HERCULE

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The Greatest
Hero of Greece

HERCULES:
The Son of Zeus

HERCULES:
The Strongest Man Who
Ever Lived

 Superior strength evidence

since infancy
Strangled both at once, the
two giant snakes that
attacked him and his halfbrother, Iphicles, in their
nursery
Killed the legendary
Thespian lion of the
Cithaeron woods, taking its
skin as a cloak
Unintentionally kills one of
his teachers not knowing his

HERCULES:
Tragic Family Life

 Married
Princess
Megara and
had 3 children

Goddess Hera used magic to

make Hercules insane, and he
kills his wife and children

HERCULES:
The 12 Labors

#1: Kill the lion of Nemea

#2: Kill the Hyrdra
#3: Capture the sacred golden-horned
stag of Artemis and bring it back
alive
#4: Capture a giant bore
#5: Clean the stables of King Augeas in
a day

#7: Capture the beautiful wild bull of

Minos
#8: Capture the flesh-eating horses of
Diomedes
#9: Retrieve the girdle of Hippolyta,
queen of the Amazons
#10: Capture the cattle of Geryon
#11: Steal the Golden Apples of the
Hesperides

HERCULES:
His Other Adventures

Defeated Antaeus and

rescued King
Laomedons daughter,
who was being
sacrificed to a sea
serpent.
Punished
by Zeus to
be the
slave of
Queen
Omphale of

Defeated Pluto and

brings back the wife of
his friend Admetus.

Wrestled and won

against the River
God Acheelos and
won the hand in
marriage of
Deianira

HERCULES:
His Mortal Death