• Thumbnail for Labours of Hercules
    The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the...
    45 KB (5,758 words) - 16:47, 15 April 2024
  • 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...
    56 KB (9,169 words) - 06:52, 6 January 2024
  • 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...
    71 KB (9,000 words) - 20:43, 26 April 2024
  • 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...
    17 KB (1,909 words) - 07:00, 19 February 2024
  • 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...
    15 KB (1,623 words) - 06:49, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicolaes Jonghelinck
    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)....
    6 KB (647 words) - 20:20, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mares of Diomedes
    Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie The Labours of Hercules is divided into twelve stories, each named after one of the Twelve Labours of Hercules...
    11 KB (1,380 words) - 10:59, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hercules and the Hydra (Pollaiuolo)
    miniature copies by the artist of two out of the three enormous (some 12 feet square) paintings on canvas of the Labours of Hercules commissioned from Antonio...
    6 KB (700 words) - 01:05, 2 May 2024
  • one short story collection (The Labours of Hercules). While Christie's novels are set contemporaneously with the time of writing (between the 1920s and...
    87 KB (652 words) - 07:05, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hercules Slaying Antaeus
    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...
    5 KB (666 words) - 01:05, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nemean lion
    Nemean lion (redirect from Lion of Nemea)
    Selene, who threw him from the Moon at Hera's request. The first of Heracles' twelve labours, set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to slay the Nemean...
    10 KB (1,042 words) - 22:26, 10 February 2024
  • 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)...
    12 KB (1,334 words) - 22:12, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lernaean Hydra
    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...
    19 KB (2,196 words) - 19:54, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hercules and the Hydra (Zurbarán)
    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"...
    1 KB (123 words) - 01:05, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tom Austen
    Times. Retrieved 6 January 2016. "Agatha Christie's Poirot: 'The Labours of Hercules'". ITV. Retrieved 5 January 2016. Graham, Alison. "Unforgotten: Series...
    11 KB (580 words) - 12:10, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 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...
    31 KB (3,356 words) - 19:25, 11 March 2024
  • 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"...
    292 KB (15,186 words) - 23:56, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hercules in ancient Rome
    In ancient Roman religion and myth, Hercules was venerated as a divinized hero and incorporated into the legends of Rome's founding. The Romans adapted...
    11 KB (1,344 words) - 08:52, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antaeus
    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...
    15 KB (1,528 words) - 08:50, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pillars of Hercules
    Pillars of Hercules are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar...
    14 KB (1,524 words) - 05:15, 17 April 2024
  • orphaned son of the king of Thebes. The mythological Twelve Labours of Hercules are hardly ever displayed in the film, notably when Hercules is cleaning...
    29 KB (2,572 words) - 22:01, 4 May 2024
  • 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...
    76 KB (7,853 words) - 03:36, 25 March 2024
  • Sarcophagus of Genzano is a Roman sarcophagus from Genzano, which is in store at the British Museum. It features the Twelve Labours of Hercules. It has been...
    3 KB (331 words) - 15:16, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stymphalian birds
    Stymphalian birds (category Labours of Hercules)
    defeated by Heracles (Hercules) in his sixth labour for Eurystheus. Heracles could not go into the marsh to reach the nests of the birds, as the ground...
    14 KB (1,603 words) - 13:58, 3 May 2024
  • with the same structure. Labours of Hercules, an ancient Greek tale of another Indo-European hero showing similarities to those of Rostam and Esfandiyār...
    7 KB (934 words) - 02:20, 26 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eleanor Tomlinson
    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...
    15 KB (1,071 words) - 01:52, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hippolyta
    Seneca, Hercules Furens 245 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Hercules Furens 542 ff Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 21 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus...
    12 KB (1,245 words) - 01:42, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agatha Christie's Poirot
    adapted into a 1-hour episode, the collection entitled The Labours of Hercules, consisting of twelve short stories linked by an initial scene-setting story...
    52 KB (3,720 words) - 16:05, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diomedes of Thrace
    of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the process. Heracles encounters King Diomedes through performing his eighth labour. Eurystheus, King of Tiryns...
    5 KB (551 words) - 07:56, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cerberus
    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...
    97 KB (9,484 words) - 14:04, 10 April 2024