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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
.
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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.