Eurystheus again hid in his pot and wanted to sacrifice the bull to Hera, but she refused it due to her hate of Heracles. His task was to capture an enormous bull that the king of Crete was all too happy to be rid of. Heracles startled the birds into flight with a bronze rattle (Athena's idea) and shot them down with the arrows poisoned by the hydra's blood.įor this Labor, Heracles went to the island of Crete. Heracles' sixth labor was to kill the monstrous birds that lived in a marshy area. As suggested by Athena, Heracles rerouted a river to wash away the years of accumulated dung. Heracles' task was to clean the Augean Stables - a humiliating and disgusting task. When Heracles succeeded and carried the beast back to Mycenae, Eurystheus hid himself in a large storage jar in fear.Īugeas had several thousand heads of immortal cattle that were kept in stables that had not been cleaned in many years. He was able to capture and bring her to Mycenae.Įurystheus ordered Heracles to capture the Erymanthian Boar alive. Since Heracles did not want to anger Artemis by killing the hind, he chased after the hind for a year until she was exhausted. The Ceryneian Hind was a doe with golden antlers that was sacred to Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He dipped his arrowheads in the hydra's poisonous blood.Ī hind is a doe, or female deer. When Heracles cut off the main head, he buried it and covered it with a great rock. New heads could not grow from the cauterized wounds. After Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaos burned the stump with a torch. Heracles was able to defeat the Lernaean Hydra with the help of his nephew Iolaos. Whenever one head was cut off, two more heads would grow in its place, making the number of heads increase. The hydra was a serpentine monster with multiple heads. Heracles defeated the Nemean Lion by strangling it with his super strength. The Nemean Lion was a ferocious beast that had a pelt that could not be pierced by sword or arrow. For a more extensive project, students can write descriptions of each one. Have students create a chart that identifies and visualizes each of the different labors using the traditional storyboard layout. Heracles is most famous for the Twelve Labors he completed in penance for the murder of his family.
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