the labors of hercules the whole story?
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I will be very brief.  Hercules, the great Greek hero (Heracles was his Greek name), was driven mad by the goddess Hera, and in his madness he slew his entire family.  In atonement he was made to perform twelve heroic tasks, imposed upon him by Eurystheus, king of Tyrins.\n\n1. Slay the Nemean Lion, a beast with impenetrable skin. He choked the beast to death.\n\n2. Slay the Hydra, a moster with many heads.  As he cut off each head, two grew in its place.  His friend Iolaus cauterized each would with a torch so they could not regenerate.\n\n3. Slay the Erymanthian Boar.  He slew a lot of things, come to think of it.\n\n4. Catch the Cerynitian Hind, a deer with golden antlers.  He chased it for a year.\n\n5. Scare away the Stymphalian Birds.  They were really mean birds.\n\n6. Clean the Augean Stables in one day.  He diverted a river and let the flood do the hard work.\n\n7. Capture the Cretan Bull.  He let it go at Marathon.\n\n8. Tame the Horses of Diomedes.  They ate human flesh.\n\n9. Retrieve the Girdle of the Amazons.  He ended up fighting a war to win a corset.\n\n10. Capture the Cattle of Geryon, a three headed giant.\n\n11. Fetch the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.  For this he had to travel to the end of the earth.\n\n12. Descend into the Underworld and return with Cerberus, the three headed dog.\n\nHeracles had tons more adventures, but I think I'll let you look those up yourself. vale.
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it,s a long story....and i dont know how to say it...but\nyou can read it by yourself...from the wikipedia web page...below are the links....hope it will answer your question :)
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I need know a little more about the story to answer this question.
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The story of the "journey of magi" is taken fron the Gospel according to St.Matthew in the New Testament of the Bible. Three wise men of the east noticed a new star in the sky. It announces the birth of Jesus Christ. They decided to undertake a journey in order to have a glimpse of the new born baby and to pay him their respects. Since it was a spiritual quest so the journey was very ardous and hazardous.\nThe birth of Jesus Christ led to the death of the old faith and the birth of a new faith. But the Journey they undertook was only 'satisfactory' and not ideal in every respect. So they looked for another death that would lead to a genuine regeneration of life and faith.\nThe poem is a dramatic monologue by one of the three wise men.
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I have no clue as to the story you've spoken of. \nIf you began to research, and have begun to read the bible in search of this tale.. why not continue reading the bible, and get the true answers you're seaching for. You may not even be aware of the right question.. but your answer awaits you, in God's word.
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Yes, it's incredibly difficult to read & I didn't enjoy it. Admittedly, I used Cliff Notes to help me.\n\nBook summaries\nBook 1: Ten years into the war, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl, Achilles withdraws from the war in anger \nBook 2: Odysseus motivates the Greeks to keep fighting; Catalogue of Ships, Catalogue of Trojans and Allies \nBook 3: Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat \nBook 4: The truce is broken and battle begins \nBook 5: Diomedes has an aristea and wounds Aphrodite and Ares \nBook 6: Glaucus and Diomedes greet during a truce, Hector returns to Troy \nBook 7: Hector battles Ajax \nBook 8: The gods withdraw from the battle \nBook 9: Agamemnon retreats: his overtures to Achilles are spurned \nBook 10: Diomedes and Odysseus go on a spy mission \nBook 11: Paris wounds Diomedes, and Achilles sends Patroclus on a mission \nBook 12: The Greeks retreat to their camp and are besieged by the Trojans \nBook 13: Poseidon motivates the Greeks \nBook 14: Hera helps Poseidon assist the Greeks \nBook 15: Zeus stops Poseidon from interfering \nBook 16: Patroclus borrows Achilles' armour, enters battle, kills Sarpedon and then is killed by Hector \nBook 17: The armies fight over the body and armour of Patroclus \nBook 18: Achilles learns of the death of Patroclus and receives a new suit of armour \nBook 19: Achilles reconciles with Agamemnon and enters battle \nBook 20: The gods join the battle; Achilles tries to kill Aeneas \nBook 21: Achilles fights with the river Scamander and encounters Hector in front of the Trojan gates \nBook 22: Achilles kills Hector and drags his body back to the Greek camp \nBook 23: Funeral games for Patroclus \nBook 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre \n[edit]\nAfter the Iliad: the end of the war and the returns home\nAlthough certain events subsequent to the funeral of Hector are foreshadowed in the Iliad, and there is a general sense that the Trojans are doomed, a detailed account of the fall of Troy is not set out by Homer. The following account comes from later Greek and Roman poetry and drama.\n\nAchilles fights and kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Aethiopean king Memnon. Very soon he is killed on the battlefield by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his vulnerable heel. (See Achilles' Heel). After his death, Ajax and Odysseus feud over who should keep his armour. They submit their disagreement to an impromptu court and Odysseus is awarded the armour. Ajax subsequently goes mad and slaughters his livestock, believing they are the Greek commanders. He then kills himself in shame.\n\nThe Amazons come to join the battle. Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited by the god Heracles because it was prophesied the war could not be won without his bow.\n\nOdysseus devises a plan to take the city. He has his men build a large, hollow wooden horse, and then he and twenty others hide inside. The Greek ships withdraw out of sight of Troy, apparently admitting defeat, and leave behind the horse, purportedly as an offering to Poseidon for good winds on the return trip. The Trojans take this inside the great walls of Troy, and then feast and celebrate their victory and the war's end. At night, Odysseus and the soldiers creep out of the horse and open the gates to the other Greeks who have sailed back under cover of night. The city is sacked, and in some accounts burned for seven years.\n\nPriam is killed. According to one tradition, Hector's wife Andromache throws their son Astyanax and herself from the ramparts to save them from slavery. According to another, Astyanax was killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, to ensure that Hector's son could not seek vengeance for his father's death against Achilles' son. Andromache became Neoptolemus' concubine, later to marry Helenus, Hector's brother. A Roman tradition held that Aeneas escaped wi
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http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ba9712bp.htm\n\nCheck out the link above. What I have come to believe like many others from studying the subject of bronze age natural disastors is that often stories and myths tie very well with geological events, such as tsunamis (parting of the sea for moeses and the jews) earthquakes etc. Stories in the bible can be traced back to earlier myths which existed before the bible was written. I would not beleive hat the bible describes word for word as throught he ages, stories have been altered to provide an exaggerated picture of true events to capture the imagination of the reader/pupil. How many times have you exaggerated a story just so it sounds better to the listner? Now apply 2000years to that and you know what I mean. Anyway the above link is an interesting read.
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The story begins with the King's court mingling around the palace. People chat, play games, and take strolls around the court. Dancers appear from the corners and start dancing around the people. They watch in wonder while continuing their daily activities. They grow still and the dancers take their places near the King and start their show. They jump high in the air, Purple, blue, yellow, green, and lavendar. They sit at the front and rise up, dancing and waving their sheer skirts around them. As they conclude, they run and bow to the King. The court looks on with pride.\n\nThe King jumps out of his throne and yells that he is bored! The court is shocked and the dancers run to the corner in fright. The King, followed by his Chancellor and Accountant, is angry. He demands a diversion. The jester grabs a dictionary and the court gathers around him, not knowing what diversion meant. They see it is something to set someone's mind off of the daily chore. A musician says he'd thought that was what they'd been doing everyday. Everyone nods in agreement. The King says it is still boring, the same thing everyday, he wants someone to tell him a fascinating story. Again the jester gets the dictionary and looks up fascinating. To mesmerize and entertain, the crowd nods in agreement. The King asks for the best storyteller. The court gathers round and discusses who the best storyteller is. They unanimously agree it is Scheherazade, and point to her. She is surprised and walks over to the King, followed by her loyal porter. She tells the King that she will tell the story of Aladdin. The crowd cheers in excitement. She says that she will need the help of the entire court to enact the story, excluding the King, who will just sit back and watch. Scheherazade begins with "Once upon a time", and the King yells that he will banish her because he’d heard that before. Scheherazade says that every story begins with once upon a time, and he says he knew that and sits down.\n\nNow, the story begins…….A young boy of 17 lived in China with his poor old mother and camel. Scheherazade begins, she then says that they need someone to play Aladdin. The Vizier’s son asks if Aladdin is smart, and Scheherazade replies with a "not necessarily." The Grand Vizier asks if Aladdin is brave, and Scheherazade again replies with a not necessarily. Then, the cute musician pops up from between the dancers and asks if Aladdin is cute. Scheherazade replies with a big yes! The musician says he can do cute, and Scheherazade says he will be Aladdin. Now, they need someone to be Aladdin’s mother. Scheherazade looks around and chooses the cook. The cook says she is not old enough to be his mother, and as Scheherazade says that age is all in the mind, the dancers gather around the cook to dress her like a mother. Scheherazade sets the first scene at Aladdin’s home. Everyone leaves except Aladdin and his mother. Aladdin’s mother sits on a chair at home while Aladdin sleeps. She needs food for their breakfast, but they have nothing. She sees a fruitseller and stops her to ask for food. There is not much Aladdin’s mother can buy. She talks with the fruitseller about her and her son, and that he was asleep. The fruitseller says that Aladdin is a good for nothing boy who sleeps all day and should be out looking for food. His mother naturally comes to his defense and says that he is a wonderful boy who deserves his sleep. The fruitseller agrees to give his mother one banana, considering that she never forget the fruitseller in the future. As they speak, two beggars come up and steal an apple from the fruitseller’s basket. She turns around and starts running after the beggars. One of them jumps over her head as she is bending down. She looks up and sees the other beggar with the apple and runs after her. She falls, slips, and drops her other fruit. The little beggar runs up the staircase with the fruitseller following closely.\n\nAl
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I think the story would still be in because I don't believe it is truly fictional.  In my opinion, the story is based upon the fall of Atlantis.  We were living in harmony because we were connected directly to God/Source through these axiatonal lines in our energy bodies.\n\nOur energy bodies are comprised of energy lines of force.  The sanskrit word for this is nadis. (accupuncturists tap into these lines in our bodies, facilitating the flow of energy).  These energy axiatonal lines allowed for us to be able to create our desires.  But somewhere along the way, we became too powerful (some psychics say we were able to harness the power in crystals and blew ourselves up)...when this happened, we lost the axiatonal line connection....our direct connection go God/Source....lost our ability to create our desires at will.....or as the story goes, we ate from the tree and got kicked out of Eden.....again, we did it to ourselves....we screwed up....not God getting ticked and kicking us out.\nOnly now do we have the ability to reconnect those axiatonal lines.....you may have heard of DNA Activation...start reconnecting and you can start making things happen as long as it's good for all.
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Does this mean that the first man in the holy book was the bastard son of a goddess? Who got her pregnant. I like this story. Was it one of the other Gods?
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A & E special on Greek Mythology.\nhttp://www.royalty.nu/legends/Hercules.html
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There are no definite facts as to who invented the games.  One story goes that the Ancient games were nothing more than the funeral rites to the dead king Pelops.\n\nAnother says that the games originated when Hercules won a foot-race at Olympia, and then gave the order that the same race take place every four years.  This is an interesting story, as Pausanias says that initially the only event was a race.\n\nAs for the number of competetors...I don't think there was a limit.  The only limits imposed were that the athlete had to speak Greek, was 'young' and had been training for 10 months.
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um... it's kind of a long story... so why don't you see the movie Troy and read the Illiad and the oddessy? or look up an abridged version...
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Duh????\n\nRead the title, you'll find the answer, or better yet read the story...
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Basic Story:\nSome say there are two Eroses, the elder who is the early god, and the other who is the eternally young son of Aphrodite. The "elder" Eros was the cause of the birth of the race of immortal gods and goddesses. The "younger" Eros is the one depicted as a winged boy, the son of Aphrodite, considered to be both the most beautiful and the youngest of the gods. \nBut even in this form, kids grown up. Problems ensue when Eros (called Cupid in this story) falls in love with Psyche. His radiance is such that for her own safety, he insists that she must never look upon his face, and he only visits her at night. At first, she's cool with this, but her sisters and family insist that her husband must be a grotesque and dangerous monster. Finally, to shut them up, one night she lights a lamp and sees his glorious beauty, which doesn't blast her but does make her tremble so hard she shakes the lamp. A few drops of hot oil dribble on her beloved, burning him, and he flies away from her in physical pain compounded by the pain of knowing she doubted him. \nHis mom, Aphrodite, is angry over the injury and over the concealed relationship. While Cupid recovers, Aphrodite hopes to get Psyche out of the way permanently by making life extraordinarily difficult for her daughter-in-law. This takes the form of various potentially deadly tasks such as dropping by to get some beauty lotion from Persephone in the Underworld, and, while you're out, Psyche, could you pick up some bottled water from the River of the Dead (the Styx)? \nBut Cupid eventually recovers, comes to her rescue, and they marry. As is appropriate, the God of Love gets a happy-ever-after. \nSome Major Temple Sites:\nHe had a sanctuary on Mount Helion
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What do u think????\nTell me...\nThe whole thing was initiated because of a woman, u could say that it was an excuse but it was the wick that begining the fire.\nThe rest is part legend part history.\nThanks to Homero for the wonderfuls  "Odyssey" and "Iliada".
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Are you thinking of doing a paper on the gods?\nDon't ever sell these unscientific accounts short. Edward Furlong (not the actor) broadcast a two part series on the CBC AM 'Ideas' program in January, 1990 entitled The Immortals. Do your best to obtain either a recording or a transcript of this two part series. He covers five pre-Christ mythologies surrounding the Middle East. Believe me, his narrated collections will figuratively blow your mind.\nIf anything, it will certainly help you look at mythology from a different perspective.