The Basics
Vocab
Labors
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Weapon of Choice
100
This type of story usually involves Gods, Goddesses, heroes and overcoming obstacles.  Stories take place in Greece.  Hercules is an example of one.
What is a myth?
100
The skin of an animal
What is its hide?
100
The number of labors Hercules was originally given
What is 10?
100
She was married to Zeus and had a bad temper
Who is Hera?
100
Hercules used this to protect himself from snakes as a baby
What are his bare hands?
200
He was Hercules' father
Who is Zeus?
200
Amazing accomplishments or actions
What are feats?
200
The reason why Hercules felt the need to cleanse his spirit
What is he killed his family in a fit of rage?
200
She was Hercules' mortal mother
Who is Alcmene?
200
This was what Hercules used to skin the hide from the Nemean lion
What was it's own sharp claws?
300
This scorned woman placed a curse on Hercules which caused him to kill his family
Who is Hera?
300
The state of living or being remembered forever
What is immortality?
300
The way Hercules was finally able to defeat the Nemean lion
What is choking it to death?
300
This is the reason why Atlas was able to get into Zeus' garden that was guarded by the nymphs
What is Atlas was the father of the nymphs?
300
This was given to Deianira by Nessos to be placed on Hercules if they ever began to drift apart
What is a poison soaked cloak?
400
This was the total number of labors that Hercules had to complete
What is 12?
400
A pile of wood used to burn a body.  Hercules laid down on one of these when he wanted to die.
What is a pyre?
400
The reason why Hercules didn't kill the Ceryneain hind
What is he didn't want to upset Artemis (the hind's owner)?
400
This was the king who Hercules had to perform the labors for
Who is King Eurystheus?
400
This is the weapon that Hercules used against the Ceryneain hind
What is a net?
500
She was Hercules' second wife
Who is Deianira?
500
In stories and myths, these little spirit-like fairies are often very mean and viscious
What are nymphs?
500
This is the reason why Hercules ended up killing the leader of the Amazonian women
What is Hera told them Hercules was going to kidnap their queen and the women were about to attack him?
500
This was the centaur who attacked Hercules' wife in the middle of the river and then gave her the poison-soaked cloak
Who is Nessos?
500
This is the weapon that Hercules is often pictured with in ancient Greek and Roman art
What is a wooden club?
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