CAS CL 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mount Erymanthos, Mount Helicon, Sthenelus
18 Mar 2017
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The birth of herakles: home: tiryns, born: thebes, mother (alkmene) & father (amphitryon) exiled b/c they accidentally killed. Contest w/ hera: hera (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d (cid:373)ost of the hardships herakles" goes through, hera sent two snakes to kill herakles & his twin, but he strangled them (showed that he was the stronger of the two) Wilderness sojourn: alkmene left herakles in a meadow outside of thebes where athena picked him up. Prometheus: nessos centaur who escaped the riot & ultimately kills herakles w/ his own poison, herakles captured the boar & brought it to mycenae, hind of mount keryneia in the arcadian highlands (also pre-olympian. Instead of antaios, herakles wrestled w/ triton or nereus. 181: the tree is guarded by ladon (serpent) & atlas" daughters, the. Dio(cid:373)edes (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t e(cid:374)ough & a(cid:271)deros (cid:449)as eate(cid:374) too: bull of minos, theseus killed it, herakles brought it back to mycenae, but it escaped & went to.
