The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi, Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest...
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The Labours of Hercules is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1947 and in...
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Hercule Poirot (redirect from Hercules Poirot)
that the Preface to the Labours takes place at one date but that the labours are completed over a matter of twenty years. None of the explanations is especially...
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The Labours of Hercules) "The Lernaean Hydra" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The Arcadian Deer" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The...
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Hercules (Italian: Le Fatiche di Ercole, lit. 'The Labours of Hercules') is a 1958 Italian sword-and-sandal film based upon the Hercules and the Quest...
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October 24, 2021. "12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull". Nintendo America. Retrieved January 31, 2020. "12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull"...
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Times. Retrieved 6 January 2016. "Agatha Christie's Poirot: 'The Labours of Hercules'". ITV. Retrieved 5 January 2016. Graham, Alison. "Unforgotten: Series...
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Nicolaes Jonghelinck (section Labours of Hercules)
Jonghelinck's collection was Frans Floris, who made ten panels of the Labours of Hercules (which are now lost and only known through later engravings)....
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are miniature copies by the artist of two out of the three enormous paintings on canvas of the Labours of Hercules commissioned from Antonio and Piero...
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Hesperides (redirect from Hercules Hesperides)
The first of these two additional Labours was to steal the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Heracles first caught the Old Man of the Sea, the...
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo (category 15th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
prominence in the modern view of Quattrocento art: the loss of his very large paintings of some of the Labours of Hercules, and "a name which looks difficult...
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Madrid. It was from a series of the Labours of Hercules for the Hall of Realms in Madrid's Palacio del Buen Retiro. "Hercules and the Hydra - The Collection"...
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Countess Vera Rossakoff in the television adaptation of The Labours of Hercules, part of the final series of Agatha Christie's Poirot alongside David Suchet...
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Eleanor Tomlinson (category Actresses from the East Riding of Yorkshire)
She also appeared in the Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "The Labours of Hercules" (2013) as Alice Cunningham. In 2013 she starred in the TV series...
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canvas of the Labours of Hercules commissioned from Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo by Piero di Cosimo de' Medici for the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Medici...
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of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the process. Heracles encounters King Diomedes through performing his eighth labour. Eurystheus, King of Tiryns...
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Volubilis (redirect from Archaeological Site of Volubilis)
Mosaic of the Labours of Hercules Mosaic in the House of the Athlete Mosaic in the House of Wild Beasts The House of the Labours of Hercules is named...
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Lernaean Hydra (redirect from Hydra and Hercules)
monster is killed by Heracles (Hercules) as the second of his Twelve Labors. According to Hesiod, the Hydra was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna. It had...
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film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, both of whom also produced the...
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Inspector Japp (category Characters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction)
the plot. He also appears in the short story "The Flock of Geryon" (see The Labours of Hercules). Japp emerges however as a major character and partner...
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Augeas (redirect from Stables of Augeas)
brother of Actor, Tiphys and Diogeneia. His children were Epicaste, Phyleus, Agamede, Agasthenes, and Eurytus. The fifth Labour of Heracles (Hercules in Latin)...
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Antaeus (category Children of Poseidon)
Heracles as part of the Labours of Hercules. In Greek sources, he was the son of Poseidon and Gaia, who lived in the interior desert of Libya. His wife...
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Christie's 33 Poirot novels and one short story collection (The Labours of Hercules). The “Titles” below link to Wikipedia articles describing the original...
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Quintus Smyrnaeus. Fall of Troy, Book 6.270 ff Philostratus the Elder. Imagines 2.25 12 Labours Hercules' Eighth Labor: the Horses of Diomedes; Perseus Project...
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Capture of Cerberus, also from The Labours of Hercules. In Chapter 21, Poirot visits a solicitor by the name of Mr Endicott to confirm his suspicions of Nigel...
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with the same structure. Labours of Hercules, an ancient Greek tale of another Indo-European hero showing similarities to those of Rostam and Esfandiyār...
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work of the 6th century, and to be really an ancient sedia gestatoria. It has ivory carvings representing the labours of Hercules. A few pieces of an earlier...
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prominently in The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and Poirot was there at the time of "The Stymphalean Birds", collected in The Labours of Hercules (1947). In Part 4...
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Cerberus (redirect from Capture of Cerberus)
primarily known for his capture by Heracles, the last of Heracles' twelve labours. The etymology of Cerberus' name is uncertain. Ogden refers to attempts...
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the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and the protagonist at the centre of most of the episode's action. At the...
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