Presentation 2

Hercules
MariahSummer and
RavenTownsley
Hercules
Hercules father was Zeus. He
told his son that you can be a
fu! god Hercules said yes but
Hera didn't like Hercules
because Zeus cheated on
Hera and Zeus was married
to Hercules mom .Hercules
mother was a mortal .
Slay the
Nemean Lion!
Hercules stayed in the cave and waited
for the lion but the lion was told to ki!
Hercules. But Hercules didn't see him
because he was disguise as a mortal. But
then Hercules found him and ki!ed it.
Slay the nine headed Lernean Hydra
They had to slay the nine
headed Lernean Hydra. It
was very difficult because
if they chopped of a head or
more then more would
grow back.
Ceryneian hind
Eurystheus had given
Hercules a task hoping to
incite Artemis anger at
Hercules for his desecration
of her scared animal.As she
was returning with the
hind,Hercules encountered
Artemis and her brother
APOLLO.
Erymanthian
boar
Hercules had visited Chiron to gain
advice on how to catch the boar, and
Chiron had told him to drive into the
thick snow, and ki! him with the sword
which sets this labour.
Augean stable
The judge took his seat. Hercules ca!ed the son of
Augeas to testify.the boy swore that his father had
agreed to give Hercules a reward. The judge ruled
that Hercules wi! have to be paid. In a range,
Augeas ordered both his own son and Hercules to
leave his kingdom at once.
The Stymphalian birds
Some version of the legend
say that Stymphalian birds
where vicious man- eaters.
The second century A.D.
travel writer, Pausanias,
trying to discover what
kind of birds they were.
The Cretan bull
The Athenian hero Theseus
tied up some loose ends of
the story. He ki!ed the
Cretan bu! at marathon.
Later, he sailed to Crete,
found his way to the center
of the Labyrinth, and ki!ed
the Minotaur.
The horses of
Diomedes
A$er Hercules had captured the
cretan bu!, Eurystheus sent him to
get the man- eating mares of
Diomedes, the king of Thracian.
The belt of
Hippolytus
The amazon lived apart %om men,
and if they ever give birth to children,
they kept only the females and reared
them to be warriors like themselves.
The cattle of Geryon
Hercules made it to the edge
of the lonian sea, with the
end of his journey fina!y in
sight. Hera,however, was
not about to let the hero
accomplish this labour. She
was making this one harder.
The apples of the Hesperides
Hercules' first problem was
that he didn't know we're the
garden was. He journeyed
through Libya, Egypt, Arabia,
and Asia,having adventures
along the way there. He soon
found the garden and saw a
beast. He had to fight the beast.
The beast was dead a$er a!.
Cerberus
The most dangerous labour of a! was the
12th and final one. Eurystheus orders
Hercules to go to the underworld and
kidnap the beast ca!ed Cerberus(or
Kerberos).and slice his necks off
The story of Hercules