They were living happily together in Thebes until King Creon was killed. Zeus Hangs Hera in the Sky As punishment for her attempt to overthrow him, Zeus seized Hera and hung her in the sky by golden chains. Hera wailed in pain all night, but no one would help her out of fear of Zeus. While other say Hera threw Hephaestus off Olympus because he was born deformed.
Mythology is confusing. Hera then sent serpents to kill him in his cradle, but Hercules strangled them both. He was notorious for getting himself into trouble because of his temper.
In gratitude, Creon, king of Thebes offered his eldest daughter, Megara, to the hero. Hercules and Megara got married and had three strong sons. The family lived happily together. Hercules Dies By Poison As their marriage progressed, Deianira eventually became jealous of a young maiden whom she thought had captured Hercules interest. Hercules known in Greek as Heracles or Herakles is one of the best-known heroes in Greek and Roman mythology.
Then Heracles took a phial of the poison he had milked from the Hydra's fangs, and dipped his arrows in it, noting how ironic it was that his labours had made him more formidable. One of Geryon's bodies went down, and lolled at his side like a wilting flower. Then Heracles dispatched another, so he looked like a half-peeled banana.
Heracles deposited the cattle in Argos, having herded them through Italy, France and Spain. Immediately Eurystheus sent him away again, setting him two truly impossible final tasks, which no mortal man could hope to accomplish, for he had been advised by Hera: to fetch back Cerberus, the three-headed hound of hell from Hades, but first to bring him the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
For the first time, Zeus feared Heracles would not succeed. These ancient apples were a wedding gift to Hera from Gaia, her grandmother, in a garden that no mortal could enter, protected by the mightiest dragon-snake of them all, quite unkillable. But Zeus sent wise Athena to help him. Heracles avoided the garden and paid a visit to Atlas instead. He is the Titan who holds the sky up to stop it falling on men's heads.
Heracles stood on the top of the nearest mountain and offered to relieve Atlas of his burden for a short time if he would fetch the apples of the Hesperides.
Atlas was only too pleased to take a break from his long task. He lowered the sky on to Heracles' bowed neck and fetched the apples without difficulty, reaching down from a stupendous height so the dragon did not notice.
Heracles prepared to return the sky but Atlas refused to take it. I will be back, but in about years. Heracles ran off. We had an agreement," shouted the Titan. Then Heracles went to the underworld to fetch back Cerberus, but Cerberus was nowhere to be found. Since the ghosts of the Nemean Lion, and Hydra and Geryon, had preceded Heracles, all the denizens of the underworld were terrified of him and fled at his approach.
Heracles marched into Hades' palace and saw the fearsome hound cowering behind his master's throne. Heracles asked for the dog to be handed over to him.
Hades agreed on condition that he overpower him without weapons and to bring him back immediately. Heracles wrestled the dog and carried him to Eurystheus, who was so terrified of the beast that he hid in a storage jar: "Take him back. Take him back," he whimpered. Finally Heracles was cleansed of the crime of infanticide and decided to seek a second wife. First he went to Oechalia in Euboea to seek the hand of Iole.
But her father, Eurytus, remembered the fate of Megara's children and refused his daughter's hand, calling Heracles a child-murderer. Heracles went away but swore his undying enmity, promising Eurytus that one day he would be back to sack his proud, walled city. Heracles found a more amenable match in Deianeira, a princess of Calydon. Deianeira was his kind of woman. A sister of the great hero Meleager, she drove a chariot and was expert in the arts of war.
But she already had a suitor, Achelous, greatest of the river gods of Greece. Three times Achelous came to ask for her hand in marriage. First he arrived in the form of a bull. The second time he arrived as a shimmering serpent. Deianeira did not fall for him on either occasion. Then he came to her in his true form: a bull with a human face and a single horn like a unicorn, with a long shaggy beard that streamed with clear spring water.
Deianeira prayed to the gods that she would never have to welcome such a creature into her bed. But Achelous was a powerful god and it would be unwise to disappoint him. When Heracles arrived and also sought Deianeira's hand, her father was overjoyed and willingly accepted his suit.
But Achelous challenged his rival to a wrestling match. Heracles had not wrestled an immortal god before and Achelous was able to change his shape. The bull-man became a writhing serpent-man with slippery scales and a long saw-toothed dorsal fin. Heracles could not get a grip on him and even when he did manage to get him in an arm-lock, Achelous refused to yield, knowing that Heracles could never kill him, although he could kill Heracles, eventually.
And Deianeira looked on in mounting trepidation. But Heracles refused to give up. He grabbed Achelous by his single horn and using all his strength he broke it off. Achelous cried out in pain and returned to his normal form, a man-faced bull with just a stump where his horn had been.
Only then did he yield. He allowed Heracles to take Deianeira, saying he would no longer stand in his way and pleading for his horn back. Heracles married Deianeira, but at the wedding banquet, the waiter stumbled and spilled wine on him. Heracles cuffed him over the head, but he had been drinking and was so strong that he smashed the poor boy's brains in. Once again he was exiled for accidental manslaughter. He was given refuge in Trachis, but as the exiles made their way there, they had to cross a river.
There are numerous sources that show him marrying Hera's daughter, Hebe, after he ascends to Mount Olympus. Homer: Odyssey xi. Some scholars believe that Hebe is just an extension of Hera. This would mean that Herakles is actually marrying Hera. Some extend this even further by saying that since Hera is a maternal figure to him at points in his life, he is symbolically marrying his mother. After Herakles and Hebe are married, Hera is said to have performed adoption ceremonies Diodorus Siculus: iv.
Hera is the one that is responsible for these twelve labors to be placed upon him. Even though she ultimately plays a part in his death, she has also saved his life. This is an interesting contradiction. Hera appears to be malevolent and persecuting. Hera's Malevolence When Herakles is still a baby, Hera sends two serpents to destroy him.
Herakles, with strength obviously unusual for a baby, strangles the snakes Pindar: Nemean Odes.
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