6/26/2023 0 Comments 12 labours of hercules wendy99![]() It would keep his popular younger cousin far away from him and his land for a long time. What a lucky break! Surely he would come up with ten impossible tasks. Hercules arrived at the palace of King Eury and gave him the message from the Oracle. If serving his cousin King Eury for ten years was a path to that end, then that is what he would do. After all, was he not the strongest man on earth – the son of a god? Yet Hercules felt he needed to somehow pay for his sins. When Hercules heard this answer, he knew it was his choice to do what the Oracle said. She knew that he would come up with ten very difficult, even impossible, tasks. She knew that King Eury wanted nothing more than to be rid of his stronger, more popular younger cousin. During this time, said the Oracle, King Eury would give him ten impossible tasks to do.įor you see, the Oracle at Delphi could see into the hearts of men. To pay for his sins, Hercules must, for ten years, serve his cousin Eurystheus (we will call him “Eury”), King of a nearby land. When the Oracle was asked a question, she often spoke in riddles and it was hard to know what she was saying. Only the Oracle could give an answer of what Hercules could do to make up for what he did. She was the most famous prophet in the land. ![]() His friend Theseus, another young hero, pleaded with Hercules to visit the Oracle at Delphi. He sunk into a grief so deep that he felt he could not go on. When the spell was over and Hercules saw what he had done, he was stunned. Under her spell, Hercules went mad and killed his wife and sons. But Hera, set on crushing the happiness of Hercules, cast a spell over the young man. Soon Hercules won the heart of the King’s daughter. The King of Thebes was able to rule again, and the grateful King heaped many honors on the young hero. Hercules chased the very last invader away. When Hercules grew up and became a young man, he drove away enemy invaders who had taken over a city-state next to his own, a kingdom called Thebes. But the super-strong baby crushed the snakes with his bare hands. When Hercules was a baby, she sent two snakes into his crib. Whenever Hera thought about it, it made her furious. And as wife of Zeus, you can be sure that Hera was not happy that her husband was father to a child by another woman. Since his one parent was a god and his mother was a mortal human, Hercules was a “demi-god.” Yet being a demi-god did not protect Hercules from one powerful danger – the goddess Hera. What the young Hercules did not know was that his father was Zeus, the god of thunder, and the most powerful of all gods.
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