Help!!!!-anyone know hercules?

Question

Help-anyone know hercules?
does anyone know the summary of an event or story that Hercules is involved in?
(not the movie Hercules)

-mythology stories, anyone?

Answer 1

go to www.mythman.com it is the best mythology website ever!!!!
i got a 100 on my project. but make sure you site your sources!!!

Answer 2

Hercules is the Latin name used in Rome for the divinity corresponding to the Greek mythological hero Heracles (or Herakles). Hercules is the son of Jupiter, the Roman counterpart to the Greek god Zeus, and the mortal Alcmena. He was made to perform twelve great tasks, called The Twelve Labours of Hercules and became a god.

Myths of Hercules
The Romans adopted the Greek version of Heracles' life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking Hercules with the geography of the Western Mediterranean.

In Roman mythology, Acca Larentia was Hercules' mistress. She was married to Tarutius, a wealthy merchant. When he died, she gave his money to charity. In another version, she was the wife of Faustulus

Answer 3

Hercules, Greek hero

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hûr´kylēz´´, Heracles, or Herakles (both: hĕr´klēz´´) , most popular of all Greek heroes, famous for extraordinary strength and courage. Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, made love to both Zeus and her husband on the same night and bore two sons, Hercules (son of Zeus) and Iphicles (son of Amphitryon). Hercules incurred the everlasting wrath of Hera because he was the child of her unfaithful husband. A few months after his birth Hera set two serpents in his cradle, but the prodigious infant promptly strangled them.

When he was a young man, Hercules defended Thebes from the armies of a neighboring city, Orchomenus, and was rewarded with Megara, daughter of King Creon. But Hera later drove Hercules insane, and in his madness he killed his wife and children. After he had recovered his sanity, he sought purification at the court of King Eurystheus of Tiryns for 12 years. During those years Hercules performed 12 arduous labors: he killed the Nemean lion and the Hydra; caught the Erymanthian boar and the Cerynean hind; drove off the Stymphalian birds; cleaned the stables of Augeas; captured the Cretan bull and the horses of Diomed; made off with the girdle of the Amazon queen Hippolyte; killed Geryon; captured Cerberus; and finally took the golden apples of Hesperides.

Answer 4

Kill the lion of Nemea.

Kill the nine-headed Hydra.

Capture the Arcadian Stag.

Kill the wild boar of Erymanthus.

Clean the Augean stables.

Kill the carnivorous birds of Stymphalis.

Capture the wild bull of Crete.

Capture the man-eating mares of Diomedes.

Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons.

Capture the oxen of Geryon.

Take the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides.

Bring Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades, to the surface world.

Answer 5

Hercules was first and Egyptian demi-god, Then the Greeks stole him and the Roman stole him from the Greeks. One of the most noted quest that Hercules was noted for what his search with Jason for the Golden Fleeces...............

Answer 6

When Hercules was a baby 2 serpents crawled in to his crib he took one in each hand and choked them to death

Answer 7

Hercules was the Roman name for the greatest hero of Greek mythology -- Heracles. Like most authentic heroes, Heracles had a god as one of his parents, being the son of the supreme deity Zeus and a mortal woman. Zeus's queen Hera was jealous of Heracles, and when he was still an infant she sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. Heracles was found prattling delighted baby talk, a strangled serpent in each hand.
When he had come of age and already proved himself an unerring marksman with a bow and arrow, a champion wrestler and the possessor of superhuman strength, Heracles was driven mad by Hera. In a frenzy, he killed his own children. To atone for this crime, he was sentenced to perform a series of tasks, or "Labors", for his cousin Eurystheus, the king of Tiryns and Mycenae. By rights, Hercules should have been king himself, but Hera had tricked her husband Zeus into crowning Eurystheus instead.
In manhood, Hera made Hercules insane by burning down his house and killing his wife and children. When Hercules recovered his sanity, he sought the help from the oracle of Delphi. The oracle told him he must serve his cousin Eurystheus, King of Argos, for 12 years. Hoping to destroy Hercules, Eurystheus set him 12 supposedly impossible tasks, but the hero completed them all.
The 12 labors of Hercules were (1) strangling the Nemean Lion that terrorized the valley of Nemea. Hercules killed the lion by thrusting his fist down its throat; (2) striking off the many heads of the poisonous water snake Hydra of Lerna, Cancer joined in on the battle against Hercules; (3 and 4) delivering alive to Eurystheus the terrifying Erymanthian boar and the Arcadian stag, sacred pet of Artemis; (5) killing the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalis; (6) cleaning in one day the stables of Augeas, King of Elis, which contained 3,000 oxen and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleaned the stables by turning two rivers to flood the stables; (7) capturing and bearing on his shoulders to Mycenae the white Cretan bull, sire of the Minotaur; (8) capturing the man-eating mares of Diomedes (a Thracian king and son of the war god Ares) and feeding them the flesh of Diomedes; (9) fetching for Eurystheus' daughter the girdle of the Amazon queen, Hippolyte; (10) killing the three-headed monster Geryon, along with his giant herdsman Eurytion and the two-headed dog Orthrus all in order to capture Geryon's oxen; (11) freeing Prometheus and temporarily bearing the weight of the world for Atlas, who went to fetch for him the golden apples of the Hesperides; (12) descending to the underworld to bring the three-headed dog Cerberus to its master, Hades.
After Hercules completed his service to Eurystheus, he took part in the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece.
Hercules died when his second wife accidentally put poison on his robe. She thought that Hercules was being unfaithful and poured a magic potion on his robe that was suppose to restore his love for her. The poison burned his skin, causing him great pain. He tore at his flesh but the potion could not be removed.

Answer 8

No, he was a fictional character, but I know his supposed father Zeus and he looks nothing like his pictures. Zeus had a daughter Aphrodite out of wedlock with Dione.

Answer 9

i admire the two yet I want Xena. Xena has a extra exciting tale and who would not prefer to work out a woman carry out a little tumbles and somersaults, lands on the floor and motives an earthquake? ^_^

Answer 10

You're talking about The Nutty Professor,right? Yeah he was the fat kid was The Professors little brother(or nephew) who started farting at the table as his Grandmother started chanting " Hercules,Hercules,Hercules!"

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