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Rather than one character, we should view him as assuming different roles in different. Euripides born first, so that he receives this blessing, since hera is jealous of zeus and alcmene contexts. Committed and endured many reckless things for eurystheus. Yet hera is hostile toward him in most stories; perhaps this name is given because his fame was attained through hera"s plots. Presumably because of his endurance and resilience. Many of the things he did were not (cid:498)good(cid:499) Eg. killed his wife megara and their children when hera made him mad, according to. Zeus says that heracles will be a great king, but hera makes heracles" cousin eurystheus. This is why heracles had to labor for eurystheus. Heracles born a slave, rather than a king. Heracles" wife, megara was the daughter of creon. Euripides said heracles killed his wife, but other poets don"t include this detail. From hesiod"s theogony, we learn of three of heracles" labours:

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