Hercules was given a fourth task: to capture the boar of Erymantos alive and bring it back to McKenny intact and give it to King Eurystheus. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis boar was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis, but it was very harmful to the crops in the area of Erymantos.

On his way to Erymantos, Hercules came to the house of Phros, the son of Selenos, a native of Kentaulus, who warmly served a pot of roast meat to his guests, while he himself ate it raw. Hercules wished to accompany the food with good wine, and when Foros heard this, he smiled and said, "Honored guest, there is a barrel of wine in my basement, which belongs to all of us Kentauros.

I didn't dare open it up, because I knew that we half-man, half-horse Kentaulos were not generous. "Open," said Hercules, "I promise you to protect you from their attacks. I'm so thirsty right now! “

It turned out that this barrel of wine was given by the god of wine Bacchus himself to a centaur, the Kentaurus, and instructed him not to open it in advance until the arrival of Hercules, the fourth generation of centaurs. So, Foros went to the basement.

No sooner had he opened the barrel than the horses flocked to the basement of Foross with stones or sticks in their hands. Hercules took up the rod of fire and sent the first group of Kentaurus back, and then shot arrows after the rest of the group until they reached the river Maraer in the southeastern corner of the Peloponnese, where Hercules' old friend Charon lived. The Kentauros defected to Charon. Hercules fired an arrow at them, and the arrow grazed the arm of a Kentaurus man and struck Charon in the knee, only to realize that he had shot his childhood friend.

He plucked the arrow from his friend's knee and applied it to the wound with an ointment made by the healed Keron himself. But because the arrows had been soaked in the poisonous blood of Xudra, the wounds could not be healed. Caron instructed his brothers to carry him back to the cave, hoping to die in the arms of his friend. Unfortunately, this wish is also vain, because he forgets that he is immortal, and his pain will be endured forever. Hercules said goodbye to Charon in tears, promising to ask death to grant his old friend's wish to free him from his suffering, no matter what the cost. We know that he has fulfilled his promise.

Hercules returned to Foros, and he saw that the friend was dead. It turned out that he pulled out an arrow from the body of a dead Kentaurus, and could not help but marvel at the power of this short arrow to kill a life.

He threw the arrow on the ground, but it cut his foot and killed him instantly. Hercules was so sad that he buried his friend at the foot of a mountain, which has since been known as Mount Forro.

Hercules continued on his way in search of wild boars. He roared loudly, drove the boar out of the jungle, and chased it after him, until he drove it into the snow, and finally caught the exhausted boar with a slipknot. At the behest of King Eurystheus, he captured alive the boar on Mount Erymantos and delivered it alive to McKenny.

King Eurystheus gave the fifth task. He seemed to have been sent to do what a hero disdained to do, and he was to clean the cowshed of Augeas in one day. Augeas was the king of Elise and had a large number of cattle. His herd was kept in a barn in front of the palace, according to ancient custom, and there were more than 3,000 cattle in it. It was filled with cow dung for years. Hercules didn't know what to do in order to get rid of the cow dung in just one day.

Hercules came to King Augeas and offered to sweep the barn, but he did not say that it was a task given to him by Eurystheus. Ogas looked at the burly man in lion's skin in front of him, and couldn't help but laugh at the thought that such a noble warrior would be willing to do the work of a servant. But he thought to himself, his desires are tempting, and perhaps this samurai is greedy for a lot of money, and he wants me to reward him heavily.

If he could clean the barn in one day, I would be fine with a reward, but how could so much cow dung be cleaned in one day? It's impossible for anyone to do this. Thinking of this, the king confidently said, "Listen, stranger, if you could clean the cowshed in front of the palace in one day, I will give you a tenth of the herd." “

Hercules accepted this condition. The king thought that he was about to start sweeping, but Hercules called Philoyus, the son of Ochas, and called him as a witness, and then dug a ditch on one side of the cowshed, and brought in the water of the rivers Alphous and Penaeus, and flowed through the cowshed, and washed away the large pile of cow dung inside.

As a result, he completed the task without even getting his hands dirty.

When Augeas heard that Hercules had been ordered by Eurystheus to do this, he wanted to repay the debt, denying that he had promised not to pay Hercules anything, and that if Hercules did not accept it, they could go to court. When the judge heard the case, Philoyus, the son of Augeas, testified that it was true, and that his father had promised Hercules a heavy reward. Augeas was furious, and without waiting for the verdict, he ordered his son and the strangers to leave his kingdom immediately.

Hercules completed his mission and happily returned to the kingdom of Eurystheus, but the king announced that the mission could not be counted because Hercules was asking for compensation. He sent Hercules on a sixth mission, which was to drive away the strange birds of Lake Stynfaros. This is a huge bird of prey, with iron wings, iron beak, iron claws, very powerful.

They inhabit the shores of Lake Stynfaros in Alcadia. Their feathers are like arrows, and their iron beaks can even peck through bronze shields, where they have harmed countless humans and animals.

Hercules set out for Lake Stinfaros, and soon came to the shores of a lake surrounded by dense forests. A flock of strange birds flew around in terror in the woods, as if they were afraid of being eaten by wolves. Hercules watched the birds fly through the air, but was unable to subdue them. Suddenly, he felt a gentle tap on the shoulder, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Athena, who handed him two large bronze cymbals, which Hephaestus had made for her.

She taught Hercules how to use cymbals to keep strange birds away. After speaking, she suddenly disappeared. So Hercules climbed a hill by the lake, and struck the cymbals so hard that they frightened the strange birds, and they could not stand the harsh sound, and they all flew out of the woods in a hurry. Hercules took advantage of this opportunity to bend his bow and shoot several arrows in succession, and several strange birds fell to the ground, and the rest also flew away in a hurry. They flew over the sea all the way to the island of Aritiya, never to return.

King Minos of Crete promised Poseidon, the god of the sea, to sacrifice the first animal that appeared in the sea to him, because Minos believed that there was not a single animal in his territory worthy of being sacrificed to the great god. Poseidon was so moved that he made a sturdy bull emerge from the waves.

When Minos saw the bull, he liked it so much that he was reluctant to offer it to the god of the sea, so he quietly hid it in his herd and sacrificed it in his place with another bull.

The god of the sea was very angry, and he made the bull from the sea go crazy and wreak havoc on Crete, and Hercules was given the seventh task to tame the bull on Crete and bring it back to King Eurystheus.

Hercules came to Crete and met King Minos. Minos was glad that he had already broken his mind for the bull, and wished that someone would rid him of it. The king even personally helped Hercules to capture the crazy bull. Hercules had extraordinary strength, he subdued the rampaging bull in good order, and then rode on the back of the ox as if it were sailing in a boat, and from here he returned to the Peloponnese.

King Eurystheus was pleased with the work he had done, but he looked at the bull and let it go. Once the bull was out of Hercules' control, he went on a rampage again. It runs through the regions of Laconia and Lagadia, then crosses the isthmus and reaches Marathon in Artetica, doing evil everywhere, as it did on the island of Crete. It was not until much later that he was subdued by the Greek hero Theseus.

Hercules' eighth task was to bring Diomedes' group of horses back to McKenny. Diomedes was the son of Ares, the god of war, and the king of the warlike Pistonas. He kept a herd of fierce and wild horses, which had to be chained to iron mangers. The feed for the horses was not oats for ordinary horses, but for unfortunate strangers who strayed into the castle. The first thing Hercules did when he arrived here was to subdue the guards who managed the stables, and then threw the murderous king into the manger.

After eating the king, the horses immediately became tame. They dutifully obeyed Hercules' command and were driven to the seashore. Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him, and it turned out that the Pistoners were fully armed and chased after him. Hercules hurriedly prepared for battle. He left his horse in the care of his companion Apertellus. Apertheus was the messenger of the gods, the son of Hermes.

When Hercules left, the horses went crazy again. When Hercules repelled the Pistonas, he found that his companion had been eaten by horses, and only the bones remained. Hercules was so sad that he built a nearby city of Apetra in honor of his friend. Eventually, he subdued the horses and delivered them into the hands of Eurystheus.

Eurystheus sacrificed these horses to Hera, the queen of heaven. Later, these horses gave birth to foals, which were bred for a long time. It is said that one of the horses that King Alexander of Macedon rode was their descendant.

When Hercules had done this, he went with Iason and the Argot heroes to Kolchis to seize the Golden Fleece, as has already been said.

Hercules followed Iason's adventures at sea, and later to Eurystheus, where he accepted the ninth mission. Eurystheus had a daughter named Artemetta. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to seize the belt of Queen Hippolyta of the Amazon and offer it to Artemetta.

The Amazons live on the banks of the Termodon River in Pontus, a nation of women who buy and sell men to bear children, keep the girls they give birth to, and raise them to be raised. Since ancient times, this people has been martial and warlike. Their queen, Hippolyta, wore a belt that had been given to her by the god of war himself. This is a sign of the Queen's power.

Hercules gathered a group of men who volunteered to go to war and set out on an adventure by boat. After many twists and turns, they entered the Black Sea, and finally came to the mouth of the Termodon River, and sailed up the river to Themischira, the port of the Amazons. Here they met the queen of the Amazon. She saw Hercules with a dignified appearance and a burly figure, and she liked and respected him very much. When she heard the purpose of the hero's coming, she agreed to give the belt to Hercules.

But Hera, the queen of heaven, hated Hercules. Disguised as an Amazonian woman, she mingles with the crowd to spread rumors that a foreigner wants to kidnap their queen. When the Amazonians heard this, they were furious, and immediately mounted their horses and attacked Hercules, who was living in a tent outside the city. So, there was a vicious battle; Brave Amazon women fought against Hercules' retinue, and another group of battle-hardened women rushed to confront Hercules. The first woman who fought against Hercules, Aella, was known as the Whirlwind Girl because she ran like the wind.

But Hercules ran faster than her. When she was defeated and fled, she was chased and killed by Hercules. As soon as the second woman fought, she was knocked down. Then a third woman came up, named Pelote, who had won seven individual battles, but was also killed this time. Eight more women came after her, three of whom were chosen warriors in the Artemis hunt, and who threw their spears with a hundred shots. However, in this battle, they were greatly disgraced, and they could not shoot the target, and they all hit Hercules. Alchippo, who had vowed not to marry for the rest of his life, also fell on the battlefield.

In the end, even the leader of the Amazonian women, the valiant Melanipo, was captured alive by Hercules. The Amazon women suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and they fled one after another.

Queen Hippolyta offered her belt, which she had promised before the battle. Hercules took the belt and put it back in Melanipo.

On his way back to McKenny, Hercules experienced a new adventure on the shores of Troy. For here he found Hesione, the daughter of the Trojan king Laomedon, tied to a rock, waiting in terror to devour her monsters. Poseidon, the god of the sea, once built the Trojan wall for Laomedon, but the king was stingy with money and did not pay him. In retaliation, the sea god sent sea monsters to trample on the land and endanger people and animals, until King Raomedon was forced to hand over his daughter in desperation in order to bring peace to himself and the place. When Hercules passed there, the king hurriedly asked for his help, and promised to give him a herd of beautiful horses as soon as he rescued his daughter. The horses were also a gift from Zeus to Laomodon's father.

Hercules waited in ambush where the sea monster was infested. The youkai finally arrived, and it opened its bloody jaws to devour the girl. At this moment, Hercules rushed up, jumped into its throat, entered its abdominal cavity, cut its internal organs with a knife, and then dug a hole in its body and crawled out. This time, however, Raomedon did not keep his promise and did not send the horses. Hercules said some threatening words and left angrily.

Hercules offered the girdle of Queen Hippolyta at the feet of King Eurystheus. Eurystheus did not let him rest, and immediately sent him to bring back the herd of Grimion. Cleion was a giant who lived on the island of Eritsa, in the Bay of Gadila, and he had a herd of brown and red cattle, which he was tended by another giant and a two-headed hound.

He was as tall as a mountain, with three heads and six arms, three bodies, and six legs. No one in the world dared to fight him. Hercules knew that this difficult task required careful preparation, for Cleion's father was a world-famous wealthy man, nicknamed the "Golden Sword", and was the king of the whole world. Italy was later divided into Spain and Portugal. In addition to Grimion, he had three tall and brave sons, each commanding a mighty and warlike army.

Because of this, King Eurystheus gave Hercules such a task, hoping that Hercules would be killed there during the conquest of the country and never return. But Hercules was not afraid of this task, and he raised his army, as before, gathered the troops he had rescued from the beast on the island of Crete, and landed in Libya by boat. Here he fought against the giant Andros.

Antaeus was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Gaia, the mother of the earth. All passers-by passing through Libya must fight him. However, when fighting, Antaeus was able to draw strength from Mother Earth as long as he did not leave the earth. Hercules knocked him down three times and finally discovered the secret of his regaining strength. He then lifted Antaeus into the air with his strong arms and strangled him to death. He also cleared Libya of ferocious animals.

After a long journey in the desert region, he finally came to a rich river network area. Here he founded a huge city, which he called Hekatompilos, which means a hundred gates. Eventually, he came to the Atlantic Ocean, where he erected two stone pillars, the famous Hercules Column. The sun is blazing here, and the heat is unbearable. Hercules looked up at the sky and raised his bow and arrow menacingly, trying to shoot the sun god down.

The sun god marveled at his fearlessness and lent him a golden bowl. It was a treasure he used on his night travels. Hercules crossed the sea in a golden bowl to Emperia. His warship sailed closely beside him, canopy open. There, the three sons of Chrysaur led three armies and prepared to meet the enemy. Hercules rushed ashore with great courage. Instead of fighting against the army, he knocked their leaders to the ground one by one, killed them, and then took possession of their land.

He then came to the island of Eritsa, where Cleion and his herd were located. The two-headed dog on the island spotted Hercules and barked and pounced. Hercules swung a wooden stick and killed the vicious dog. The giant, who was guarding the herd, saw that the dog had been killed and wanted to come to his aid, but he was also beaten to death with a stick. Hercules hurried with the herd and left there. However, Grimon caught up with him, and a fierce battle ensued. Hera came to the aid of the giant Geryon.

Hercules unceremoniously shot an arrow and hit her ****. Hera was taken aback and fled in a hurry. Besides, although the giant had three bodies, he was fatally struck by a fatal arrow in the abdomen where the three bodies were connected, and he fell to the ground and died.

On his triumphant journey, Hercules drove his cattle through Italy and Italy, and along the way he created many heroic deeds. When he reached Lecium in southern Italy, a bull escaped and crossed the strait to Sicily. Hercules immediately drove the rest of the bulls into the water. He seized the horn of an ox and swam to Sicily, and with many feats, he made it through Italy, Illyria, and Tracchi, and finally to Greece.

Now, Hercules has completed ten tasks, but two of them are not counted by Eurystheus, so he has to make up two more.

Once upon a time, when Zeus married Hera, all the gods gave them gifts. Gaia, the goddess of the earth, was no exception, bringing from the west coast a large tree full of golden apples. The four daughters of the god of the night, named Hesperides, were assigned to guard the sacred garden where the tree was planted. Also helping them in their guard is Ladon, a hundred-headed dragon born to Forkus, the father of the Hundred Monsters, and Keto, the daughter of the earth, who never sleeps. As it walks, it always makes a deafening sound along the way, because its hundred mouths emit a hundred different sounds. According to Eurystheus' orders, Hercules had to pluck the golden apple of Hesperides from the dragon.

Hercules embarked on a long and arduous journey. He walked aimlessly, wherever he went, by luck and chance, for he did not know where Hesperides lived. He first came to Thessaly, where the giant Telmeros lived. He had a hard head, and when he encountered a passing traveler, he chased after him and killed it with his head.

But this time his head hit Hercules on the head, and he was shattered. Hercules continued on his way, and came to the vicinity of the Ehiturus River, where he encountered a monster who was Ares and Pollenne's son Kuknos. Hercules, not knowing his details, asked him where the sacred garden of Hesperides was. He did not answer and challenged Hercules, who was killed on the spot. At this time, Ares, the god of war, hurried to avenge the death of his son. Hercules had to fight. But Zeus did not want to see one of them bleed, because they were both his sons. He separated them with a bolt of lightning.

Hercules continued on his way, through Illyria, across the River Elidanus, and in front of a group of goddesses of mountains, forests, and waters. They were daughters of Zeus and Themis and lived on both sides of the Elidanus River. Hercules asked them for directions. "You go to the old river god Nereus." The goddesses replied, "He is a prophet who knows everything." Attack him while he's sleeping, tie him up, and he'll tell you the truth. “

Despite the river god's prowess and ability to take on various forms, Hercules subdued the river god at the suggestion of the goddess. Hercules didn't let him go until he had asked where to find the golden apple of Hesperides.

Later, he traveled through Libya and Egypt. The king who ruled there was Poseidon and Posilles, the son of Lucianasa. After nine consecutive years of drought, a soothsayer in Cyprus announced a cruel oracle: only a sacrifice to Zeus each year would make the land fertile. In gratitude for the oracle he had spoken, King Posilles killed him as the first sacrifice. Later, the barbarous king became so interested in this annual cruel ritual that all the strangers who came to Egypt were killed. Hercules was also captured and bound to the altar where Zeus was sacrificed.

Hercules broke free from the ropes and killed King Pocelles, along with his sons and priests.

Hercules continued on his way, encountering many dangers along the way. He freed the bound Prometheus from the Caucasus Mountain, and followed the direction shown by the liberated Titans to the place where Atlas carried the blue sky. Nearby is the sacred garden where Hesperides guarded the golden apples. Prometheus advises Hercules not to pick the golden apple himself, but to send Atlas to complete the task.

Hercules was right when he thought about it, so he promised to carry the blue sky himself during the time Atlas was away. Atlas handed over the burden of the sky to Hercules and made his way to the Sanctuary. He tried to lure the dragon to sleep, and killed it with a sword, and tricked the fairies of the guards into picking three golden apples, and returned to Hercules in high spirits.

"But," he said to Hercules, "my shoulders have tasted enough to carry the sky, and I feel the ease of not being burdened, and I do not want to carry them any more." With that, he threw the golden apple on the grass at Hercules' feet, and made him stand there carrying the heavy blue sky. Hercules came up with a plan to get rid of the burden on his shoulders. "Hey, I'd like to find a cushion to rest on my head," he said to Atlas, "or else this weight will blow my head apart." “

Atlas thinks this is a reasonable request, and agrees to carry it on his behalf for a while. He took the load, and if he had to wait for Hercules to take his place, he didn't know how long it would take, for Hercules had already picked up the golden apple from the grass and walked away quickly.

Hercules brought the golden apple to King Eurystheus. The king was disappointed that Hercules had returned alive this time, and he had hoped that he would die while picking the golden apple. In fact, he didn't like the golden apple, so he gave it to Hercules. He offered it to the altar of Athena. The goddess then sent the sacred fruits back to their original place, leaving Hesperides to continue to look after them. (To be continued.) )