Heraklese vägitööd – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Heraklese vägitööd" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%B8%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B9_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%97%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE" title="Άθλοι του Ηρακλή – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Άθλοι του Ηρακλή" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_doce_trabajos_de_Heracles" title="Los doce trabajos de Heracles – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Los doce trabajos de Heracles" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_dek_du_laboroj_de_Heraklo" title="La dek du laboroj de Heraklo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="La dek du laboroj de Heraklo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklesen_hamabi_lanak" title="Heraklesen hamabi lanak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Heraklesen hamabi lanak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B1%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84" title="دوازده‌خان هرکول – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دوازده‌خان هرکول" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travaux_d%27H%C3%A9racl%C3%A8s" title="Travaux d'Héraclès – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Travaux d'Héraclès" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_doce_traballos_de_Heracles" title="Os doce traballos de Heracles – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Os doce traballos de Heracles" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%A4%EB%9D%BC%ED%81%B4%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%EC%9D%98_12%EA%B3%BC%EC%97%85" title="헤라클레스의 12과업 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="헤라클레스의 12과업" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%AB_%D5%BD%D5%AD%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Հերակլեսի սխրագործություններ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հերակլեսի սխրագործություններ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugas-tugas_Herakles" title="Tugas-tugas Herakles – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tugas-tugas Herakles" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Erautir_Heraklesar" title="Þrautir Heraklesar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Þrautir Heraklesar" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodici_fatiche_di_Eracle" title="Dodici fatiche di Eracle – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Dodici fatiche di Eracle" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labores_Herculis" title="Labores Herculis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Labores Herculis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodekathlos" title="Dodekathlos – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Dodekathlos" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklio_%C5%BEygdarbiai" title="Heraklio žygdarbiai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Heraklio žygdarbiai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5" title="Задачите на Херакле – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Задачите на Херакле" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buruh_Herakles" title="Buruh Herakles – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Buruh Herakles" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%8D%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%80%EA%AF%A8%EA%AF%82%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%81_%EA%AF%80%EA%AF%A4_%EA%AF%8A%EA%AF%A7%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%A5%EA%AF%A1%EA%AF%81%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%A1" title="ꯍꯔꯀꯨꯂꯤꯁ ꯀꯤ ꯊꯧꯔꯥꯡꯁꯤꯡ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯍꯔꯀꯨꯂꯤꯁ ꯀꯤ ꯊꯧꯔꯥꯡꯁꯤꯡ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9F%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B0%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AE%E1%81%8F_%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%90%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9D%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8" title="ဟာကျူလီ၏ လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်များ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဟာကျူလီ၏ လုပ်ငန်းတာဝန်များ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li 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For the short story collection by Agatha Christie, see <a href="/wiki/The_Labours_of_Hercules" title="The Labours of Hercules">The Labours of Hercules</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Twelve_Labours_Altemps_Inv8642.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Twelve_Labours_Altemps_Inv8642.jpg/500px-Twelve_Labours_Altemps_Inv8642.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Twelve_Labours_Altemps_Inv8642.jpg/960px-Twelve_Labours_Altemps_Inv8642.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="3675" data-file-height="1160" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_sculpture" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman sculpture">Roman</a> <a href="/wiki/Relief_sculpture" class="mw-redirect" title="Relief sculpture">relief</a> (3rd century AD) depicting a sequence of the Labours, representing from left to right the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ceryneian_Hind" title="Ceryneian Hind">Ceryneian Hind</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian birds</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Girdle_of_Hippolyta" class="mw-redirect" title="Girdle of Hippolyta">Girdle of Hippolyta</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Augean_stables" class="mw-redirect" title="Augean stables">Augean stables</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LL%C3%8DRIA_(SPAIN)_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg/220px-LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg/330px-LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg/440px-LL%C3%8DRIA_%28SPAIN%29_MOSAIC_OF_THE_LABORS_OF_HERACLES.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1988" /></a><figcaption>Mosaic of Llíria (Valencia, Spain)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Labours of Hercules</b> or <b>Labours of Heracles</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%86%CE%B8%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:ἆθλος">ἆθλοι</a></span>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">âthloi</i></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Labores</i>) are a series of tasks carried out by <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a>, the greatest of the Greek heroes, whose name was later <a href="/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization">romanised</a> as <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a>. They were accomplished in the service of King <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a>. The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative. </p><p>The establishment of a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an <a href="/wiki/Epic_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Epic poem">epic poem</a>, now lost, written by <a href="/wiki/Peisander" title="Peisander">Peisander</a> (7th to 6th centuries BC).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having tried to kill Heracles ever since he was born, <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> induced a madness in him that made him kill his wife and children. Afterwards, Heracles went to the <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Oracle of Delphi</a> to atone, where he prayed to the god Apollo for guidance. Heracles was told to serve Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, for ten years. During this time, he was sent to perform a series of difficult feats, called labours.<sup id="cite_ref-p._253_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p._253-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg/250px-P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg/330px-P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg/500px-P._Oxy._XXII_2331.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1355" data-file-height="637" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Heracles_Papyrus" title="Heracles Papyrus">Heracles Papyrus</a>, a fragment of a 3rd-century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labours of Heracles (<a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxyrhynchus Papyrus">Oxyrhynchus Papyrus</a> 2331)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2684" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way" title="The Origin of the Milky Way">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jacopo_Tintoretto" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacopo Tintoretto">Jacopo Tintoretto</a>, 1575</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> was the son born by the mortal woman <a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a> after her affair with <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>, the king of the gods, who had disguised himself as her husband <a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alcmene, fearing the jealousy of Zeus's wife <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Infant_exposure" class="mw-redirect" title="Infant exposure">exposed</a> her infant son, who was taken by either Zeus or his daughter <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> (the protectress of heroes) to Hera, who did not recognize Heracles and nursed him out of pity. Heracles sucked so strongly that he caused Hera pain, and when she pushed him away, her milk sprayed across the heavens, forming the <a href="/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a>. But with divine milk, Heracles had acquired supernatural strength. Either Zeus or Athena brought the infant back to his mother, and he was subsequently raised by his parents. The child was originally given the name Alcides by his parents; it was only later that he became known as Heracles in an unsuccessful attempt to mollify Hera, with Heracles meaning Hera's "pride" or "glory". He and his mortal twin, <a href="/wiki/Iphicles" title="Iphicles">Iphicles</a>, were just eight months old when Hera sent two giant snakes into the children's chamber. Iphicles cried from fear, but his twin brother grabbed a snake in each hand and strangled them. He was found by his nurse playing with them on his cot as if they were toys. Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer <a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a>, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters. </p><p>Heracles married Megara, eldest daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Creon_(king_of_Thebes)" title="Creon (king of Thebes)">Creon of Thebes</a>. However, in a fit of madness induced by Hera, Heracles killed Megara and their children.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i>, however, it was not until after Heracles had completed his labours and on his return from the Underworld that he murdered Megara and his children.<sup id="cite_ref-p._253_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p._253-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After recovering his sanity, Heracles deeply regretted his actions; he was purified by King <a href="/wiki/Thespius" title="Thespius">Thespius</a>, then traveled to <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a> to inquire how he could atone for his actions. <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a>, the Oracle of Delphi, advised him to go to <a href="/wiki/Tiryns" title="Tiryns">Tiryns</a> and serve his cousin, King <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a> of Mycenae, for twelve years,<sup id="cite_ref-Hsu2021_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hsu2021-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> performing whatever labours Eurystheus might set him; in return, he would be rewarded with immortality. Heracles despaired at this, loathing to serve a man whom he knew to be far inferior to himself, yet fearing to oppose his father, Zeus. Eventually, Heracles placed himself at Eurystheus's disposal. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_twelve_labours">The twelve labours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The twelve labours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg/220px-Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg/330px-Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg/440px-Map_of_Heracles%27s_Early_Labors.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1094" data-file-height="918" /></a><figcaption>Heracles's first six labours were located in the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Of the twelve labours performed by Heracles, six were located in the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a>, culminating with the rededication of <a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Greece" title="Olympia, Greece">Olympia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ruck_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ruck-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Six others took the hero farther afield, to places that were, according to Ruck and Staples, "all previously strongholds of Hera or the 'Goddess' and were entrances to the Netherworld".<sup id="cite_ref-ruck_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ruck-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In each case, the pattern was the same: Heracles was sent to kill or subdue, or to fetch back for Eurystheus (as Hera's representative) a magical animal or plant. </p><p>A famous depiction of the labours in Greek sculpture is found on the <a href="/wiki/Metope_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metope (architecture)">metopes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Zeus_at_Olympia" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Zeus at Olympia">Temple of Zeus at Olympia</a>, which date to the 460s BC.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eurystheus originally ordered Heracles to perform ten labours. Heracles accomplished these tasks, but Eurystheus refused to recognize two: the slaying of the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>, as Heracles' nephew and charioteer <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a> had helped him; and the cleansing of the <a href="/wiki/Augean_stables" class="mw-redirect" title="Augean stables">Augean stables</a>, because Heracles accepted payment for the labour<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (in other versions it was the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_Birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Stymphalian Birds">Stymphalian Birds</a> that were discounted instead of the Augean stables, for the help of Athena giving Heracles bronze rattles). Eurystheus thus set two more tasks (fetching the golden apples of the <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a> and capturing <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a>), which Heracles also performed, bringing the total number of tasks to twelve. </p><p>In his labours, Heracles was sometimes accompanied by a male companion (an <i><a href="/wiki/Eromenos" title="Eromenos">eromenos</a></i>), according to <a href="/wiki/Licymnius" title="Licymnius">Licymnius</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and others, such as <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a>, his nephew. Several of the labours involved the offspring (by various accounts) of <a href="/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon">Typhon</a> and his mate <a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a>, all overcome by Heracles. </p><p>The order of the labours given by the mythographer <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a> is:<i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p> <ol><li>Slaying the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a></li> <li>Slaying the nine-headed <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a></li> <li>Capturing the <a href="/wiki/Ceryneian_Hind" title="Ceryneian Hind">Ceryneian Hind</a></li> <li>Capturing the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a></li> <li>Cleaning the <a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augean</a> stables in a single day</li> <li>Slaying the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian birds</a></li> <li>Capturing the <a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a></li> <li>Stealing the <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></li> <li>Obtaining the belt of <a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta</a>, queen of the <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a></li> <li>Obtaining the cattle of the three-bodied giant <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a></li> <li>Stealing three of the golden apples of the <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a></li> <li>Capturing and bringing back <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li></ol> <p><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a> gives a similar sequence of the labours, though the orders of the third and fourth, fifth and sixth, and eleventh and twelfth labours are swapped.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First:_Nemean_lion">First: Nemean lion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: First: Nemean lion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg/250px-Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg/330px-Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg/500px-Heracles_and_the_Nemea_Lion_Pieter_Paul_Rubens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3595" data-file-height="2161" /></a><figcaption><i>Hercules' fight with the Nemean lion</i>, <a href="/wiki/Pieter_Paul_Rubens" class="mw-redirect" title="Pieter Paul Rubens">Pieter Paul Rubens</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3350" data-file-height="2673" /></a><figcaption>Heracles wrestling the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a>. Detail of a Roman mosaic from <a href="/wiki/Lliria,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lliria, Spain">Llíria</a> (Spain).</figcaption></figure> <p>Heracles wandered in the area until he came to the town of <a href="/wiki/Cleonae_(Argolis)" title="Cleonae (Argolis)">Cleonae</a>. There he met a boy who said that if Heracles slew the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a> and returned within 30 days, the town would sacrifice a lion to Zeus, but if he did not return within 30 days or if he died, the boy would sacrifice himself to Zeus. Another version claims that he met Molorchos, a shepherd who had lost his son to the lion, saying that if he came back within 30 days, a ram would be sacrificed to Zeus. If he did not return within 30 days, it would be sacrificed to the dead Heracles as a mourning offering. </p><p>While searching for the lion, Heracles fletched some arrows to use against it, not knowing that its golden fur was impervious to projectiles. When he found and shot the lion, firing at it with his bow, Heracles discovered the fur's protective property as the arrow bounced harmlessly off the creature's thigh. After some time, Heracles made the lion return to his cave. The cave had two entrances, one of which Heracles blocked; he then entered the other. In those dark and confined quarters, Heracles stunned the beast with his club and, using his immense strength, strangled it to death. During the fight the lion bit off one of his fingers. Others say that he shot arrows at it, eventually shooting it in the unarmored mouth. After slaying the lion, he tried to skin it with a knife from his belt, but failed. He then tried sharpening the knife with a stone and even tried using the stone itself. Finally, Athena, noticing the hero's plight, told Heracles to use one of the lion's own claws to skin the pelt. Others say that Heracles' armor was, in fact, the hide of the <a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Cithaeron" title="Lion of Cithaeron">Lion of Cithaeron</a>. </p><p>When he returned on the 30th day carrying the carcass of the lion on his shoulders, King Eurystheus was amazed and terrified. Eurystheus forbade him to ever again enter the city; from then on he was to display the fruits of his labours outside the city gates. Eurystheus would then tell Heracles his tasks through a herald, not personally. Eurystheus even had a large bronze jar made for himself in which to hide from Heracles if need be. Eurystheus then warned him that the tasks would become increasingly difficult. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second:_Lernaean_Hydra">Second: Lernaean Hydra</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Second: Lernaean Hydra"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg/250px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg/330px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg/500px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_and_the_Lernaean_Hydra_-_1964.231_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2603" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra (1964) by <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Moreau" title="Gustave Moreau">Gustave Moreau</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="729" /></a><figcaption>Heracles slaying the Lernaean Hydra</figcaption></figure> <p>Heracles' second labour was to slay the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>, a many-headed snake which Hera had raised with the sole purpose of slaying Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near <a href="/wiki/Lerna" title="Lerna">Lake Lerna</a>, where the hydra dwelt, Heracles attacked the hydra's several heads, but each time one of its heads was removed, a new head (or two) would grow back. Additionally, during the fight, a giant crab came to assist the Hydra by biting Heracles on the foot. Heracles was able to kill the crab, but realizing that he could not defeat the hydra alone, he called on his nephew Iolaus (who had come with Heracles) for help. Working in tandem, once Heracles had removed a head (with his sword or club), Iolaus burned the stumps with a firebrand, preventing them from growing back. In such a way Heracles was able to kill the hydra, after which he dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood. According to Apollodorus, one of the Hydra's (here nine) heads—the middle one—was immortal, so when Heracles cut off this head, Heracles buried it and placed a great rock on top of it.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, Heracles used one of his poisonous arrows to kill the centaur <a href="/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)" title="Nessus (mythology)">Nessus</a>; and Nessus's tainted blood was applied to the <a href="/wiki/Tunic_of_Nessus" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunic of Nessus">Tunic of Nessus</a>, by which the centaur had his posthumous revenge. Both <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> report that the stench of the river <a href="/wiki/Anigrus" class="mw-redirect" title="Anigrus">Anigrus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Elis" title="Ancient Elis">Elis</a>, making all the fish of the river inedible, was reputed to be due to the Hydra's venom, washed from the arrows Heracles used on the centaur.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third:_Ceryneian_Hind">Third: Ceryneian Hind</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Third: Ceryneian Hind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_(Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/220px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/330px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/440px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Hirschkuh_der_Diana_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3605" data-file-height="4020" /></a><figcaption>Heracles capturing the Ceryneian Hind</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2476" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Heracles capturing the Ceryneian Hind</figcaption></figure> <p>Angered by Heracles' success against the <a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean Lion</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a>, Eurystheus (advised by Hera) devised an altogether different task for the hero, commanding Heracles to capture the <a href="/wiki/Ceryneian_Hind" title="Ceryneian Hind">Ceryneian Hind</a>, a beast so fast it could outpace an arrow. </p><p>After a long search, Heracles awoke one night and laid eyes on the elusive hind, which was only visible due to the glint of moonlight on its antlers. He then chased the hind on foot for a full year through <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Istria" title="Istria">Istria</a>, and the land of the <a href="/wiki/Hyperboreans" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperboreans">Hyperboreans</a>. How Heracles caught the hind differs depending on the telling; in most versions, he captured the hind while it slept, rendering it lame with a trapping net. </p><p>Eurystheus commanded Heracles to catch the hind in the hope that it would enrage <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> and lead her to punish the hero for his desecration of the sacred animal. As he was returning with the hind to present it to Eurystheus, Heracles encountered Artemis and her brother <a href="/wiki/Apollo_(god)" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollo (god)">Apollo</a>. He begged the goddess for forgiveness, explaining that he had snared the hind as part of his penance, but promised to return it to the wild soon thereafter. Convinced by Heracles' earnestness, Artemis forgave him, foiling Eurystheus' plan. </p><p>After bringing the hind to Eurystheus, Heracles was informed that it was to become part of the King's <a href="/wiki/Menagerie" title="Menagerie">menagerie</a>. Knowing that he must return the hind to the wild as he had promised Artemis, Heracles agreed to hand it over only on the condition that Eurystheus himself come out and take it from him. The King came forth, but the moment that Heracles let the hind go, it sprinted back to its mistress with unparalleled swiftness. Before taking his leave, Heracles commented that Eurystheus had not been quick enough, outraging the King. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fourth:_Erymanthian_Boar">Fourth: Erymanthian Boar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Fourth: Erymanthian Boar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg/250px-Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg/330px-Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg/500px-Heracles_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="649" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules,_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional,_Madrid,_Espa%C3%B1a,_2016_07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg/250px-Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg/330px-Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg/500px-Mosaico_de_los_trabajos_de_H%C3%A9rcules%2C_Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional%2C_Madrid%2C_Espa%C3%B1a%2C_2016_07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Heracles slaying the Erymanthian Boar</figcaption></figure> <p>Eurystheus was disappointed that Heracles had overcome yet another creature and was humiliated by the hind's escape, so he assigned Heracles another dangerous task. By some accounts, the fourth labour was to bring the fearsome <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a> back to Eurystheus alive (there is no single definitive telling of the labours). On the way to Mount Erymanthos where the boar lived, Heracles visited <a href="/wiki/Pholus_(mythology)" title="Pholus (mythology)">Pholus</a> ("caveman"), a kind and hospitable <a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">centaur</a> and old friend. Heracles ate with Pholus in his cavern (though the centaur devoured his meat raw) and asked for wine. Pholus had only one jar of wine, a gift from <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> to all the centaurs on Mount Erymanthos. Heracles convinced him to open it, and the smell attracted the other centaurs. They did not understand that wine needs to be tempered with water, became drunk, and attacked Heracles. Heracles shot at them with his poisonous arrows, killing many, and the centaurs retreated all the way to <a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a>'s cave. </p><p>Pholus was curious why the arrows caused so much death. He picked one up but dropped it, and the arrow stabbed his hoof, poisoning him. One version states that a stray arrow hit Chiron as well. He was immortal, but he still felt the pain. Chiron's pain was so great that he volunteered to give up his immortality and take the place of <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a>, who had been chained to the top of a mountain to have his liver eaten daily by an <a href="/wiki/Eagle" title="Eagle">eagle</a>. Prometheus' torturer, the eagle, continued its torture on Chiron, so Heracles shot it dead with an arrow. It is generally accepted that the tale was meant to show Heracles as being the recipient of Chiron's surrendered immortality. However, this tale contradicts the tradition that Chiron later taught <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a>. The tale of the centaurs sometimes appears in other parts of the twelve labours, as does the freeing of Prometheus. </p><p>Heracles had visited Chiron to gain advice on how to catch the boar, and Chiron had told him to drive it into thick snow, which sets this labour in mid-winter. Heracles caught the boar, bound it, and carried it back to Eurystheus, who was frightened of it and ducked down in his half-buried storage <i><a href="/wiki/Pithos" title="Pithos">pithos</a></i>, begging Heracles to get rid of the beast. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fifth:_Augean_stables">Fifth: Augean stables</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fifth: Augean stables"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg/250px-Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg/330px-Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg/500px-Hercules_cleans_the_Augean_stables_by_redirecting_the_rive.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1300" data-file-height="834" /></a><figcaption>Heracles cleans the Augean stables by redirecting the river</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg/375px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1300" data-file-height="1016" /></a><figcaption>Heracles rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus, to clean out the Augean stables</figcaption></figure> <p>The fifth labour was to clean the stables of King <a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augeas</a>. This assignment was intended to be both humiliating and impossible, since these divine livestock were immortal, and had produced an enormous quantity of dung. The Augean (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ɔː/: 'au' in 'fraud'">ɔː</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/dʒ/: 'j' in 'jam'">dʒ</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>) stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and over 1,000 cattle lived there. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers <a href="/wiki/Alfeios_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfeios River">Alpheus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pineios_River_(Peloponnese)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pineios River (Peloponnese)">Peneus</a> to wash out the filth. </p><p>Before starting on the task, Heracles had asked Augeas for one-tenth of the cattle if he finished the task in one day, and Augeas agreed, but afterwards Augeas refused to honour the agreement on the grounds that Heracles had been ordered to carry out the task by Eurystheus anyway. Heracles claimed his reward in court and was supported by Augeas' son <a href="/wiki/Phyleus" title="Phyleus">Phyleus</a>. Augeas banished them both before the court had ruled. Heracles returned, slew Augeas, and gave his kingdom to Phyleus. </p><p>The success of this labour was ultimately discounted as the rushing waters had done the work of cleaning the stables, and because Heracles was paid for doing the labour; Eurystheus determined that Heracles still had seven labours to perform.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sixth:_Stymphalian_birds">Sixth: Stymphalian birds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sixth: Stymphalian birds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png/250px-Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png/330px-Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds.png 2x" data-file-width="433" data-file-height="515" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and the Stymphalian birds</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2087" data-file-height="2744" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and the Stymphalian birds</figcaption></figure> <p>The sixth labour was to defeat the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian birds</a>, man-eating birds with beaks made of <a href="/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a> and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims. They were sacred to <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>, the god of war. Furthermore, their dung was highly toxic. They had migrated to <a href="/wiki/Lake_Stymphalia" title="Lake Stymphalia">Lake Stymphalia</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a>, where they bred quickly and took over the countryside, destroying local crops, fruit trees, and townspeople. Heracles could not go too far into the swamp, for it would not support his weight. Athena, noticing the hero's plight, gave Heracles a rattle which <a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a> had made especially for the occasion. Heracles shook the rattle and frightened the birds into the air. Heracles then shot many of them with his arrows. The rest flew far away, never to return. In some versions of this story instead of the Augean stables being discounted it was the <a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_Birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Stymphalian Birds">Stymphalian Birds</a> labour for getting the help of Athena. The <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a> would later encounter them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seventh:_Cretan_Bull">Seventh: Cretan Bull</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Seventh: Cretan Bull"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2539" data-file-height="1996" /></a><figcaption>Heracles capturing the Cretan Bull</figcaption></figure> <p>The seventh labour, also categorised as the first of the non-<a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponneisan</a> labours,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was to capture the <a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a>, father of the <a href="/wiki/Minotaur" title="Minotaur">Minotaur</a>. According to Apollodorus, Heracles sailed to <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, asked King <a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a> for help, but Minos told Heracles to capture the bull himself, which he did. After showing the bull to Eurystheus, Heracles released the bull which ended up at <a href="/wiki/Marathon,_Greece" title="Marathon, Greece">Marathon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eighth:_Mares_of_Diomedes">Eighth: Mares of Diomedes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Eighth: Mares of Diomedes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses,_1752.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg/220px-Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg/330px-Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg/440px-Jean_Baptiste_Marie_Pierre_-_Diomedes_King_of_Thrace_Killed_by_Hercules_and_Devoured_by_his_own_Horses%2C_1752.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1798" /></a><figcaption>Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre – <i>Diomedes King of Thrace Killed by Heracles and Devoured by his own Horses</i>, 1752</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="930" data-file-height="1185" /></a><figcaption>Heracles before capturing the Mares of Diomedes</figcaption></figure> <p>As the eighth of his labours Heracles was sent by <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">King Eurystheus</a> to steal the <a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a> from <a href="/wiki/Diomedes_of_Thrace" title="Diomedes of Thrace">their owner</a>. The mares' madness was attributed to their unnatural diet which consisted of the flesh<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of unsuspecting guests or strangers to the island.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some versions of the myth say that the mares also expelled fire when they breathed.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mares, which were the terror of Thrace, were kept tethered by iron chains to a bronze manger in the now vanished city of Tirida<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were named Podargos (the swift), Lampon (the shining), Xanthos (the yellow) and Deinos (or Deinus, the terrible).<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although very similar, there are slight variances in the exact details regarding the mares' capture. </p><p>In one version, Heracles brought a number of volunteers to help him capture the giant horses.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After overpowering Diomedes' men, Heracles broke the chains that tethered the horses and drove the mares down to sea. Unaware that the mares were man-eating and uncontrollable, Heracles left them in the charge of his favored companion, <a href="/wiki/Abderus" title="Abderus">Abderus</a>, while he left to fight Diomedes. Upon his return, Heracles found that the boy was eaten. As revenge, Heracles fed Diomedes to his own horses and then founded <a href="/wiki/Abdera,_Thrace" title="Abdera, Thrace">Abdera</a> next to the boy's tomb.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In another version, Heracles, who was visiting the island, stayed awake so that he didn't have his throat cut by Diomedes in the night, and cut the chains binding the horses once everyone was asleep. Having scared the horses onto the high ground of a knoll, Heracles quickly dug a trench through the peninsula, filling it with water and thus flooding the low-lying plain. When Diomedes and his men turned to flee, Heracles killed them with an axe (or a club<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), and fed Diomedes' body to the horses to calm them. </p><p>In yet another version, Heracles first captured Diomedes and fed him to the mares <i>before</i> releasing them. Only after realizing that their King was dead did his men, the <a href="/wiki/Bistones" title="Bistones">Bistonians</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attack Heracles. Upon seeing the mares charging at them, led in a chariot by Abderus, the Bistonians turned and fled. </p><p>In all versions the horses are calmed by eating human flesh, giving Heracles the opportunity to bind their mouths shut and easily take them back to King Eurystheus, who dedicated the horses to <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some versions, they were allowed to roam freely around <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Argos" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Argos">Argos</a>, having become permanently calm, but in others, Eurystheus ordered the horses taken to Olympus to be sacrificed to Zeus, but Zeus refused them, and sent wolves, lions, and bears to kill them.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Lancelyn_Green" title="Roger Lancelyn Green">Roger Lancelyn Green</a> states in his <i>Tales of the Greek Heroes</i> that the mares' descendants were used in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>, and survived even to the time of Alexander the Great.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the incident, Eurystheus sent Heracles to bring back <a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta's Girdle</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ninth:_Belt_of_Hippolyta">Ninth: Belt of Hippolyta</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Ninth: Belt of Hippolyta"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta,_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg/250px-The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg/330px-The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg/500px-The_magic_girdle_of_Hippolyta%2C_Queen_of_the_Amazons.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>The magic girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons</figcaption></figure> <p>As his ninth labour, Heracles travelled to the land of the Amazons to bring back the Belt of <a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta</a>, the queen of the <a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a>. According to Apollodorus, the belt was gifted to Hippolyta by her father <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>, as an emblem of her position as queen.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his account, Eurystheus set Heracles the task because his daughter <a href="/wiki/Admete" title="Admete">Admete</a> wanted to have the belt for herself.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In earlier sources, however, the purpose of the labour was seemingly for Heracles to overcome the Amazons, with Eurystheus requiring the belt as evidence of his success.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accompanied by a group of companions, Heracles set sail for the land of Amazons, which was generally believed to be along the shore at the southern end of the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sources vary on who came with him: <a href="/wiki/Hellanicus_of_Lesbos" title="Hellanicus of Lesbos">Hellanicus</a> states that he was accompanied by all of the <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a> mentions that <a href="/wiki/Peleus" title="Peleus">Peleus</a> came on the voyage,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philochorus" title="Philochorus">Philochorus</a> considered <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a> to have been his companion,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an early Corinthian vase shows <a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a> and another figure named Pasimelon by his side.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of ships they leave in also varies: Apollodorus says they went in a single ship,<sup id="cite_ref-2.5.9_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2.5.9-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> states that there were three, and in a late account there were nine.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apollodorus relates that on the way to <a href="/wiki/Themiscyra_(Pontus)" title="Themiscyra (Pontus)">Themiscyra</a>, where the Amazons lived, he and his crew stopped at the island of <a href="/wiki/Paros" title="Paros">Paros</a>, where several of the sons of <a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a> lived; when these sons killed two of Heracles' companions, he retaliated by murdering them. When he began threatening others, he was offered two of Minos' grandchildren, <a href="/wiki/Alcaeus_(mythology)" title="Alcaeus (mythology)">Alcaeus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sthenelus" title="Sthenelus">Sthenelus</a>, whom he took into his crew. Continuing on their voyage, they next arrived at the court of <a href="/wiki/Lycus_(mythology)" title="Lycus (mythology)">Lycus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mysia" title="Mysia">Mysia</a>; in a battle between Lycus and King <a href="/wiki/Mygdon_of_Bebryces" class="mw-redirect" title="Mygdon of Bebryces">Mygdon of Bebryces</a>, Heracles killed the rival king and gained land from the <a href="/wiki/Bebryces" title="Bebryces">Bebryces</a>, and gifted it to Lycus, who named it Heraclea.<sup id="cite_ref-2.5.9_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2.5.9-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All would have gone well for Heracles had it not been for Hera. Hippolyta, impressed with Heracles and his exploits, agreed to give him the belt and would have done so had Hera not disguised herself and walked among the Amazons sowing seeds of distrust. She claimed the strangers were plotting to carry off the queen of the Amazons. Alarmed, the warrior women set off on horseback to confront Heracles. According to <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aella_(Amazon)" title="Aella (Amazon)">Aella</a> was the first Amazon to charge Heracles. Her name, meaning "stormswift," signified her remarkable speed and agility, but even she could not withstand Heracles and was ultimately defeated.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Believing that Hippolyta had betrayed him, Heracles, now convinced of treachery, killed her, took the belt, and returned to Eurystheus.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayor2021_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayor2021-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenth:_Cattle_of_Geryon">Tenth: Cattle of Geryon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tenth: Cattle of Geryon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_(Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/250px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/330px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/500px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_und_die_Rinder_des_Geryones_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3525" data-file-height="3970" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and the Cattle of Geryones</figcaption></figure> <p>The tenth labour was to obtain the cattle of the three-bodied giant <a href="/wiki/Geryon" title="Geryon">Geryon</a>. In Apollodorus' account, Heracles had to go to the island of Erytheia in the far west. On the way he became so frustrated at the heat that he aimed an arrow at the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>. The sun-god <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a>, impressed by his audacity, gave Heracles the golden cup that Helios used to sail across the sea from west to east each night. Heracles took the cup and rode it to Erytheia.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Heracles landed at Erytheia, he was confronted by the two-headed dog <a href="/wiki/Orthrus" title="Orthrus">Orthrus</a>. With one blow from his olive-wood club, Heracles killed Orthrus. <a href="/wiki/Eurytion" title="Eurytion">Eurytion</a> the herdsman came to assist Orthrus, but Heracles dealt with him the same way. </p><p>On hearing the commotion, Geryon sprang into action, carrying three shields and three spears, and wearing three helmets. He attacked Heracles at the River Anthemus, but was slain by one of Heracles' poisoned arrows. Heracles shot so forcefully that the arrow 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."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heracles then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus. In <a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman</a> versions of the narrative, Heracles drove the cattle over the <a href="/wiki/Aventine_Hill" title="Aventine Hill">Aventine Hill</a> on the future site of <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. The giant <a href="/wiki/Cacus" title="Cacus">Cacus</a>, who lived there, stole some of the cattle as Heracles slept, making the cattle walk backwards so that they left no trail, a repetition of the trick of the young <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>. According to some versions, Heracles drove his remaining cattle past the cave, where Cacus had hidden the stolen animals, and they began calling out to each other. In other versions, Cacus' sister <a href="/wiki/Caca_(mythology)" title="Caca (mythology)">Caca</a> told Heracles where he was. Heracles then killed Cacus and set up an altar on the spot, later the site of Rome's <a href="/wiki/Forum_Boarium" title="Forum Boarium">Forum Boarium</a> (the cattle market). </p><p>To annoy Heracles, Hera sent a <a href="/wiki/Gadfly_(mythology)" title="Gadfly (mythology)">gadfly</a> to bite the cattle, irritate them, and scatter them. Within a year, Heracles retrieved them. Hera then sent a flood which raised the level of a river so much that Heracles could not cross with the cattle. He piled stones into the river to make the water shallower. When he finally reached the court of Eurystheus, the cattle were sacrificed to Hera. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eleventh:_Golden_apples_of_the_Hesperides">Eleventh: Golden apples of the Hesperides</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Eleventh: Golden apples of the Hesperides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_(Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/220px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/330px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg/440px-Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Herkules_raubt_die_%C3%84pfel_der_Hesperiden_%28Herzog_Anton_Ulrich-Museum%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3617" data-file-height="4049" /></a><figcaption>Heracles stealing the apples from the Hesperides</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2139" data-file-height="1467" /></a><figcaption>Hercules stealing the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides</figcaption></figure> <p>After Heracles completed the first ten labours, Eurystheus gave him two more, claiming that slaying the Hydra did not count (because Iolaus helped Heracles) and neither did cleaning the Augean Stables (either because he was paid for the job or because the rivers did the work). </p><p>The first additional labour was to steal three of the golden apples from the garden of the <a href="/wiki/Hesperides" title="Hesperides">Hesperides</a>. Heracles first caught the <a href="/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Sea" title="Old Man of the Sea">Old Man of the Sea</a>, the shapeshifting sea god,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In some variations, Heracles, either at the start or at the end of this task, meets <a href="/wiki/Antaeus" title="Antaeus">Antaeus</a>, who was invincible as long as he touched his mother, <a href="/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaia (mythology)">Gaia</a>, the Earth. Heracles killed Antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him in a bear hug.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a> claims that Heracles stopped in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, where King <a href="/wiki/Busiris_(Greek_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Busiris (Greek mythology)">Busiris</a> decided to make him the yearly sacrifice, but Heracles burst out of his chains. </p><p>Heracles finally made his way to the garden of the Hesperides, where he encountered <a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a> holding up the heavens on his shoulders. Heracles persuaded Atlas to get the three golden apples for him by offering to hold up the heavens in his place for a little while. Atlas could get the apples because, in this version, he was the father or otherwise related to the Hesperides. When Atlas returned, he decided that he did not want to take the heavens back and instead offered to deliver the apples himself, but Heracles tricked him by agreeing to remain in place of Atlas on the condition that Atlas relieve him temporarily while Heracles adjusted his cloak. Atlas agreed, but Heracles reneged and walked away with the apples. According to an alternative version, Heracles slew <a href="/wiki/Ladon_(mythology)" title="Ladon (mythology)">Ladon</a>, the dragon who guarded the apples, instead. Eurystheus was furious that Heracles had accomplished something that Eurystheus thought could not possibly be done. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twelfth:_Cerberus">Twelfth: Cerberus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Twelfth: Cerberus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg/220px-Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg/330px-Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg/440px-Hercules_and_Cerberus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1695" /></a><figcaption>Heracles and Cerberus</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_12.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg/250px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg/500px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_12.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1090" data-file-height="561" /></a><figcaption>Hercules and Cerberus</figcaption></figure> <p>The twelfth and final labour was the capture of <a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a>, the multi-headed dog that was the guardian of the gates of the <a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld" title="Greek underworld">Underworld</a>. To prepare for his descent into the Underworld, Heracles went to <a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a> to be initiated in the <a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian Mysteries</a>. He entered the Underworld with Hermes and Athena as his guides. </p><p>While in the Underworld, Heracles met <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pirithous" title="Pirithous">Pirithous</a>. The two companions had been imprisoned by <a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a> for attempting to kidnap his wife, <a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a>. One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs, then turning into stone. Another says that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast, inviting them to sit; they unknowingly sat in chairs of forgetfulness and were permanently ensnared. 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 his attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the goddess for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind. </p><p>Heracles found Hades and asked permission to bring Cerberus to the surface, which Hades agreed to if Heracles could subdue the beast without using weapons. Heracles overpowered Cerberus with his bare hands and slung the beast over his back. He carried Cerberus out of the Underworld through a cavern entrance in the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnese" title="Peloponnese">Peloponnese</a> and brought it to Eurystheus, who again fled into his <i><a href="/wiki/Pithos" title="Pithos">pithos</a></i>. Eurystheus begged Heracles to return Cerberus to the Underworld, offering in return to release him from any further labours when Cerberus disappeared back to his master. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After completing the twelve labours, one tradition says that Heracles joined <a href="/wiki/Jason" title="Jason">Jason</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a> in their quest for the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Fleece" title="Golden Fleece">Golden Fleece</a>. However, <a href="/wiki/Herodorus" title="Herodorus">Herodorus</a> (c. 400 BC) disputed this and denied that Heracles ever sailed with the Argonauts. According to a separate tradition (e.g., <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i>) Heracles accompanied the Argonauts but did not travel with them as far as <a href="/wiki/Colchis" title="Colchis">Colchis</a>. </p><p>According to Euripides's play <i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i>, it is at this point after his labours are completed and he is returning home to meet his wife and family that Heracles is driven mad and kills them, after which he is exiled from Thebes and leaves for Athens. </p><p>Other versions tell the epilogue of Hercules becoming the general of an army, and conquering and pillaging various cities, one of which he was able to obtain a princess (versions vary on her name). Hercules' wife, thinking he would have an affair with her, was so desperate as to believe that a centaur's blood was a love potion and dipped Hercules' clothes with it. As it was truly poison, Hercules screamed in agony and begged his cousin (the one who helped him in killing the Lernaean Hydra) to burn him on a funeral <a href="/wiki/Pyre" title="Pyre">pyre</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Allegorical_interpretation">Allegorical interpretation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Allegorical interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some ancient Greeks found allegorical meanings of a moral, psychological or philosophical nature in the Labours of Heracles. This trend became more prominent in the Renaissance.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, <a href="/wiki/Heraclitus_(commentator)" title="Heraclitus (commentator)">Heraclitus the Grammarian</a> wrote in his <i>Homeric Problems</i>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I turn to Heracles. We must not suppose he attained such power in those days as a result of his physical strength. Rather, he was a man of intellect, an initiate in heavenly wisdom, who, as it were, shed light on philosophy, which had been hidden in deep darkness. The most authoritative of the Stoics agree with this account.... The (Erymanthian) boar which he overcame is the common incontinence of men; the (Nemean) lion is the indiscriminate rush towards improper goals; in the same way, by fettering irrational passions he gave rise to the belief that he had fettered the violent (Cretan) bull. He banished cowardice also from the world, in the shape of the hind of Ceryneia. There was another "labor" too, not properly so called, in which he cleared out the mass of dung (from the Augean stables) — in other words, the foulness that disfigures humanity. The (Stymphalian) birds he scattered are the windy hopes that feed our lives; the many-headed hydra that he burned, as it were, with the fires of exhortation, is pleasure, which begins to grow again as soon as it is cut out.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Donald Andrew Russell, David Konstan, <i>Heraclitus: Homeric Problems</i> 33 (2005)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angim" title="Angim">Angim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copreus_of_Elis" class="mw-redirect" title="Copreus of Elis">Copreus of Elis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rostam%27s_Seven_Labours" title="Rostam's Seven Labours">Rostam's Seven Labours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter" title="The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter">The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apples_of_the_Hesperides" title="Apples of the Hesperides">Apples of the Hesperides</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/A_Greek%E2%80%93English_Lexicon" title="A Greek–English Lexicon">LSJ</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D41%3Aentry%3Da%29%3Dqlos">ἆθλος</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Brill%27s_New_Pauly" class="mw-redirect" title="Brill's New Pauly">Brill's New Pauly</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/peisander-e911920">s.v. 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(2009). <i>Mythical creatures</i>. Guiley, Rosemary. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7910-9394-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7910-9394-8"><bdi>978-0-7910-9394-8</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/299280635">299280635</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mythical+creatures&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Chelsea+House+Publishers&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F299280635&rft.isbn=978-0-7910-9394-8&rft.au=Godfrey%2C+Linda+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALabours+of+Hercules" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA263">p. 263</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.9">2.5.9</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, p. 399; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.9">2.5.9</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, p. 398.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA263">p. 263</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=l1c1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126">p. 126</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hellanicus_of_Lesbos" title="Hellanicus of Lesbos">Hellanicus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA193">fr. 106 Fowler, p. 193</a> [= Scholia on <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>'s <i>Nemean</i> 3.64b].</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, p. 398; <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/pindar-fragments/1997/pb_LCL485.407.xml">fr. 172 Race, pp. 406, 407</a> [= Scholia on <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Andromache_(play)" title="Andromache (play)">Andromache</a></i>, 796.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA357">p. 357</a>; <i><a href="/wiki/Brill%27s_New_Jacoby" class="mw-redirect" title="Brill's New Jacoby">BNJ</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0328.bnjo-2-tr1-eng:f110">328 F110</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Amyx, p. 557; Gantz, p. 397.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2.5.9-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-2.5.9_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-2.5.9_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.9">2.5.9</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=l1c1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126">p. 126</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diodorus Siculus, <i>Bibliotheca historica</i>, 4.16.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mayor2021-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mayor2021_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mayor, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=l1c1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA127">127</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=l1c1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132">132</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA258">p. 264</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.10">2.5.10</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stesichorus" title="Stesichorus">Stesichorus</a>, fragment, translated by Denys Page.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kerenyi, <i>The Heroes of the Greeks</i>, 1959, p.172, identifies him in this context as <a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a>; as a shapeshifter he is often identified as <a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In some versions of the tale, Heracles was directed to ask <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a>. As payment, he freed Prometheus from his daily torture. This tale is more usually found as part of the story of the <a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_Boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Erymanthian Boar">Erymanthian Boar</a>, since it is associated with <a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a> choosing to forgo immortality and taking Prometheus' place.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.10">2.5.10</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hyginus_(Fabulae)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus (Fabulae)">Hyginus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" title="Fabulae">Fabulae</a></i> 31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brumble, H. David. <i>Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings</i>. Routledge, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Russell, Donald Andrew; Konstan, David (trs.). Heraclitus: Homeric Problems. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Labours_of_Hercules&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Amyx, D. A., <i>Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period</i>, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-03166-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-03166-0">0-520-03166-0</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <i>Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes</i>, Cambridge, Massachusetts, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99135-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-99135-4">0-674-99135-4</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_Historica" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca Historica">Library of History</a>, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58</i>, translated by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Oldfather" title="Charles Henry Oldfather">C. 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a> (mother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megara_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Megara (mythology)">Megara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omphale" title="Omphale">Omphale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a> (wives)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a> (children)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milk_of_Hera" title="Milk of Hera">Creation of Milky Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_at_the_crossroads" title="Hercules at the crossroads">Hercules at the crossroads</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Labours of Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_ancient_Rome" title="Hercules in ancient Rome">Hercules in ancient Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirt_of_Nessus" title="Shirt of Nessus">Shirt of Nessus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heracles_Papyrus" title="Heracles Papyrus">Heracles Papyrus</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shield_of_Heracles" title="Shield of Heracles">Shield of Heracles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Women" title="Catalogue of Women">Catalogue of Women</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Atl%C3%A0ntida" title="L'Atlàntida">L'Atlàntida</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(Euripides)" title="Herakles (Euripides)">Herakles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Women_of_Trachis" title="Women of Trachis">Women of Trachis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Seneca)" title="Hercules (Seneca)">Hercules Furens</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Oetaeus" title="Hercules Oetaeus">Hercules Oetaeus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Labours_of_Hercules" title="The Labours of Hercules">The Labours of Hercules</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Wagoner" title="Hercules and the Wagoner">Hercules and the Wagoner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Art</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_lion_of_Nemea_(Louvre_Museum,_L_31_MN_B909)" title="Hercules and the lion of Nemea (Louvre Museum, L 31 MN B909)">Hercules and the lion of Nemea</a></i> (5th century BCE)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_of_the_Forum_Boarium" title="Hercules of the Forum Boarium">Hercules of the Forum Boarium</a></i> (2nd century BCE)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lansdowne_Heracles" title="Lansdowne Heracles">Lansdowne Heracles</a></i> (c. 125)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Hercules,_Dura-Europos" title="Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos">Statue of Hercules, Dura-Europos</a> (c. 150–256)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farnese_Hercules" title="Farnese Hercules">Farnese Hercules</a></i> (216)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_slaying_Antaeus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules slaying Antaeus">Hercules slaying Antaeus</a></i> (c. 1460)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Deianira" title="Hercules and Deianira">Hercules and Deianira</a></i> (c. 1470)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Hydra_(Pollaiolo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiolo)">Hercules and the Hydra</a></i> (c. 1475)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Killing_the_Stymphalian_Birds" title="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds">Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds</a></i> (1500)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Antaeus" title="Hercules and Antaeus">Hercules and Antaeus</a></i> (c. 1500–1510)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Beccafumi)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Beccafumi)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (c. 1520–1525)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Antaeus_(Hans_Baldung)" title="Hercules and Antaeus (Hans Baldung)">Hercules and Antaeus</a></i> (1531)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Cacus" title="Hercules and Cacus">Hercules and Cacus</a></i> (1534)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way" title="The Origin of the Milky Way">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> (1575–1580)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Carracci)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Carracci)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (1596)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Omphale_(Rubens)" title="Hercules and Omphale (Rubens)">Hercules and Omphale</a></i> (1603)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Fighting_the_Nemean_Lion_(Zurbar%C3%A1n)" title="Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (Zurbarán)">Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Hydra_(Zurbar%C3%A1n)" title="Hercules and the Hydra (Zurbarán)">Hercules and the Hydra</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Separates_Mounts_Calpe_and_Abylla" title="Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla">Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_Hercules" title="The Death of Hercules">The Death of Hercules</a></i> (1634)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules%27s_Dog_Discovers_Purple_Dye" title="Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye">Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye</a></i> (1636)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Milky_Way_(Rubens)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Origin of the Milky Way (Rubens)">The Origin of the Milky Way</a></i> (1637)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Garden_of_the_Hesperides" title="Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides">Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides</a></i> (1638)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Landscape_with_Hercules_and_Cacus" title="Landscape with Hercules and Cacus">Landscape with Hercules and Cacus</a></i> (c. 1660)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Omphale_(Boucher)" title="Hercules and Omphale (Boucher)">Hercules and Omphale</a></i> (1732–1734)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertas_Americana" title="Libertas Americana">Libertas Americana</a> (1783)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sanctuary_of_Hercules_(B%C3%B6cklin)" title="The Sanctuary of Hercules (Böcklin)">The Sanctuary of Hercules</a></i> (1884)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Archer" title="Hercules the Archer">Hercules the Archer</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Achelous_and_Hercules" title="Achelous and Hercules">Achelous and Hercules</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twelve_Labors_of_Hercules_(Spafford)" title="The Twelve Labors of Hercules (Spafford)">The Twelve Labors of Hercules</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marian_Maguire" title="Marian Maguire">The Labors of Herakles</a></i> (2006–2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Erymanthian_Boar" title="Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar">Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Nemean_Lion_(Klein)" title="Hercules and the Nemean Lion (Klein)">Hercules and the Nemean Lion</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opera</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ercole_amante" title="Ercole amante">Ercole amante</a></i> (1662)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alcide_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcide (opera)">Alcide</a></i> (1693)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ercole_su%27l_Termodonte" title="Ercole su'l Termodonte">Ercole su'l Termodonte</a></i> (1723)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Admeto" title="Admeto">Admeto</a></i> (1727)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/La%C3%9Ft_uns_sorgen,_la%C3%9Ft_uns_wachen,_BWV_213" title="Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213">Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213</a></i> (1733)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Handel)" title="Hercules (Handel)">Hercules</a></i> (1744)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_nozze_d%27Ercole_e_d%27Ebe" title="Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe">Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe</a></i> (1747)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Choice_of_Hercules_(Handel)" title="The Choice of Hercules (Handel)">The Choice of Hercules</a></i> (1750)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercule_mourant" title="Hercule mourant">Hercule mourant</a></i> (1761)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Rouet_d%27Omphale" title="Le Rouet d'Omphale">Le Rouet d'Omphale</a></i> (1871)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9janire" title="Déjanire">Déjanire</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atl%C3%A1ntida_(opera)" title="Atlántida (opera)">Atlántida</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_vs._Vampires" title="Hercules vs. Vampires">Hercules vs. Vampires</a></i> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_Hercules" title="List of films featuring Hercules">Films</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Italian series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1958_film)" title="Hercules (1958 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Unchained" title="Hercules Unchained">Hercules Unchained</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goliath_and_the_Dragon" title="Goliath and the Dragon">Goliath and the Dragon</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Loves_of_Hercules" title="The Loves of Hercules">The Loves of Hercules</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Conquest_of_Atlantis" title="Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis">Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Haunted_World" title="Hercules in the Haunted World">Hercules in the Haunted World</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Valley_of_Woe" title="Hercules in the Valley of Woe">Hercules in the Valley of Woe</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fury_of_Hercules" title="The Fury of Hercules">The Fury of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules,_Samson_and_Ulysses" title="Hercules, Samson and Ulysses">Hercules, Samson and Ulysses</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_vs._Moloch" title="Hercules vs. Moloch">Hercules vs. Moloch</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Invincible" title="Hercules the Invincible">Hercules the Invincible</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_Rome" title="Hercules Against Rome">Hercules Against Rome</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_the_Sons_of_the_Sun" title="Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun">Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Hercules" title="The Triumph of Hercules">The Triumph of Hercules</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samson_and_His_Mighty_Challenge" title="Samson and His Mighty Challenge">Samson and His Mighty Challenge</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Tyrants_of_Babylon" title="Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon">Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Princess_of_Troy" title="Hercules and the Princess of Troy">Hercules and the Princess of Troy</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_the_Avenger" title="Hercules the Avenger">Hercules the Avenger</a></i> (1965)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other European<br />live-action</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Herakles_(film)" title="Herakles (film)">Herakles</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Against_the_Moon_Men" title="Hercules Against the Moon Men">Hercules Against the Moon Men</a></i> (1964)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">American films<br />live-action</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Warrior%27s_Husband" title="The Warrior's Husband">The Warrior's Husband</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Three_Stooges_Meet_Hercules" title="The Three Stooges Meet Hercules">The Three Stooges Meet Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film)" title="Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)">Jason and the Argonauts</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_New_York" title="Hercules in New York">Hercules in New York</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1983_film)" title="Hercules (1983 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Hercules" title="The Adventures of Hercules">The Adventures of Hercules</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(miniseries)" title="Jason and the Argonauts (miniseries)">Jason and the Argonauts</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Immortals_(2011_film)" title="Immortals (2011 film)">Immortals</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hercules" title="The Legend of Hercules">The Legend of Hercules</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(2014_film)" title="Hercules (2014 film)">Hercules</a></i> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Animated films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1995_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules (1995 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1997_film)" title="Hercules (1997 film)">Hercules</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_Zero_to_Hero" title="Hercules: Zero to Hero">Hercules: Zero to Hero</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_Xena_%E2%80%93_The_Animated_Movie:_The_Battle_for_Mount_Olympus" title="Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus">Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mighty_Hercules" title="The Mighty Hercules">The Mighty Hercules</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sons_of_Hercules" title="The Sons of Hercules">The Sons of Hercules</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mole_Men_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules">Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fire_Monsters_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules">Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_Against_the_Son_of_Hercules" title="Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules">Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules</a></i> (1962)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys" title="Hercules: The Legendary Journeys">Hercules: The Legendary Journeys</a></i> (1995) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Amazon_Women" title="Hercules and the Amazon Women">Hercules and the Amazon Women</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Lost_Kingdom" title="Hercules and the Lost Kingdom">Hercules and the Lost Kingdom</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Circle_of_Fire" title="Hercules and the Circle of Fire">Hercules and the Circle of Fire</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Underworld" title="Hercules in the Underworld">Hercules in the Underworld</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_the_Maze_of_the_Minotaur" title="Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur">Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur</a></i> (1994)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1998_TV_series)" title="Hercules (1998 TV series)">Hercules: The Animated Series</a></i> (1998) <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Arabian_Night" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules and the Arabian Night">Hercules and the Arabian Night</a>" (1999)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Hercules" title="Young Hercules">Young Hercules</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(miniseries)" title="Hercules (miniseries)">Hercules</a></i> (2005 miniseries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_(TV_series)" title="Atlantis (TV series)">Atlantis</a></i> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(comics)" title="Hercules (comics)">Comics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Marvel_Comics)" title="Hercules (Marvel Comics)">Hercules (Marvel Comics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(DC_Comics)" title="Hercules (DC Comics)">Hercules (DC Comics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(Radical_Comics)" title="Hercules (Radical Comics)">Hercules (Radical Comics)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_Heracles" title="The Return of Heracles">The Return of Heracles</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(1984_video_game)" title="Hercules (1984 video game)">Hercules</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Disney%27s_Hercules_(video_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney's Hercules (video game)">Disney's Hercules</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herc%27s_Adventures" title="Herc's Adventures">Herc's Adventures</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys#Video_game" title="Hercules: The Legendary Journeys">Hercules: The Legendary Journeys</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heracles_Chariot_Racing" title="Heracles Chariot Racing">Heracles Chariot Racing</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glory_of_Heracles_(video_game)" title="Glory of Heracles (video game)">Glory of Heracles</a></i> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Hercules in popular culture">Hercules in popular culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(franchise)" title="Hercules (franchise)">Hercules (franchise)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_(musical)" title="Hercules (musical)">Hercules</a></i> (2019 musical)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules" title="Pillars of Hercules">Pillars of Hercules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maczuga_Herkulesa" title="Maczuga Herkulesa">Maczuga Herkulesa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hercules%27_Club_(amulet)" title="Hercules' Club (amulet)">Hercules' Club</a></li> <li><i><a 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title="Destiny">Destiny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudaimonia" title="Eudaimonia">Eudaimonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euhemerism" title="Euhemerism">Euhemerism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunoia" title="Eunoia">Eunoia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebeia" title="Eusebeia">Eusebeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)" title="Golden mean (philosophy)">Golden mean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Rule" title="Golden Rule">Golden Rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_words_for_love" title="Greek words for love">Greek words for love</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demigod#Classical" title="Demigod">Hemitheos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubris" title="Hubris">Hubris</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">Interpretatio graeca</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katabasis" title="Katabasis">Katabasis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kleos" title="Kleos">Kleos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Know_thyself" title="Know thyself">Know thyself</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses_in_Greek_mythology" title="Metamorphoses in Greek mythology">Metamorphosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metempsychosis" title="Metempsychosis">Metempsychosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nympholepsy" title="Nympholepsy">Nympholepsy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paradoxography" title="Paradoxography">Paradoxography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_city-state_patron_gods" title="Greek city-state patron gods">Patron gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece" title="Pederasty in ancient Greece">Pederasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phronesis" title="Phronesis">Phronesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophrosyne" title="Sophrosyne">Sophrosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soter" title="Soter">Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divine_madness#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome:_theia_mania" title="Divine madness">Theia mania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)" title="Xenia (Greek)">Xenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Texts / <a href="/wiki/Ode" title="Ode">odes</a> /<br /><a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Epic_Cycle" title="Epic Cycle">Epic Cycle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aethiopis" title="Aethiopis">Aethiopis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cypria" title="Cypria">Cypria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iliupersis" title="Iliupersis">Iliupersis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Iliad" title="Little Iliad">Little Iliad</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nostoi" title="Nostoi">Nostoi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Telegony" title="Telegony">Telegony</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Theban_Cycle" title="Theban Cycle">Theban Cycle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Oedipodea" title="Oedipodea">Oedipodea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thebaid_(Greek_poem)" title="Thebaid (Greek poem)">Thebaid</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epigoni_(epic)" title="Epigoni (epic)">Epigoni</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alcmeonis" title="Alcmeonis">Alcmeonis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretalogy" title="Aretalogy">Aretalogy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Bibliotheca</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Women" title="Catalogue of Women">Catalogue of Women</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cyranides" title="Cyranides">Cyranides</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphic_maxims" title="Delphic maxims">Delphic maxims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derveni_papyrus" title="Derveni papyrus">Derveni papyrus</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dionysiaca" title="Dionysiaca">Dionysiaca</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Verses" title="Golden Verses"><i>Golden Verses</i> of Pythagoras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">Greek Magical Papyri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homerica" class="mw-redirect" title="Homerica">Homerica</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homeric_Hymns" title="Homeric Hymns">Homeric Hymns</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Interpretation_of_Dreams_(Antiphon)" title="Interpretation of Dreams (Antiphon)">Interpretation of Dreams</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myth_of_Er" title="Myth of Er">Myth of Er</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oneirocritica" title="Oneirocritica">Oneirocritica</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orphic_Hymns" title="Orphic Hymns">Orphic Hymns</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papyrus_Graecus_Holmiensis" title="Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis">Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sibylline_Books" title="Sibylline Books">Sibylline Books</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sortes_Astrampsychi" title="Sortes Astrampsychi">Sortes Astrampsychi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theogony" title="Theogony">Theogony</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Works_and_Days" title="Works and Days">Works and Days</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Religions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Antecedents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoan_religion" title="Minoan religion">Minoan religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_religion" title="Mycenaean religion">Mycenaean religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mycenaean_deities" title="List of Mycenaean deities">List of Mycenaean deities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_mythology" title="Paleo-Balkan mythology">Paleo-Balkan mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Proto-Indo-European mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East" title="Religions of the ancient Near East">Religions of the ancient Near East</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Expressions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atheism#Classical_antiquity" title="Atheism">Atheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henotheism#Hellenistic_religion" title="Henotheism">Henotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monotheism#Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Monotheism">Monotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytheism#Ancient_Greece" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">Hellenistic religions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Early Christianity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Christianization_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire">Christianization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_and_Ancient_Greek_philosophy" title="Christianity and Ancient Greek philosophy">Relationship with Greek philosophy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism#Late_Antiquity" title="Western esotericism">Esoteric</a> systems <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alchemy#Hellenistic_Egypt" title="Alchemy">Early alchemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnosticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermeticism" title="Hermeticism">Hermeticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoplatonism" title="Neoplatonism">Neoplatonism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_Judaism" title="Hellenistic Judaism">Hellenistic Judaism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God-fearer" title="God-fearer">God-fearers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syncretism" title="Syncretism">Syncretic</a> religions <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great_in_legend#Deified_Alexander" title="Alexander the Great in legend">Alexander</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_cult_of_Alexander_the_Great" title="Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great">Ptolemaic cult</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etruscan_religion" title="Etruscan religion">Etruscan religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Buddhism" title="Greco-Buddhism">Greco-Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome">Roman religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult" title="Roman imperial cult">Imperial cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)#Religious_issues" title="Julian (emperor)">Religious views of emperor Julian</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Mystery religions<br />and sacred mysteries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(region)" title="Arcadia (region)">Arcadian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries" title="Dionysian Mysteries">Dionysian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imbros" title="Imbros">Imbrian Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphism" title="Orphism">Orphism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries#Samothracian_Mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Samothracian Mysteries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/New_religious_movement" title="New religious movement">New religious movements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Discordianism" title="Discordianism">Discordianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feraferia" title="Feraferia">Feraferia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaianism" title="Gaianism">Gaianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)" title="Hellenism (modern religion)">Hellenism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Religious practice</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Worship <br />/ rituals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphidromia" title="Amphidromia">Amphidromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arotoi_Hieroi" title="Arotoi Hieroi">Arotoi Hieroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astragalomancy" title="Astragalomancy">Astragalomancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptes" title="Baptes">Baptes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cult_of_Artemis_at_Brauron" title="Cult of Artemis at Brauron">Cult of Artemis at Brauron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daduchos" title="Daduchos">Daduchos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_divination" title="Greek divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_funeral_and_burial_practices" title="Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices">Funeral and burial practices</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Funeral_oration_(ancient_Greece)" title="Funeral oration (ancient Greece)">Funeral oration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Greco-Roman mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero cult</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hero%C3%B6n" title="Heroön">Heroön</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierophany" title="Hierophany">Hierophany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieros_gamos" title="Hieros gamos">Hieros gamos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Hymns_in_ancient_Greek" title="Category:Hymns in ancient Greek">Hymns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incubation_(ritual)" title="Incubation (ritual)">Incubation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komos" title="Komos">Komos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nekyia" title="Nekyia">Nekyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omophagia" title="Omophagia">Omophagia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgia" title="Orgia">Orgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panegyris" title="Panegyris">Panegyris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">Sacrifice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice#Ancient_Greece" title="Animal sacrifice">Animal sacrifice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hecatomb" title="Hecatomb">Hecatomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)#Greek_sacrifice" title="Holocaust (sacrifice)">Holocaust</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libation#Ancient_Greece" title="Libation">Libation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharmakos" title="Pharmakos">Pharmakos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Votive_offering" title="Votive offering">Votive offering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece" title="Theatre of ancient Greece">Theatre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious<br />offices</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphictyonic_league" title="Amphictyonic league">Amphictyonic league</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archon_basileus" title="Archon basileus">Archon basileus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basilinna" title="Basilinna">Basilinna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerarai" title="Gerarai">Gerarai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiereia" title="Hiereia">Hiereia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierophant" title="Hierophant">Hierophant</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hierophylakes" title="Hierophylakes">Hierophylakes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iatromantis" title="Iatromantis">Iatromantis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanephoros" title="Kanephoros">Kanephoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystagogue" title="Mystagogue">Mystagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sibyl" title="Sibyl">Sibyl</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiasus" title="Thiasus">Thiasus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious<br />objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baetyl" title="Baetyl">Baetyl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_sculpture#Cult_images" title="Ancient Greek sculpture">Cult image</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chryselephantine_sculpture" title="Chryselephantine sculpture">Chryselephantine sculpture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xoanon" title="Xoanon">Xoanon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_terracotta_figurines" title="Greek terracotta figurines">Greek terracotta figurines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kernos" title="Kernos">Kernos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kykeon" title="Kykeon">Kykeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loutrophoros" title="Loutrophoros">Loutrophoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omphalos" title="Omphalos">Omphalos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panathenaic_amphora" title="Panathenaic amphora">Panathenaic amphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhyton" title="Rhyton">Rhyton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrificial_tripod" title="Sacrificial tripod">Sacrificial tripod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sceptre#Greco-Roman_world" title="Sceptre">Sceptre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thymiaterion" title="Thymiaterion">Thymiaterion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world" title="Magic in the Greco-Roman world">Magic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apotropaic_magic" title="Apotropaic magic">Apotropaic magic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curse_tablet" title="Curse tablet">Curse tablet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_divination" title="Greek divination">Divination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">Greek Magical Papyri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermeticism" title="Hermeticism">Hermeticism</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hermetica" title="Hermetica">Hermetica</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromancy#Antiquity" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philia_(Greco-Roman_magic)" title="Philia (Greco-Roman magic)">Philia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Festivals <br />/ feasts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Actia" title="Actia">Actia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adonia" title="Adonia">Adonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agrionia" title="Agrionia">Agrionia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphidromia" title="Amphidromia">Amphidromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthesteria" title="Anthesteria">Anthesteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apellai" title="Apellai">Apellai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apaturia" title="Apaturia">Apaturia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodisia" title="Aphrodisia">Aphrodisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrhephoria" title="Arrhephoria">Arrhephoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ascolia" title="Ascolia">Ascolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bendidia" title="Bendidia">Bendidia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boedromia" title="Boedromia">Boedromia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brauron" title="Brauron">Brauronia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buphonia" title="Buphonia">Buphonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalceia" title="Chalceia">Chalceia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meilichios" title="Meilichios">Diasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delia_(festival)" title="Delia (festival)">Delia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphinia" title="Delphinia">Delphinia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysia" title="Dionysia">Dionysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecdysia" title="Ecdysia">Ecdysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elaphebolia" title="Elaphebolia">Elaphebolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamelia" title="Gamelia">Gamelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halieia" title="Halieia">Halieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haloa" title="Haloa">Haloa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracleia_(festival)" title="Heracleia (festival)">Heracleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaea_(festival)" title="Hermaea (festival)">Hermaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieromenia" title="Hieromenia">Hieromenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kronia" title="Kronia">Kronia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenaia" title="Lenaia">Lenaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnesia_on_the_Maeander" title="Magnesia on the Maeander">Leucophryna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lykaia" title="Lykaia">Lykaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metageitnia" title="Metageitnia">Metageitnia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munichia_(festival)" title="Munichia (festival)">Munichia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oschophoria" title="Oschophoria">Oschophoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamboeotia" title="Pamboeotia">Pamboeotia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandia_(festival)" title="Pandia (festival)">Pandia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plynteria" title="Plynteria">Plynteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaieia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemaieia">Ptolemaieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyanopsia" title="Pyanopsia">Pyanopsia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skira" title="Skira">Skira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synoikia" title="Synoikia">Synoikia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soteria_(festival)" title="Soteria (festival)">Soteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tauropolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tauropolia">Tauropolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thargelia" title="Thargelia">Thargelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseia" title="Theseia">Theseia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thesmophoria" title="Thesmophoria">Thesmophoria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agon" title="Agon">Agon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panathenaic_Games" title="Panathenaic Games">Panathenaic Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhieia" title="Rhieia">Rhieia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Panhellenic_Games" title="Panhellenic Games">Panhellenic Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games" title="Ancient Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraean_Games" title="Heraean Games">Heraean Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythian_Games" title="Pythian Games">Pythian Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemean_Games" title="Nemean Games">Nemean Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isthmian_Games" title="Isthmian Games">Isthmian Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actia" title="Actia">Actia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Sacred places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_temple" title="Ancient Greek temple">Temples</a> /<br /> <a href="/wiki/Sanctuaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctuaries">sanctuaries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asclepieion" title="Asclepieion">Asclepieion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphinion" title="Delphinion">Delphinion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraeum" title="Mithraeum">Mithraeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron" title="Necromanteion of Acheron">Necromanteion of Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymphaeum" title="Nymphaeum">Nymphaeum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panionium" title="Panionium">Panionium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthenon" title="Parthenon">Parthenon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion" title="Ploutonion">Ploutonion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesterion" title="Telesterion">Telesterion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temenos" title="Temenos">Temenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis" title="Temple of Artemis">Temple of Artemis, Ephesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Zeus,_Olympia" title="Temple of Zeus, Olympia">Temple of Zeus, Olympia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oracles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphiareion_of_Oropos" title="Amphiareion of Oropos">Amphiareion of Oropos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aornum" title="Aornum">Aornum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claros" title="Claros">Claros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didyma" title="Didyma">Didyma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodona" title="Dodona">Dodona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyaneae" title="Cyaneae">Oracle of Apollo Thyrxeus at Cyaneae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptoion" title="Ptoion">Oracle of Apollo at Ptoion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikaros_(Failaka_Island)" title="Ikaros (Failaka Island)">Oracle of Artemis at Ikaros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Puerto_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa" title="El Puerto de Santa María">Oracle of Menestheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctuary_of_the_Great_Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanctuary of the Great Gods">Sanctuary of the Great Gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tegyra" title="Tegyra">Tegyra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mountains</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cretea" title="Cretea">Cretea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ida_(Crete)" title="Mount Ida (Crete)">Mount Ida (Crete)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ida_(Turkey)" title="Mount Ida (Turkey)">Mount Ida (Turkey)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Lykaion" title="Mount Lykaion">Mount Lykaion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olympus" title="Mount Olympus">Olympus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Caves</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Zeus,_Ayd%C4%B1n" title="Cave of Zeus, Aydın">Cave of Zeus, Aydın</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Pan_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Cave of Pan (disambiguation)">Caves of Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychro_Cave" title="Psychro Cave">Psychro Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vari_Cave" title="Vari Cave">Vari Cave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Islands</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Snake_Island_(Ukraine)" title="Snake Island (Ukraine)">Island of Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islands_of_Diomedes" title="Islands of Diomedes">Islands of Diomedes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Springs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castalian_Spring" title="Castalian Spring">Castalian Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippocrene" title="Hippocrene">Hippocrene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierian_Spring" title="Pierian Spring">Pierian Spring</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Athenian_sacred_ships" title="Athenian sacred ships">Athenian sacred ships</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paralus_(ship)" title="Paralus (ship)">Paralus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Salaminia" title="Salaminia">Salaminia</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elefsina" title="Elefsina">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiera_Orgas" title="Hiera Orgas">Hiera Orgas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanathos" title="Kanathos">Kanathos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Greece" title="Olympia, Greece">Olympia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Way" title="Sacred Way">Sacred Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Dionysus" title="Theatre of Dionysus">Theatre of Dionysus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#cef2e0;"><div id="Myths_and_mythology245" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Myths and <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">mythology</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Deities</a> <br />(<a href="/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods" title="Family tree of the Greek gods">Family tree</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_primordial_deities" title="Greek primordial deities">Primordial deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aether_(mythology)" title="Aether (mythology)">Aether</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananke" title="Ananke">Ananke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaos_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaos (mythology)">Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronos" title="Chronos">Chronos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus" title="Erebus">Erebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia" title="Gaia">Gaia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemera" title="Hemera">Hemera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyx" title="Nyx">Nyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phanes" title="Phanes">Phanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontus_(mythology)" title="Pontus (mythology)">Pontus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thalassa" title="Thalassa">Thalassa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)" title="Uranus (mythology)">Uranus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Titans" title="Titans">Titans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">First generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coeus" title="Coeus">Coeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crius" title="Crius">Crius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cronus" title="Cronus">Cronus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(Titan)" title="Hyperion (Titan)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iapetus" title="Iapetus">Iapetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnemosyne" title="Mnemosyne">Mnemosyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanus" title="Oceanus">Oceanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoebe_(Titaness)" title="Phoebe (Titaness)">Phoebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(mythology)" title="Rhea (mythology)">Rhea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(mythology)" title="Tethys (mythology)">Tethys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theia" title="Theia">Theia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themis" title="Themis">Themis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Second generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asteria" title="Asteria">Asteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraeus" title="Astraeus">Astraeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eos" title="Eos">Eos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimetheus" title="Epimetheus">Epimetheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leto" title="Leto">Leto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menoetius" title="Menoetius">Menoetius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metis_(mythology)" title="Metis (mythology)">Metis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Titan)" title="Pallas (Titan)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perses_(son_of_Crius)" title="Perses (son of Crius)">Perses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selene" title="Selene">Selene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Third generation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesperus" title="Hesperus">Hesperus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phosphorus_(morning_star)" title="Phosphorus (morning star)">Phosphorus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Twelve Olympians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hestia" title="Hestia">Hestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_water_deities" title="Greek water deities">Water deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_(deity)" title="Alpheus (deity)">Alpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceto" title="Ceto">Ceto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glaucus" title="Glaucus">Glaucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naiad" title="Naiad">Naiads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereid" class="mw-redirect" title="Nereid">Nereids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nereus" title="Nereus">Nereus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanids" title="Oceanids">Oceanids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phorcys" title="Phorcys">Phorcys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proteus" title="Proteus">Proteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_gods_(Greek_mythology)" title="River gods (Greek mythology)">River gods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scamander" title="Scamander">Scamander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaumas" title="Thaumas">Thaumas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triton_(mythology)" title="Triton (mythology)">Triton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Love deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Erotes10" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Erotes" title="Erotes">Erotes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anteros" title="Anteros">Anteros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eros" title="Eros">Eros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedylogos" title="Hedylogos">Hedylogos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotes#Himeros" title="Erotes">Himeros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymen_(god)" title="Hymen (god)"> Hymen/Hymenaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erotes#Pothos" title="Erotes">Pothos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aphroditus" title="Aphroditus">Aphroditus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philotes" title="Philotes">Philotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peitho" title="Peitho">Peitho</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">War deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adrestia" class="mw-redirect" title="Adrestia">Adrestia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alala" title="Alala">Alala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alke" title="Alke">Alke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphillogiai" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphillogiai">Amphillogiai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Androktasiai" title="Androktasiai">Androktasiai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bia_(mythology)" title="Bia (mythology)">Bia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deimos_(deity)" title="Deimos (deity)">Deimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyalius" title="Enyalius">Enyalius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enyo" title="Enyo">Enyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eris_(mythology)" title="Eris (mythology)">Eris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gynaecothoenas" class="mw-redirect" title="Gynaecothoenas">Gynaecothoenas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homados" title="Homados">Homados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hysminai" title="Hysminai">Hysminai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ioke_(mythology)" title="Ioke (mythology)">Ioke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keres" title="Keres">Keres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kratos_(mythology)" title="Kratos (mythology)">Kratos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kydoimos" title="Kydoimos">Kydoimos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ma_(goddess)" title="Ma (goddess)">Ma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machai" title="Machai">Machai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" title="Nike (mythology)">Nike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palioxis" title="Palioxis">Palioxis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Titan)" title="Pallas (Titan)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perses_(Titan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Perses (Titan)">Perses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)" title="Phobos (mythology)">Phobos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phonoi" title="Phonoi">Phonoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemos" title="Polemos">Polemos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proioxis" title="Proioxis">Proioxis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Chthonic_deities" title="Chthonic deities">Chthonic deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Psychopomps15" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Psychopomp" title="Psychopomp">Psychopomps</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charon" title="Charon">Charon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermanubis" title="Hermanubis">Hermanubis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanatos" title="Thanatos">Thanatos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angelos_(mythology)" title="Angelos (mythology)">Angelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabeiri" title="Cabeiri">Cabeiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)" title="Pluto (mythology)">Pluto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypnos" title="Hypnos">Hypnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keres" title="Keres">Keres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampad" class="mw-redirect" title="Lampad">Lampad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melino%C3%AB" title="Melinoë">Melinoë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zagreus" title="Zagreus">Zagreus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Health deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aceso" title="Aceso">Aceso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegle_(mythology)" title="Aegle (mythology)">Aegle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asclepius" title="Asclepius">Asclepius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiron" title="Chiron">Chiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darrhon" title="Darrhon">Darrhon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epione" title="Epione">Epione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebe_(mythology)" title="Hebe (mythology)">Hebe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygieia" title="Hygieia">Hygieia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iaso" title="Iaso">Iaso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paean_(god)" title="Paean (god)">Paean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panacea" title="Panacea">Panacea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telesphorus_(mythology)" title="Telesphorus (mythology)">Telesphorus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sleep deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Empusa" title="Empusa">Empusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epiales" title="Epiales">Epiales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypnos" title="Hypnos">Hypnos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasithea" title="Pasithea">Pasithea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oneiros" title="Oneiros">Oneiroi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Messenger deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angelia" title="Angelia">Angelia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arke" title="Arke">Arke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iris_(mythology)" title="Iris (mythology)">Iris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Trickster deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apate" title="Apate">Apate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Momus" title="Momus">Momus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Magic deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasipha%C3%AB" title="Pasiphaë">Pasiphaë</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Other major deities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anemoi" title="Anemoi">Anemoi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boreas" title="Boreas">Boreas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurus" title="Eurus">Eurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notus" title="Notus">Notus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephyrus" title="Zephyrus">Zephyrus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azone" title="Azone">Azone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysaor" title="Chrysaor">Chrysaor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eileithyia" title="Eileithyia">Eileithyia</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes">Erinyes</a> (Furies)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Muses" title="Muses">Muses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemesis" title="Nemesis">Nemesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_(god)" title="Pan (god)">Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelus" title="Zelus">Zelus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Heroes / <br />heroines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Individuals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abderus" title="Abderus">Abderus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actaeon" title="Actaeon">Actaeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Great" title="Ajax the Great">Ajax the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Lesser" title="Ajax the Lesser">Ajax the Lesser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Academus" title="Academus">Akademos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphiaraus" title="Amphiaraus">Amphiaraus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphitryon" title="Amphitryon">Amphitryon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antilochus" class="mw-redirect" title="Antilochus">Antilochus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autolycus" title="Autolycus">Autolycus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon">Bellerophon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouzyges" title="Bouzyges">Bouzyges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadmus" title="Cadmus">Cadmus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysippus_of_Elis" title="Chrysippus of Elis">Chrysippus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyamites" title="Cyamites">Cyamites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daedalus" title="Daedalus">Daedalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diomedes" title="Diomedes">Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Dioscuri</a> (Castor and Polydeuces)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echetlus" title="Echetlus">Echetlus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleusis_(mythology)" title="Eleusis (mythology)">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erechtheus" title="Erechtheus">Erechtheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunostus_(hero)" title="Eunostus (hero)">Eunostus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)" title="Ganymede (mythology)">Ganymede</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hector" title="Hector">Hector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icarus" title="Icarus">Icarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iolaus" title="Iolaus">Iolaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason" title="Jason">Jason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meleager" title="Meleager">Meleager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)" title="Narcissus (mythology)">Narcissus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)" title="Nestor (mythology)">Nestor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus">Orpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otrera" title="Otrera">Otrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandion_(hero)" title="Pandion (hero)">Pandion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peleus" title="Peleus">Peleus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelops" title="Pelops">Pelops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penthesilea" title="Penthesilea">Penthesilea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triptolemus" title="Triptolemus">Triptolemus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar_hunt#The_hunters" title="Calydonian boar hunt">Calydonian hunters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epigoni" title="Epigoni">Epigoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_against_Thebes" title="Seven against Thebes">Seven against Thebes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">Oracles</a> <br />/ seers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aesacus" title="Aesacus">Aesacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleuas" title="Aleuas">Aleuas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphiaraus" title="Amphiaraus">Amphiaraus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amphilochus_I_of_Argos" title="Amphilochus I of Argos">Amphilochus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ampyx" title="Ampyx">Ampyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anius" title="Anius">Anius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asbolus" title="Asbolus">Asbolus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakis" title="Bakis">Bakis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branchus" title="Branchus">Branchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calchas" title="Calchas">Calchas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnus" title="Carnus">Carnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carya_of_Laconia" title="Carya of Laconia">Carya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassandra" title="Cassandra">Cassandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elatus" title="Elatus">Elatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennomus" title="Ennomus">Ennomus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimenides" title="Epimenides">Epimenides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halitherses" title="Halitherses">Halitherses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helenus" class="mw-redirect" title="Helenus">Helenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iamus" title="Iamus">Iamus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idmon" title="Idmon">Idmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manto_(mythology)" title="Manto (mythology)">Manto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melampus" title="Melampus">Melampus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mopsus" title="Mopsus">Mopsus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munichus" title="Munichus">Munichus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phineus" title="Phineus">Phineus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyidus" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyidus">Polyeidos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polypheides" title="Polypheides">Polypheides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibyl" title="Sibyl">Sibyls</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cimmerian_Sibyl" title="Cimmerian Sibyl">Cimmerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl" title="Cumaean Sibyl">Cumaean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphic_Sibyl" title="Delphic Sibyl">Delphic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erythraean_Sibyl" title="Erythraean Sibyl">Erythraean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellespontine_Sibyl" title="Hellespontine Sibyl">Hellespontine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Sibyl" title="Libyan Sibyl">Libyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persian_Sibyl" title="Persian Sibyl">Persian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrygian_Sibyl" title="Phrygian Sibyl">Phrygian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samian_Sibyl" title="Samian Sibyl">Samian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telemus" title="Telemus">Telemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theiodamas" title="Theiodamas">Theiodamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theoclymenus" title="Theoclymenus">Theoclymenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Other <br /> mortals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aegeus" title="Aegeus">Aegeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegisthus" title="Aegisthus">Aegisthus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andromache" title="Andromache">Andromache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)" title="Andromeda (mythology)">Andromeda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigone" title="Antigone">Antigone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augeas" title="Augeas">Augeas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briseis" title="Briseis">Briseis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassiopeia_(mother_of_Andromeda)" title="Cassiopeia (mother of Andromeda)">Cassiopeia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creon_(king_of_Thebes)" title="Creon (king of Thebes)">Creon of Thebes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chryseis" title="Chryseis">Chryseis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrysothemis" title="Chrysothemis">Chrysothemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damocles" title="Damocles">Damocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deidamia_(daughter_of_Lycomedes)" title="Deidamia (daughter of Lycomedes)">Deidamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deucalion" title="Deucalion">Deucalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electra" title="Electra">Electra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eteocles" title="Eteocles">Eteocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europa_(consort_of_Zeus)" title="Europa (consort of Zeus)">Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordias" title="Gordias">Gordias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecuba" title="Hecuba">Hecuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen of Troy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellen" title="Hellen">Hellen</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermione_(mythology)" title="Hermione (mythology)">Hermione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippolyta" title="Hippolyta">Hippolyta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iphigenia" title="Iphigenia">Iphigenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismene" title="Ismene">Ismene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jocasta" title="Jocasta">Jocasta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laius" title="Laius">Laius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_peasants" title="Lycian peasants">Lycian peasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)" title="Lycaon (king of Arcadia)">Lycaon</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Maenad" title="Maenad">Maenads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memnon" title="Memnon">Memnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messapian_shepherds" title="Messapian shepherds">Messapian shepherds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midas" title="Midas">Midas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrrha" title="Myrrha">Myrrha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoptolemus" title="Neoptolemus">Neoptolemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niobe" title="Niobe">Niobe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes">Orestes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_(mythology)" title="Paris (mythology)">Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patroclus" title="Patroclus">Patroclus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penelope" title="Penelope">Penelope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philomela" title="Philomela">Philomela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(son_of_Agenor)" title="Phoenix (son of Agenor)">Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polybus_of_Corinth" title="Polybus of Corinth">Polybus of Corinth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polynices" title="Polynices">Polynices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">Priam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procne" title="Procne">Procne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrrha_(mythology)" title="Pyrrha (mythology)">Pyrrha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telemachus" title="Telemachus">Telemachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troilus" title="Troilus">Troilus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld" title="Greek underworld">Underworld</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Entrances to <br /> the underworld</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acheron" title="Acheron">Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cocytus" title="Cocytus">Cocytus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eridanos_(river_of_Hades)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eridanos (river of Hades)">Eridanos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethe" title="Lethe">Lethe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegethon" title="Phlegethon">Phlegethon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styx" title="Styx">Styx</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lakes/swamps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acherusia" title="Acherusia">Acherusia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Avernus" title="Lake Avernus">Avernus Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lerna" title="Lerna">Lerna Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Caves</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Matapan" title="Cape Matapan">Cape Matapan</a></li> <li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Avernus" title="Lake Avernus">Lake Avernus</a></li> <li>Cave at <a href="/wiki/Heraclea_Pontica" title="Heraclea Pontica">Heraclea Pontica</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Charoniums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Charonium at <a href="/wiki/Aornum" title="Aornum">Aornum</a></li> <li>Charonium at <a href="/wiki/Acharaca" title="Acharaca">Acharaca</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion" title="Ploutonion">Ploutonion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Ploutonion at <a href="/wiki/Acharaca" title="Acharaca">Acharaca</a></li> <li>Ploutonion at <a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ploutonion_at_Hierapolis" title="Ploutonion at Hierapolis">Ploutonion at Hierapolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Necromanteion (necromancy temple)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Necromanteion_of_Acheron" title="Necromanteion of Acheron">Necromanteion of Acheron</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elysium" title="Elysium">Elysium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus" title="Erebus">Erebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asphodel_Meadows" title="Asphodel Meadows">Fields of Asphodel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortunate_Isles" title="Fortunate Isles">Isles of the Blessed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_underworld#Mourning_Fields" title="Greek underworld">Mourning Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tartarus" title="Tartarus">Tartarus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Judges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeacus" title="Aeacus">Aeacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minos" title="Minos">Minos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhadamanthus" title="Rhadamanthus">Rhadamanthus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Campe" title="Campe">Campe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Residents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anticlea" title="Anticlea">Anticlea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dana%C3%AFdes" title="Danaïdes">Danaïdes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurydice" title="Eurydice">Eurydice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ixion" title="Ixion">Ixion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocnus" title="Ocnus">Ocnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmoneus" title="Salmoneus">Salmoneus</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Shade_(mythology)" title="Shade (mythology)">Shades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus">Sisyphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantalus" title="Tantalus">Tantalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titans_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Titans (mythology)">Titans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tityos" title="Tityos">Tityos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Katabasis#Trip_into_the_underworld" title="Katabasis">Visitors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus">Orpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirithous" title="Pirithous">Pirithous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche" title="Cupid and Psyche">Psyche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Symbols/objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bident" title="Bident">Bident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap_of_invisibility" title="Cap of invisibility">Cap of invisibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charon%27s_obol" title="Charon's obol">Charon's obol</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Animals, daemons, <br />and spirits</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascalaphus_(son_of_Acheron)" title="Ascalaphus (son of Acheron)">Ascalaphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceuthonymus" title="Ceuthonymus">Ceuthonymus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurynomos_(daemon)" title="Eurynomos (daemon)">Eurynomos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menoetius" title="Menoetius">Menoetius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;;width:1%">Mythical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_Greek_mythological_figures" title="Lists of Greek mythological figures">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_deities" title="List of Greek deities">Deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_creatures" title="List of Greek mythological creatures">Mythological creatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mortals_in_Greek_mythology" title="List of mortals in Greek mythology">Mortals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_Greek_mythological_figures" title="List of minor Greek mythological figures">Minor figures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Trojan_War_characters" title="List of Trojan War characters">Trojan War characters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Minor spirits</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daemon_(classical_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daemon (classical mythology)">Daemon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agathodaemon" title="Agathodaemon">Agathodaemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cacodemon" title="Cacodemon">Cacodaemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudaemon_(mythology)" title="Eudaemon (mythology)">Eudaemon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">Nymph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyr" title="Satyr">Satyr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Beasts /<br /> creatures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centaur" title="Centaur">Centaur</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centaurides" title="Centaurides">Centaurides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ichthyocentaur" title="Ichthyocentaur">Ichthyocentaur</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclops" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclops">Cyclops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragons_in_Greek_mythology" title="Dragons in Greek mythology">Dragon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drakaina_(mythology)" title="Drakaina (mythology)">Drakaina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorgon" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorgon">Gorgon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpy" title="Harpy">Harpy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecatonchires" class="mw-redirect" title="Hecatonchires">Hecatonchires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippocampus_(mythology)" title="Hippocampus (mythology)">Hippocampus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrois" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyrois">Horses of Helios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamia" title="Lamia">Lamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)" title="Phoenix (mythology)">Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Python_(mythology)" title="Python (mythology)">Python</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siren_(mythology)" title="Siren (mythology)">Siren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla">Scylla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charybdis" title="Charybdis">Charybdis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphinx" title="Sphinx">Sphinx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon">Typhon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Captured <br />/ slain by <br /> <a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">heroes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calydonian_boar" class="mw-redirect" title="Calydonian boar">Calydonian boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus">Cerberus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerynian_Hind" class="mw-redirect" title="Cerynian Hind">Cerynian Hind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cretan_Bull" title="Cretan Bull">Cretan Bull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crommyonian_Sow" title="Crommyonian Sow">Crommyonian Sow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erymanthian_boar" title="Erymanthian boar">Erymanthian boar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalkotauroi" title="Khalkotauroi">Khalkotauroi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Lernaean Hydra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes" title="Mares of Diomedes">Mares of Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur" title="Minotaur">Minotaur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemean_lion" title="Nemean lion">Nemean lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthrus" title="Orthrus">Orthrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_birds" title="Stymphalian birds">Stymphalian birds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talos" title="Talos">Talos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teumessian_fox" title="Teumessian fox">Teumessian fox</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tribes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer)" title="Achaeans (Homer)">Achaeans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazons" title="Amazons">Amazons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthropophage" title="Anthropophage">Anthropophagi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bebryces" title="Bebryces">Bebryces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicones" title="Cicones">Cicones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curetes_(tribe)" 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