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Ages of Mankind
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Golden Age
Lived during Cronos' time
No hard work or old age
Everything good
Land gave them food
Transformed into holy spirits
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Silver Age
Child reared for 100 years and afterward didn't live very long
Lack of wits
Brought pain to themselves
Did not honor gods
Zeus got angry and killed them
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Bronze Age
Made out of ash trees
Cared about fighting and war
Had no agriculture
Bronze weapons, houses, tools
Died without names being left behind
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Heroic Age
Demigods
Died fighting in great wars
Zeus gave them a life apart from other men
Live free from all care in Isles of the Blest
Blessed Heroes
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Iron Age
Man always has some trouble
Gods give pain
Zeus will destroy these too
No one will get along anymore
People will sack each others' cities
Suffering for all men
Heroes
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Ploutos
Demeter and Iasion
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Ino, Semele, Agaue, Autonoe
Harmonia and Cadmos
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Geryones
Callirhoe and Chrysaor
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Memnon, Emathion

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Dawn and Tithonos
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Phaethon
Dawn and Cephalos
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Jason
Aison
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Medeios
Aietes' daughter and Jason
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Phocos
Psamathe and Aiacos
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Achilles
Thetis and Peleus
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Aineias
Cythereia and Anchises
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Agrios, Latinos, Telegonos (through Aphrodite)
Circe and Odysseus
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Nausithoos, Nausinoos
Calypso and Odysseus
Perseus
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Conception and Childhood
Acrisios put his daughter Danae in an underground chamber due to the prophecy that her
son would kill him
Priotos seduced Danae or Zeus came down and had sex with Danae
Danae gave birth to Perseus
Danae and Perseus put into a chest by Acrisios and landed on Seriphos
Dictys took Perseus and raised him
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Quest to Slay Medusa
Dictys' brother the king of Seriphos fell in love with Danae but because Perseus was now a
man he could not sleep with her so Polydectes lied and said was collecting contributions for
a certain marriage
Asked for horses and Perseus did not give him horses so he was ordered to bring Medusa's
head
With Athena and Hermes' guidance, came to daughters of Phorcos and took their eye and
returned in exchange for way to Nymphs
Obtained winged sandals and kibisis and Hades' cap from Nymphs, and adamantine sickle
from Hermes
Perseus came to them while they slept and looked into bronze shield and sliced off Medusa's
head and out sprang Pegasos and Chrysaor
Put head of Medusa into kibisis and returned because Hades' cap allowed him to remain
unseen
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Rescue of Andromeda
Cepheus was King of Ethopia
Cepheus' wife Cassiepeia had competed with Nereids over beauty, boasting that she was

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superior
So Poseidon sent a flood and monsters after themselves
The oracle of Ammon said if their daughter Andromeda was given as food to the monster
the disaster would end so Cepheus tied her to a tree
Perseus fell in love with Andromeda and Cepheus made an oath that if he saved her and
killed the beast he would have her in marriage
He did just that and freed Andromeda
Phineus, Cepheus' brother plotted against Perseus so he turned Phineus and his conspirators
to stone
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Return to Seriphos and Defeat of Polydectes
His mother Danae took refuge due to violence
He went into the palace and turned everyone to stone
Installed Dictys as Kings of Seriphos
Returned sandals, kibisis, and cap to Hermes, and gave Medusa's head to Athena
Hermes gave it back to Nymphs, and Athena put the head on her shield
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Return to Argos and Killing of Acrisios
Perseus went to Argos to see Acrisios, and Acrisos went in hiding to Land of Pelasgians but
the King was holding athletic games for his deceased father
Perseus competed in the pentathlon, and killed Acrios by hitting in the foot with the discus,
and buried him outside the city
He did not want to inherit the city of the man he killed, so he gave Argos to Proitos' son
Megapenthes
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Ending
Megapenthes became king of Argives
Perseus became King of Tiryns
Andromeda gave birth to Perseus' children

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Heracles
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Circumstances of his birth
When Amphitryon, son of Alcios, was away on a war of vengeance, Zeus changed his
appearanced to that of Amphitryon and slept with Alcmene
Alceme had two sons, Iphicles and Heracles
Hera sent two serpents and Iphicles fled but Heracles killed them so Heracles was Zeus' son
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Heracles Youth
Tribute With Erginos
Heracles ran into some of Erginos' herald
Thebans were ordered to pay tribute because a charioteer Perieres hit Clymenos with a
stone and Clymenos dying asked Erginos to avenge him
With weapons and armor from Athena, he killed Erginos, and forced Minyans to pay
double tribute to Thebans
Amphitryon died fighting in the battle and he received his oldest daughter Megara for
bravery from Creon
Marriage with Megara
He had three sons with Megara
He obtained a sword from Hermes, a bow from Apollo, a golden breastplate from
Hephaistos and a robe from Athena
Hera's jealousy drove him mad
He threw his children into a fire with two of his brother's sons
He went into exile afterward and went to serve Eurystheus for twelve years to
accomplish the ten labor
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The First Labor: The Nemean Lion
The Nemean Lion was invulnerable
Came to Cleonai and was a guest by Molorchos and Molorchos wanted to sacrifice a victim
He told him to hold on the sacrifice for 30 days
If he returned alive, make a sacrifice fit for a god
If he died, make a sacrifice for himself fit for a hero
Heracles found out the beast was invulnerable and took out his club
He drove it into a cave with two entrances and blocked one entrance
He choked it in a headlock
Heracles sacrificed the victim to Zeus
Eurystheus was frightened by Heracles' courage and had him display his labors from the
gates of the city
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The Second Labor: The Lernaian Hydra
The Hydra had 9 heads, 8 mortal and 1 immortal
The heads would regenerate when cut off
Hera sent a crab to help the Hydra
After he killed the crab, his nephew Iolaos set fire to the roots so the heads could not
regenerate
Heracles then cut off the immortal head and buried it and put a heavy rock on top of it on
the road from Lerna to Elaious

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He then dipped his arrows into the hydra's bile

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The Third Labor: The Cerynitian Deer
This deer was sacred to Artemis so Heracles did not want to kill/wound it
He chased it for an entire year
It fled to the mountain Artemisios and to the Ladon River
When it was going to cross, Heracles shot it with his bow
Artemis was angry because he killed her sacred animal
However, Heracles said he was forced to do it and the blame lie on Eurystheus
This soothed Artemis' anger
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The Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar
The beast caused destruction by making attacks from a mountain
Heracles stayed as a guest with the Centaur Pholos
Heracles ate raw meat instead of roasted meat
Pholos was afraid to open the communal jar when he asked for wine
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The Centaurs smelled and came with rocks and fir trees, but he repelled the first two
with fire and the rest with his bow
They fled to the home of Cheiron and Heracles shot an arrow that eventually got lodge
in his knee
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Heracles took it out and applied medicine from Cheiron
Cheiron went to his cave and wanted to die, but couldn't due to his immortality
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Prometheus offered to take his immortality to Zeus and Cheiron died
Pholos took an arrow from a corpse but the venom dropped on his foot and he died
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Heracles buried him afterward
Heracles chased it from a thicket via shouting
He forced it into deep snow and lassoed it
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The Fifth Labor: The Cattle of Augeias
Augeias, king of Elis and son of Helios, had many herds of cattle
Not knowing that Eurystheus ordered him to do it, he made a promise to give Heracles
1/10th of the cattle as payment
He made a hole in the stable, and made an outlet from the rivers Alpheios and Peneios to
divert the water there
Augeias denied ever making the promise, and brought it to court, but because his son
testified against him, he made them depart from Elis before the vote was cast
The House of Dexamenos
Heracles came to Olnes to this house and found the man being forced to engage his
daughter to the Centaur Eurytion
When asked to help, he killed Eurytion when he came for his bride
This Labor did not count because it was done for payment
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The Sixth Labor: The Stymphalian Birds
There was a marsh called Stymphalian Marsh covered by thick woods
The birds took refuge out of fear of being eaten by wolves
Athena gave him bronze castanets and he rattled them on a nearby mountain and he shot
them as they flew
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The Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
This was the bull sent forth from the sea by Poseidon when Minos said that he would

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sacrifice whatever appeared from the sea
But Minos loved the beauty of the bull, and put it in his herd, and sacrificed another cow
and this angered Poseidon and he made the bull go wild
Minos said if Heracles could subdue it he could take it
He captured it, showed it, and then set it free
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The Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
Diomedes, the son of Ares, owned man-eating mares and king of Bistones
Heracles overpowered the men in charge of the mare's mangers, and handed them over to
Abderos, a son of Hermes, to guard
Heracles fought the Bistones and killed Diomedes
The mares killed Abderos so he founded a city by his tomb
He gave the mares to Eurystheus and Eurystheus led them to the mountain where the beats
killed them
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The Ninth Labor: The War-Belt of Hippolyte
Admete, Eurystheus' daughter, wanted the War-Belt of Hippolyte
Ares' war-belt was a sign of her authority over all the Amazons
Sons of Minos
He sailed onto the island of Paros, where the sons of Minos dwell
The allies on his ship disembarked, and two were killed by sons of Minos
He killed the sons of Minos and blockaded the rest of the population
They sent ambassadors and he was allowed to choose any two to replace those lost
He took Alcaios and Sthenelos
Heracleia
Lycos invited Heracles as a guest
When Lycos and the king of Bebyrces fought, Heracles aided Lycos
He killed many and took a large portion of the Bebyrces' land and named it Heracleia
Heracles sailed to Themiscyra and Hippolyte asked them why they were there
Hippolyte promised to hand over the war-belt
However, Hera disguised herself and told her the strangers meant to abduct the Queen
Heracles killed Hippolyte and took the war-belt
Troy
Apollo and Poseidon tested the insolence of Laomedon
They built him walls, but he refused to pay them
So Apollo sent a plague and Poseidon sent a sea monster
The oracles said if he set out his daughter as food the misfortunes would stop
Heracles agreed to kill the monster and save Hesione if he gave the mares Zeus had
given for compensation of the kidnapping of Ganymedes
He refused to pay so he threatened he would make war at Troy
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The Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryones
Heracles killed many wild beats, set up two facing pillars at limits of Europe and Libya, and
shot a bow at Helios and Helios gave him a golden cup
He camped on Mount Abas in Erytheia, but a dog sensed him so he smashed it with his club
and killed the cowherd Eurytion
Heracles killed Menoites who was pasturing Hades' cattle and took them

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Heracles handed the cattle over to Hephaistos and hurried in search of one of the bulls that
broke loose
He wrestled and beat Eryx 3 times and killed him and took back the bull
Hera sent a gadfly so the cattle were scattered
Heracles blamed the Strymon River and filled it with rocks for making his search difficult
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The Eleventh Labor: The Apples of the Hesperides
Ge gave these as a gift to Zeus when he married Hera
They were guarded by an immortal serpent
Ares tried to avenge his son and challenged Heracles at the Echedoros River but Zeus threw
a thunderbolt
Heracles tied Nereus up into all sorts of shapes in order to determine the location of the
apples
Being forced to wrestle, He lifted Poseidon's son Antaios off the ground and broke his back
to kill him because he grew stronger when he touched the Earth
Heracles killed Bousiris, king of Egypt, because he tried to sacrifice strangers and tried to
sacrifice Heracles to end barrenness in Egypt
He shot down the eagle that ate Prometheus' liver
Prometheus told him not to go after the apples himself but to have Atlas do it and hold the
sky for him
But he tricked Atlas and said he wanted to put a pad on his head, and took the apples as
Atlas held up the sky
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The Twelth Labor: Cerberos
heracles went to Eunolpos in Eleusis to be initiated into the mysteries
He came to Tainaron in Laconia, where that cave leads to the house of Hades
He slaughtered one of the cows of Hades to provide blood for the souls
Heracles grabbed Meniotes who challenged him to a wrestle and Persephone begged for
mercy
Heracles asked Plouton for Cerbos, he said if he could defeat him without using any of his
weapons, he could take him
So he choked the beast to death, and took it and returned
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Marriage to Deianira
When he came to Heracles, he became a suitor for her
He wrestled with Acheloos and took off one of his horns when he changed into a bull
He married her, and Acheloos got his horn by trading it for the horn of Amaltheia
Heracles shot Nessos because Nessos tried to rape her as he carried her over
Nessos took the venom from the arrow and his blood and said it was a love potion and to
swear it on Heracles' clothes if she ever didn't want to lose him
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His Death
He sacked to city of Oichalia and took Iole prisoner
Deianira thought Heracles might love Iole more than her and smeared the love potion on his
garment
When the tunic grew warm, the Hydra's poison ate away his flesh
Deianira hangs herself when she learns what happens
He went to Mount Oita and built a pyre and had someone light it and he burned to smoke

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He received immortality and reconciled with Hera, and married her daughter Hebe

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