1. The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
Hercules
The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
Speaker: 陳永安
Instructor: 簡士捷老師

2. A story of a man
Mortal  immortal

3. 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

4. Worship
As a hero
with a chthonic libation
As a god
upon an altar

5. Controversy: Hero or god!?
Odysseus encounters Heracles in Hades:
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"
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...

6. Timeline Birth and childhood Youth Labours of Hercules
The twelve tasks
Birth and childhood
Youth
Labours of Hercules
Further adventures
Omphale
Hylas
Rescue of Prometheus
Heracles’ Constellation
Laomedon of Troy
Death
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.
Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon.
Steal the apples of the Hesperides (He had the help of Atlas to pick them after Hercules had slain Ladon).
Capture and bring back Cerberus.

7. Birth and childhood Son of Zeus + Alcmene
Breast-feeding by Hera[plot by Athena]
Poison snakes

8. 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]

9. Slay the Nemean Lion
Inpenetratable skin
Killed by his own hand 1

10. Slay the nine- headed Lernaean Hydra
Poison blood 2

11. 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 3

12. Capture the Erymanthian Boar
Fast gigantic boar
Trapped it with the trap hidden in the snow 4

13. Clean the Augean stables in a single day
Uncleaned for over 30 years have over cattles
Make holes and draw river to clean it 5

14. 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 6

15. Capture the Cretan Bull
Cretan king deceived Poseidon
Mad white cow can blow fire and make lots of disaster 7

16. 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 8

17. To fetch Hippolyta's girdle of gold
Queen of amazons 9

18. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon
Giant had three bodies that were connected by one waist 10

19. 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. 11

20. To bring Cerberus from Tartarus.
Tartarus= hell
Cerberus = 3head dog + snake as tail
Cerberus guard the hells gate.
Poison saliva 12

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Rescue of Prometheus Saved while in the task
fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides

25. 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

26. 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.

27. Thanks for your attention

28. 分工表
Hercules
Atalanta
查資料
陳秉峰
黃柏瑋
Ppt
柯泓宇
林書儒 報告
陳永安
翁珮瑜 書面
李盈嫺