Unfortunately, Hercules prevailed upon him to let him have a drink. Pholus offered him a cooked meat meal but tried to keep the wine corked. So Hercules dawdled and spent time hedonistically enjoying the finer things in life in the company of one of his friends, a centaur, Pholus, son of Silenus. Even bringing the frightening tusked beast live might not have been so hard, but every task had to be an adventure. Walters Art Museum/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0Ĭapturing the Erymanthian Boar to bring it to Eurystheus would not have proved particularly challenging to our hero. There he learned that Eurystheus denied the labor because Hercules had not accomplished it on his own, but only with the help of Iolaus. Having accomplished his second labor, Hercules returned to Tiryns (but only to the outskirts) to report to Eurystheus. By dipping them Hercules made his weapons lethal. Having dispatched with the head, Hercules dipped his arrows in the gall of the beast. Hercules was often pitted against chthonic dangers.) (An aside: Typhon, the Nemean Lion's father, was a perilous underground force, too. When all 8 mortal necks were headless and cauterized, Hercules sliced off the immortal head and buried it underground for safety, with a stone on top to hold it down. Searing prevented the stump from regenerating. Ignoring the nipping at his heels and calling upon Iolaus for help, Hercules told Iolaus to burn the neck the instant Hercules took a head off. Wrestling with the beast proved difficult because, while trying to attack one head, another would bite Hercules' leg with its fangs. If ever one of the other, mortal heads was cut, from the stump would immediately spring forth 2 new heads. The Lernaean Hydra monster had 9 heads 1 of these was immortal. There had to be something special about the beast that made normal mortals unable to control it. Of course, Hercules couldn't simply shoot an arrow at the beast or pummel him to death with his club. Taking his nephew, Iolaus (a surviving son of Hercules' brother Iphicles), as his charioteer, Hercules set out to destroy the beast. For his second labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to rid the world of this predatory monster. In those days there was a beast living in the swamps of Lerna that ravaged the countryside devouring cattle. Eurystheus also ordered a large bronze jar to hide himself in.įrom then on, Eurystheus' orders would be relayed to Hercules through a herald, Copreus, son of Pelops the Elean.Įthan Doyle White/Wikimedia Commons/CC by SA-4.0 He ordered the hero henceforth to deposit his offerings and to keep himself beyond the city limits. When, upon his return, Hercules appeared at the gates of Tiryns, Nemean beast pelt on his arm, Eurystheus was alarmed. He soon overcame the beast by choking it.
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Such a creature was Typhon, the father of the Nemean lion.Įurystheus sent Hercules to bring back the skin of the Nemean lion, but the skin of the Nemean lion was impervious to arrows or even the blows of his club, so Hercules had to wrestle with it on the ground in a cave. Etna where their occasional struggles cause the earth to shake and their breath is the molten lava of a volcano. Eventually, they were subdued and buried alive under Mt. Some of the giants had a hundred hands others breathed fire. The Typhon was one of the giants who rose up against the gods after they had successfully suppressed the Titans. Hercules' motive for performing them is to gain permission from Eurystheus to return to the Peloponnesian City of Tiryns.Īlbrecht Altdorfer/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 1.0
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