HERCULES
The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
Speaker: 陳永安
Instructor: 簡士捷老師
A story of a man
MORTAL  IMMORTAL
Hercules
Ἡρακλῆς
= Hēra[Hera]+kleos [glory]
 Son of:
• Zeus + Alcmene
 Signature:
• lion skin + club
 Know as:
• Strength
• Courage
• Ingenuity
• sexual prowess
with both sex
• Play with kids
 Greatest Greek
hero
Worship
•
As a hero
• with a chthonic libation
•
As a god
• upon an altar
Controversy: Hero or god!?
Odysseus encounters Heracles
in Hades:
And next I caught a glimpse of
powerful Heracles—
His ghost I mean: the man himself
delights
in the grand feasts of the deathless
gods on high...
Around him cries of the dead rang
out like cries of birds
scattering left and right in horror as
on he came like night...
Critics
• Ancient critics:
• interrupts the vivid and complete
description
• Friedrich Solmsen:
• "once people knew of Heracles'
admission to Olympus, they would not
tolerate his presence in the
underworld"
Timeline
• Birth and childhood
• Youth
• Labours of Hercules
• Further adventures
• Omphale
• Hylas
• Rescue of Prometheus
• Heracles’ Constellation
• Laomedon of Troy
• Death
The twelve tasks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Slay the Nemean Lion.
Slay the nine-headed Lernaean Hydra.
Capture the Golden Hind of Artemis.
Capture the Erymanthian Boar.
Clean the Augean stables in a single day.
Slay the Stymphalian Birds.
Capture the Cretan Bull.
Steal the Mares of Diomedes.
Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta, Queen of
the Amazons.
10. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon.
11. Steal the apples of the Hesperides (He
had the help of Atlas to pick them after
Hercules had slain Ladon).
12. Capture and bring back Cerberus.
Birth and childhood
• Son of Zeus +
Alcmene
• Breast-feeding by
Hera[plot by Athena]
• Poison snakes
Youth
• Kill his music tutor
• Visit two nymphs
pleasure / virtue
• Married a princess
Megara
• Got mad by Hera’s
curse
• Killed his own child
• Start his atonement
[12 tasks]
Slay the Nemean Lion
Inpenetratable skin
Killed by his own hand
Slay the nineheaded Lernaean
Hydra
Poison blood
Capture the Golden
Hind of Artemis.
Catch Golden hind for
Eurystheus
Yet Apollo and Artemis
were unhappy
So tricked Eurystheus
and released Hind
infront of him and blem
Eurystheus of acting
too slow faild to catch
the hind
Capture the
Erymanthian Boar
Fast gigantic boar
Trapped it with the trap
hidden in the snow
Clean the Augean
stables in a single
day
Uncleaned for over 30
years have over 1000
cattles
Make holes and draw
river to clean it
Slay the
Stymphalian Birds
Man eating birds with
copper like feather
The bell give by Athena,
frightened all birds fly
into the sky
And shoot them down
and the rest never
return
Capture the Cretan
Bull
Cretan king deceived
Poseidon
Mad white cow can
blow fire and make lots
of disaster
Steal the Mares of
Diomedes
Man eating horse
Podagros「迅疾」
Lampon「閃耀」
Xanthos「金黃」
Deinos「恐怖」
Roger Lancelyn Green :
claimed the horses
were used in Trojan
War
To fetch Hippolyta's
girdle of gold
Queen of amazons
Obtain the cattle of
the monster Geryon
Geryon:
Giant had three bodies
that were connected by
one waist
To fetch the golden
apples of the Hesperides
Prometheus told Hercules his
predicament,
Hercules saved Prometheus.
In turn, Prometheus told
Hercules that Atlas, has the
apple
Tricked Atlas get the apple.
To
bring Cerberus from Tartarus.
Tartarus= hell
Cerberus = 3head dog
+ snake as tail
Cerberus guard the
hells gate.
Poison saliva
Further adventures
King Eurytus of
Oechalia break the
promise and got killed
Make Iole his wife
Taked Iphitus as best
friend yet been killed
due to Hera cursed
again
Omphale
Due to Iphitus’s death
Hercules served the
Omphale for three years
as a slave and lover
Hercules start to like
woman’s clothes
Hylas
Fall in love with the prince
Hylas
And save many heroin's
Yet Hylas was kidnapped and
Hercules heart torn apart and
sent lots of time find him
Rescue of
Prometheus
Saved while in the task
fetch the golden apples of
the Hesperides
Laomedon of Troy
Before Trojan war:
Helping the Troy killed
a sea monster
Yet the king lied to him
At the Trojan war:
Hercules killed all his
sons and robbed Troy
Death
Deianderia: Hercules wife
Nessus try to abduct
Deianeria and get killed by
Hercules
Nessus tricked Deianeria that
his poison blood actually can
restore a man’s love
Many years later rumor +
Nessus blood killed Hurcules
by a poison cloth.
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