Hercules' Labors: Fact Or Fiction?

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HERCULES' LABOR S FACTOR

FICTION?

1969 'nr-,....,1

A 11

n,Jr

PlJBLISHERS

- CHICAGO

Library

of Congress

Catalog,,e

C'ard No.

67-17574

First Printing: April 1969

CONTENTS

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in the United States of America First American Edition All Rights Reserved

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l 969

BY ARGONAu·r

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Preface ..... ............................... .ix f. Introduction .............................. xv If. A tittle known but signijlCant story from the North Sea coast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ill. 1r1e Cvcle of the Twelve l,abors of Herac/es . .... 6 IV. 11zeFirst Labor: 11,e Lion ofNemea . ......... 9 V. The Second Labor: Hydra, the Dragon ofLerna .. 14 VI. The 111irdand Fourth tabor: 71ie Erymanthian boar and the hind of Ceryneia ... .............. 18 21 VII. 11ze Fzj/h Labor: 11ze Stymphalian birds . ..... VIII. The Sixth [,abor: 11zeStables ofAugias . ..... 29 [X. Heracles, 11zeHero of Labor . ............... 33 X. The Seventh [,abor: The liull of Crete . ........ 39 XI. 11,e Giant Talas . ......................... 45 59 XII. 11zeGods and the Son of Talas ............. XIII. Ullikwnmi, 71,e Stone Monster of the Hittites. 63 XIV. 71,e Saga of Balder and the Myth of Oedipus . . 69 XV. The Highth Labor: 71ze Horses ofDiomedes . .. 77 XVI. The Ninth Labor: 71,e Belt of Ilippolyte . .... 81 XVII. The Tenth Labor: 11ze Cattle of Geryon . ... .85 XVIII. The Ueventh Labor: f!esperic/es and Atlas . . 93 XL¥. T'lze Twelfth Labor: The Ile/lhounc/ C'erberus.103 XX. The Mycenaean Greeks, Great Performers of the Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 08 Bibliography . ............................ II9 Index .... ............................... 125

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