Hercules and the Nemean Lionįor his first task, Hercules was instructed by Eurystheus, to bring him the pelt of the Nemean lion, which was said to roam the hillsides around Nemea, taking women to his cave as hostages, where he would then lay in wait for their rescuers to appear. However, it seems Hercules, was no angel either, after killing his music teacher, Linus, he was sent away to tend cattle in the mountains and later, whilst living in Thebes, he fell in love with Megara, daughter of Creon, King of Thebes, whom he married.įor Hera, out of sight did not mean out of mind, with her super powers, she managed to get inside Hercules’ head and sent him completely crazy, where upon, in a fit of frenzy, Hercules murdered his wife and children. Zeus tried to smooth things over, he even went to the extent of changing the child’s name, who had been born Alcaeus but was given the name Hercules, meaning “Glorious gift of Hera” in Greek, in the hope it would mollify Hera but to no avail! It was bad enough for Hera, Zeus’s wife, to know she was married to an unfaithful old goat but to see the living proof of his infidelity, right under her nose every day, in the shape of Hercules, made her blood boil. Hercules was the result of an illicit affair, between Zeus, King of the Gods of Mount Olympus, and Alcmene, a mere mortal. Statue of Zeus and Hera, Albertina Square, Vienna, Austria
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