赫拉克勒斯

From the words of Odysseus ,we can feel that he was astounded by the image of Heracles. So , how could Heracles became such a big guy of legend? We can percept it deeper from next page.

In this page , we can see many interesting relationships.

His father was Zeus, the Zeus, king of the gods.

His mother was Alcmene, a mortal woman.

Together, they had a boy, half human , half god.

But Zeus’s queen, Hera, saw this bastard child (私生子) as an insult, a living reminder of her husband’s infidelity [ nf 'del t ]( 背叛). So she postponed the pregnancy of Alcmene to let Eurystheus, the boy’s 。brother born first, and become the king of Tiryns（梯林斯）.

Alcmene was worried about the safety of his son. So she just hid him in a field. But soon Athena found the little boy ,with Hera. Ironically, Hera gave him a breast-feed cause she didn’t know who he was. This made him a Eternal Life.

Alcmene named the boy Heracles, which means “glory of Hera”. But this failed to appease the goddess. When Hera found the truth, she just wanted him dead. But just like this picture, she failed. But she won’t give up, she indicated Eurystheus to punish Heracles, so Heracles was sent to complete 12 Labors, the most famous tasks. But you all guess that Heracles finished it, and Athena laurel him. (使戴桂冠).

Next we have to talk about the most famous 12 Labors.

First ,he was asked to slay the Nemean [ni'mi: n] Lion, which was his greatest labor! This was no ordinary beast. It has a hide so tough, no weapon could penetrate it. Yet he still destroyed it, with no sword[s d] or a spear or arrows ['ær ]. He did it with bare hands. And I searched and found that the Star sign Leo is just the Avatar ['æv tɑr] of Nemean Lion.

Prometheus advised him to come to Titan Atlas who held up

the celestial spheres [s 'lest l] [sf r] (天球), and asked help from Atlas.

In the end , Heracles got the apples.

(12) 赫拉克勒斯制服冥王三头犬 ['s :b r s]

After completing these tasks, Heracles joined the Argonauts ['ɑ g( )n t] (阿尔戈) in a search for the Golden Fleece. (金羊毛)He also fell in love with Princess Iole of Oechalia. （ 俄卡利亚国的公主伊俄勒）

However, once again, Hera drove Heracles mad .

And he threw Iphitus （伊菲托斯）, his friend ,over the city wall to death. Once again, Heracles purified himself through three years of servitude

['s v tju d]—this time to Queen Omphale [' mf li:] of Lydia.

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[' mf li:]

[,di: 'nai r ; ,dei -] ['nes s] n. 内萨斯（人头马腿怪物） And the other point is that, in this page ,(北半球看是倒着的，南半球是正着的)you can see a star map of Heracles(武仙座) . His mortal body was gone, and he became a full god. The animals he killed were still surrounded him . But he is still so modest that he is on bended knee(单

膝跪地) though he was already a god. I think it is a moving star map of god. That’s all ,thank you.