CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lernaean Hydra, Erymanthian Boar, Ceryneian Hind

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Son of amphitryon and alcmena (though really the son of zeus and alcmena, but. Was destined to rule the world since zeus is his dad; zeus made a declaration of this. Hera delays the birth of heracles, and sends eileithyia (her daughter and also a minor goddess of birthright) to speed up the birth of his cousin. Hera also sends two snakes to baby heracles to kill him. Heracles grabs the two snakes by his hands and kills them. His parents got him a lot of teachers to enhance his skills. He was terrible at music though, and has a music teacher called linus. Linus was berating heracles for being so bad at the lyre, that heracles took. Linus" lyre and clubs him in the head with it killing linus. So, heracles has to be exiled -- he left thebes. Thespius has a lion plaguing his countryside and he has 50 daughters --