CLSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sea Monster, Bronze Age, Omphale
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Cercopes: a bunch of dwarfs, they spoted hercules. Hercules wakes up noices things are missing and is mad. Follows tracks and catches up with them prety quickly. Ties them upside down on poles: they start laughing and hercules quesions them, they tell him that they are given a prophecy from oracle to beware the black botom man. Either hercules is black botom man because of hairy but or. Ancient greek word black is also what they call tan: they all start laughing, hercules cuts them loose and they eat around the camp, changes them into apes (zeus so they don"t die soon) Nessis is geing rowdy with his wife. Hercules gets bow and arrow and shoots him. Nessis says sorry and says to the wife take this cloak, if you ever feel hercules has wandering eyes, put the cloak and he will fall back in love with you.
