Chapter 14 Heracles
1. How does Heracles show sympathy between the natural world and the civilized world? ______
2. Where was Heracles eventually taken and what did he become? ______
3. Alcmena is a descendent of which Greek hero?______
4. Who attacked Electryon? ______
5. Why was Electryon bent on revenge? ______
6. To whose care was Alcmena entrusted? ______
7. Why was Amphitryon banished? ______
8. What did Alcmena require before she would share the marital bed with Amphitryon?
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9. How did Zeus seduce Alcmena? ______
10. How did Alcmena receive both divine and mortal seed in one night? ______
11. What two children did Alcmena bear and who were their fathers? ______
12. What did Amphitryon and Electryon quarrel about? ______
13. Where did Amphitryon go when he was banished? ______
14. What did Zeus swear as Alcmena was about to give birth? ______
15. What did Hera do to ensure Heracles was not a ruler? ______
16. Who ended up being ruler over the surrounding lands? ______
17. Heracles became a ______to Eurystheus.
18. What did Lucina (Euleithyia) do to prevent Alcmena’s giving birth per instructions from Hera? ______
19. How did Galanthis trick Lucina? What did Galanthis become? ______
20. What did Hera send to destroy the baby Heracles? ______
21. What did Heracles do to the venomous serpents? ______
22. How was the Milky Way formed? ______
23. What happened to Heracles’ tutor of the lyre and how was Heracles punished?
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24. How did Heracles have his first 50 children? ______
25. How did Heracles free Thebes from paying tribute to Erginus? ______
26. Who did Heracles marry? How many children did they have? ______
27. What did Heracles do to his children and Megara? Who was behind this? ______
28. How did Heracles murder his wife and children? Who eventually stopped his madness? ______
29. Where did Heracles go after the murders and what was his command to atone for his sins? ______
30. The first labor was for Heracles to kill the Nemean Lion. Explain how Heracles killed it. ______
31. What was Eurystheus’ reaction to Heracles? ______
32. Describe Heracles’ second labor The Lernaean Hydra. ______
33. Describe Heracles’ third labor The Ceryneian Deer. ______
34. Describe Heracles’ forth labor The Erymanthian Boar. ______
35. Describe what happened with Heracles and the Centaurs. ______
36. Describe Heracles’ fifth labor The Augean Stables. ______
37. Describe Heracles’ sixth labor The Stymphalian Birds. ______
38. Describe Heracles’ seventh labor The Cretan Bull. ______
39. Describe Heracles’ eighth labor The Horses of Diomedes? ______
40. Who does Heracles save from Thanatos and why was she dead? ______
41. Describe Heracles ninth labor The Girdle of Hippolyta. ______
42. Describe Heracles tenth labor. ______
43. Who tried to steal some of the cattle? How did Heracles get the cattle back? ______
44. What giant did Heracles kill and how did he kill him? ______
45. How does Heracles almost become a sacrifice and what does he do? ______
46. Who did Heracles free and how? ______
47. Describe Heracles eleventh labor The apples of the Herperides. How does he trick Atlas? ______
48. Describe Heracles’ twelfth labor? ______
49. Who did Heracles want to marry? How did he win her? Why did her father refuse?______
50. Who did Heracles kill and what did he violate? ______
51. What is xenia? ______
52. What did Heracles do at the temple of Apollo and who separated Apollo and Heracles with what? ______
53. What did Heracles have to do to atone for killing Iphitus? ______
54. What happened to Pan? ______
55. What happened with Heracles and the thieves? ______
56. Who did Heracles defeat for the hand of Deianira? ______
57. What did Nessus do and how did Heracles deal with him? ______
58. What did Nessus tell Deianira to collect and for what? ______
59. What was Deianira jealous about? What did she do? ______
60. What happened when Heracles put on the cloak? ______
61. What finally happened to Heracles? ______