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Hercules Questions *For the following questions: put your answers on a separate piece of paper. Be sure to use enough detail to ensure a complete answer. 1. What does Heracles mean? 2. What was sent to kill him as an infant and what did he do? 3. What happened to his children? 4. What did Heracles wear as a trophy? 5. Who was Megara? 6. Why did Heracles have to perform the “labors?” a. On the back list each of the labors and what each represented. 7. Who was Antaeus? 8. Who was Philoctetes? 9. What led to the death of Heracles? 10. How does the story end? 11. What is hubris? What is Arêté? Name:____________________________ Date:___________________________ Hercules In the myth Born __________ became _______. In the movie Born __________ became _______. Father’s name description of father Mother’s name description of mother Who sent snakes to kill Hercules? Meg The Centaur In the Underworld (Hades) Heaven . Put a check next to the Labors that you see in the movie. 1 Fill in the crossword using the clues below. 2 3 4 5 8 6 9 10 11 12 7 13 14 Across Down 2. A female horse. 1. Greek hero with great strength. 5. Number of labors Heracles had to do for King Eurystheus. 3. The father of Heracles. 6. Weapon of Heracles. 4. Three-headed dog that guards the gates to Hades. 8. A nine-headed monster that Heracles defeated. 7. An animal that Heracles had to captures on Crete. 10. A place where animals are kept. 8. Greek goddess who caused great trouble for Heracles. 11. Animal skin that Heracles wore. 13. Animals that Hera sent to kill Heracles when he was a baby. 14. How many days it took Heracles to clean the Augean stables. 9. The god who helped Heracles get the apples of Hesperides. 12. Something found at Delphi. Find the underlined words below in the grid to the left. Hercules was the greatest Greek hero. He was known for his courage and strength. He was the son of Zeus, but he lived a hard life because the Goddess Hera was jealous of him. Because of her, he had to do twelve difficult tasks for King Eurystheus, who was the enemy of Hercules. The Twelve Labors of Hercules: Hoping Hercules would be killed, King Eurystheus ordered Hercules to do the following dangerous tasks: (1) Kill the lion of Nemea. (2) Kill the nine-headed hydra. (3) Capture the golden deer of Artemis. (4) Kill a wild boar. (5) Clean the Augean stables. (6) Kill some man-eating birds with claws of brass (called Stymphalian birds). (7) Capture a vicious bull from Crete. (8) Steal wild man-eating mares. (9) Steal the girdle of the queen of the Amazons. (10) Steal cows guarded by a giant. (11) Steal golden apples from some nymphs. (12) Capture the three-headed guard dog of Hades.