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	Ovid's Heroides IX: Notes and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After the twelve years were up, and the twelve labors were complete, Hercules went to the court of Eurytus, king of Oechalia, and sought to marry his daughter, Iole.
		She is also presumed to have been involved in the famous Twelve Labors which Eurystheus imposed on Hercules, and which helped to establish Hercules as a great hero.
		Twelve Labors of Hercules: Hercules was driven mad by Juno, and he killed his first wife, Megara, and his children.
	english.edgewood.edu /heroides/hero09n.htm (4763 words)

	The Twelve Labours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Twelve Labours (Greek: dodekathlos) of Heracles (Latin: Hercules) are a series of archaic episodes connected by a later continuous narrative, concerning a penance carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the Greek heroes.
		The establishment of a fixed cycle of twelve labours was attributed by the Greeks to an epic poem (now lost) written by a certain Peisandros of Rhodes, perhaps to be dated about 600 BCE (Burkert).
		In a 1970's story arc, Wonder Woman underwent her own twelve labors to demonstrate her fitness to rejoin the Justice League of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twelve_Labors (2210 words)

	Hercules (mythology) - MSN Encarta
		Hercules’ next labor was to capture alive a stag with golden horns and bronze hoofs that was sacred to Artemis, goddess of the hunt, and the fourth labor was to capture a great boar that had its lair on Mount Erímanthos.
		To fulfill the seventh labor Hercules brought to Eurystheus a mad bull that Poseidon, god of the sea, had sent to terrorize Crete (Kríti).
		The 12th and most difficult labor of Hercules was to bring back the three-headed dog Cerberus from the lower world.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570023/Hercules_(mythology).html (907 words)

	Invisibility - An African - Nigerian tale retold by Moyra Caldecott
		Twelve is a most potent number in any culture J.C. Cooper, in An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols (p.120), says that the Duodecad is a complete cycle.
		By the time the hunter has sought out the twelve types of tree he must know a lot about the forest.
		By the time he has gathered the bark and ground it and made the paste he has become so knowledgeable about nature and so in tune with its ways that he no longer stands out as an alien in the forest.
	www.spiritoftrees.org /folktales/caldecott/invisibility.html (312 words)

	Heracles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was, arguably, the greatest of the mythical Greek heroes, best known for his superhuman strength and many stories are told of his life.
		The most famous group of stories tell of The Twelve Labours of Herakles.
		Herakles successfully carried them all out, but Eurystheus was told by Hera to deem that two of the tasks had been failed due to Herakles being helped, and allocated two more, which Herakles also completed, making 12.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heracles (2025 words)

	Plato on Astrocartography
		Further, the twelve segments of the city must be made on the same lines as the division of the territory in general, and each citizen must have two houses, one nearer the center of the state and the other nearer the border.
		The descent to the underworld at Cape Taenarum (twelfth labor).
		Furthermore, the Taurus-Scorpio and the Gemini-Sagittarius axes are merged, a tangible expression of the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes.
	www.astroconsulting.com /FAQs/platoon.htm (3245 words)

	Herakles Numismatics, Inc.
		For the fourth labor, Herakles was given the task of capturing alive the fierce boar which ravaged the slopes of Mt. Erymanthius in Psophis, a city in north-east Arcadia.
		To accomplish his tenth labor, Herakles had to journey to the end of the earth in a goblet known as the 'Golden Cup of the Sun,' given to him by the sun god Helios.
		The most dangerous labor of all was the twelfth and final one, requiring Herakles to invade the Underworld and kidnap the beast known as Kerberos.
	www.herakles-inc.com /info.asp?page=TwelveLabors (2411 words)

	The Twelve Labors of Heracles
		To atone for this crime, he was sentenced to perform a series of tasks, or "Labors", for his cousin Eurystheus, the king of Mycenae.
		The next labor imposed on Heracles was to capture alive the fierce, enormous boar, which haunted the slopes of Mount Erymanthus.
		As his final Labor, Heracles was instructed to bring the hellhound Cerberus up from the infernal kingdom of Hades.
	members.megapipe.net /jstafford/heracles.htm (2207 words)

	Hercules
		The first labor imposed on Hercules was the slaying of the Nemean lion, a gigantic beast with a pelt impervious to both iron and stone.
		The Eighth Labor - The Mares of Diomedes
		The tenth labor was to be the capture of the immense herds of cattle owned by Geryon, who was a three-bodied and three-headed giant belived to be the strongest creature on earth.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/mmarassa/mythology/hercules.html (4399 words)

	XIX. a. Hercules. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
		Eurystheus enjoined upon him a succession of desperate adventures, which are called the “Twelve Labors of Hercules.”; The first was the fight with the Nemean lion.
		He returned carrying the dead lion on his shoulders; but Eurystheus was so frightened at the sight of it and at this proof of the prodigious strength of the hero, that he ordered him to deliver the account of his exploits in future outside the town.
		These were the apples which Juno had received at her wedding from the goddess of the Earth, and which she had intrusted to the keeping of the daughters of Hesperus, assisted by a watchful dragon.
	www.bartleby.com /181/191.html (2008 words)

	Hercules
		Heracles is obliged to perform labors, to undertake a great work, in somewhat the same sense that the alchemist undertook his task of the transformation of matter.
		The battle with the watersnake of Lerna half-sister of the Nemean Lion, spitefully chosen by Eurystheus as the object of Herakles' second labor as he knew that the Hydra would be yearning to avenge her relative's death (the Lion in 1st Labor).
		Upon completing his second labor, Herakles had acquired all of his famous armor with which he is usually depicted - the lion's skin, the poisoned arrows and the club that he made from the tree trunk that he had used to burn the Hydra's necks.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Hercules.html (10408 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - Elaboration of the Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Alice Bailey and Djwhal Khul - The Labors of Hercules - Elaboration of the Myth
		So he started off upon his career and, as the disciple under command of his soul, undertook the twelve labors, performing each of them in one of the zodiacal signs.
		We shall find in the third labor which Hercules performed, in the sign Gemini, that he was tested on this point and had to prove that he was justified in taking this step.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/hercules/herc1002.html (1626 words)

	The Labors of Herakles
		Nevertheless there is one aspect which all of the labors have in common (and which also defines becoming a god): each labor is an apparently impossible task—this, after all, is why Eurystheus assigns them to Herakles, since he supposes that Herakles will fail and die.
		Herakles’ second labor was to kill the Hydra of Lerna, a water-snake which Hera had raised to fight against him; the Hydra had nine tentacles with a head on the end of each.
		The fourth labor was to bring back alive the Erymanthian boar, a dangerous animal which lived in Arcadia on the mountain Erymanthos or by the river of the same name.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos7.htm (2158 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		Twelve, you see, has a lot to do with time and measurement, with beginnings and endings.
		Twelve also has a lot to do with the mystical, spiritual and mythological: there are twelve apostles, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve peers of Charlemagne, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve Olympian gods, and twelve labors of Hercules.
		Twelve represents a whole, a cycle, and when you get to twelve it's time to wrap things up.
	www.rpg.net /news+reviews/columns/archetypology30apr02.html (4095 words)

	Hercules / Heracles, from Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms
		When the labors he shall lay upon thee are accomplished, and when the rest of thy life is lived out, thou shalt become one of the immortals." Hercules, on hearing these words, set out for Mycenæ.
		In the Island of Erytheia, in the middle of the Stream of Ocean, lived the monster, his heard guarded by the two-headed hound Orthus—that hound was the brother of Cerberus, the three-headed hound that kept guard in the Underworld Mounted upon the bull given Minos by Poseidon, Hercules fared across the sea.
		As a reward for this labor he was offered the Princess Hesione in marriage; she was the daughter of King Laomedon, and the sister of Priam, who was then called, not Priam but Podarces.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /texts/herculeslabors.htm (8502 words)

	Amazon Myths
		Hercules, son of Zeus, was born from a union between Zeus and Alcmena (a mortal).Hercules was forced to perform twelve labors because after Hera smited him with a fit of insane rage, he killed his wife Megara, and his children.
		Eurystheus sent Hercules to commit to twelve labors in order to purge/cleanse himself from the murder of his wife and children.
		The twelve labors of Hercules all involve the taming, capture, cleaning (the cleaning of the Augean Stables), or slaying of wild beasts.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/amazons/amazonmyths.html (1394 words)

	The Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hercules was now sentenced to serving Eurystheus for twelve years and to perform a series of ten tasks or "ten labors" which became twelve because he did not acknowledge two of his labors.
		So Hercules as a disciple who takes orders from his soul, undertook the twelve labors accomplishing each one within a different zodiac sign.
		Hera represents the soul, so his name embodies his mission which was to reveal with active service on the physical level, the glory and power of his innate Divinity.
	www.steliart.com /hercules_myth.html (265 words)

	Twelve Labors, The
		The twelve labors of Heracles were assigned to him by the king of Argos, Eurystheus, who was a weak and cowardly king.
		Heracles was told to return to his homeland of the Peloponnese and put himself at the disposal of king Eurystheus for twelve years.
		There are many variations of in which order the labors were assigned, some versions use the order in which the metopes (carved stone panels between the triglyphs, which are on the architrave of the entablature) from the "Temple of Zeus Olympia" are arranged.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/t/twelve_labors.html (247 words)

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		The first labor - killing the Nemean Lion - is well-known for it is during this fight that Heracles acquires his most famous attribute, the lionskin he wears as a cloak.
		This labor stands as evidence of his great strength, for he must strangle this lion whose skin cannot be penetrated by a weapon.
		In order to work out his criminal behavior he must perform twelve labors.Heracles is obliged to perform labors, to undertake a great work, in somewhat the same sense that the alchemist undertook his task of the transformation of matter.
	www.lycos.com /info/heracles--labors.html (403 words)

	ERBzine 0671: Jungle Tales II
		For whatever other reasons one may present for the stories numbering twelve, make no mistake in thinking that Burroughs was not completely aware that he was rewriting the classical twelve labors for his ape-man with the model of Hercules clearly in mind.
		Each of the labors of course refers to a specific sign of the zodiac, and a deeper study than this one may show them to match the cycle point for point.
		The Lion = Labor 1 - The Nemean Lion
	www.erbzine.com /mag6/0671.html (2077 words)

	What were the 12 Labors of Hercules?
		The third labor was to catch the stag of Diana, famous for its fleetness, its golden horns, and brazen feet.
		The eighth labor was to obtain the mares of Diomedes, king of the Bistones, in Thrace, which fed upon human flesh.
		The twelfth labor was the most dangerous of all, being that of bringing the three-headed dog Cerberus from the infernal regions, where he kept guard over the entrance.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/whatwere_bdh.html (1004 words)

	20 Heracles
		Labors are presented in the traditional way: "Heracles undertook to cleanse the world of brutal violence."
		The labors are described again and again in the play and reenacted in a deformed way in the madness.
		Euripides follows the canon of the twelve labors fairly closely, making only a few substitutions, perhaps stressing the civilizing mission of Heracles; but also stressing the loneliness and violence required in making the world safe.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /luschnig/GTC/20.htm (526 words)

	Twelve Labors
		This seemingly impossible task was the first of the Twelve Labors of Heracles, as named by his enemy Eurystheus.
		Definition of the glossary term twelve labors of Heracles
		heracles • hercules • eurystheus • 12 labors of heracles • hera
	www.suite101.com /reference/twelve_labors (84 words)

	The Twelve Labors of Hercules - Crystalinks
		The Twelve Labors are a series of archaic episodes connected by a later continuous narrative, concerning a penance carried out by Hercules, the greatest of the Greek heroes.
		The second labor of Hercules was to kill the Lernean Hydra.
		For the sixth Labor, Hercules was to drive away an enormous flock of birds which gathered at a lake near the town of Stymphalos.
	www.crystalinks.com /12laborshercules.html (4937 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Labors of Heracles
		The first to write a systematic account of the twelve labors was probably Diodorus of Sicily (c.
		Heracles' second labor was to kill the hydra (water snake) from Lerna, another town near Tiryns.
		The sixth labor was to remove the countless man-eating birds that invested the marshes near Stymphalus.
	www.livius.org /a/heracles/heracles1.html (728 words)

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