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Show Labors of Hercules The 12 tasks of great difficulty imposed im-posed on Hercules by the Argive king were as follows: "To slay the Nemean lion, kill the Lernean hydra, catch and retain the Arcadian stag, destroy the Erymanthian boar, cleanse the stables of King Augeas, destroy the cannibal birds of the Lake Stymphalis, take captive the Cretan bull, catch the horses of the Thracian Diomedes, get possession of the girdle of Hyppolyta, queen of the Amazons; take captive the oxen of the monster Geryon, get possession posses-sion of the apples of the Hesperides, and bring up from the infernal regions re-gions the three-headed dog Cer-verus. |