CLAS 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lerna, Cretan Bull, Augeas
10 Nov 2016
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Semi-divine or near divine origin (usually dad = zeus) but mortal. Quests requiring overcoming great odds and help from gods. Iphikles herakles anger of hera birth of eurystheus. Rst wife = megara, daughter of creon, king of thebes. Hera manipulates this, making another child be born rst (eurystheus) Hera causes herakles to go crazy kills megara and kids goes to delphi. Oracle says to truly purify self, go to tiryns, serve eurystheus for 12 years. The 12 labors: nemean lion, pretty much impenetrable, wrestled the lion, kills him by strangling him, hydra of lerna: helped by ilaus, iphikles" son, cerynean hind (deer), sacred to artemis, (lives in arcadia, erymanthian boar; mt.
