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Labours of Heracles Arranged in a cycle of 12, usually as follows: 1. The slaying of the Nemean lion, whose skin he thereafter wore; 2. The slaying of the nine-headed Hydra of Lema; 3. The capture of the elusive stag of Arcadia; 4. The capture of the wild boar of Mt. Erymanthus; 5. The cleansing, in a single day, of the cattle stables of King Augeas of Elis; 6. The shooting of the monstrous man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marshes; 7. The capture of the mad bull that terrorized the island of Crete; 8. The capture of the man-eating mares of King Diomedes of the Bistones; 9. The taking of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons; 10. The seizing of the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, who ruled the island Erytheia in the far west; 11. The bringing back of the golden apples kept at the world's end by the Hesperides; and 12. The fetching up from the lower world of the triple-headed dog Cerberus, guardian of its gates |
