Heracles : Myths And Legends Heracles English Plus Podcast : Suffering the vengeful persecution of hera, heracles faced continual challenges, the first of which was two serpents that she sends to kill him in his cradle.
Suffering the vengeful persecution of hera, heracles faced continual challenges, the first of which was two serpents that she sends to kill him in his cradle. The life of the greek hero. Heracles then herded the cattle and, with difficulty, took them to eurytheus. Heracles was the most popular greek hero ever. He span wool, it is said, and sometimes he put on the garments of a woman, while omphale wore his lion's skin; Hercules The Life Of The Greek Hero from www.greekmythology.com Heracles was born to the mortal woman alcmene and zeus, who disguised himself as her husband amphitryon home early from the war. Heracles' existence was proof of zeus' illicit affairs and hera, his wife, enraged by this conspired against him as revenge for her husband's infidelities. Heracles was sold to omphale, queen of lydia, and widow of tmol