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Eurystheus instructed Hercules to kill the Stymphalian birds. All the surroundings of the Arcadian city of Stymphala almost turned into the desert. They attacked both animals and people and tore them apart with their copper claws and beaks. But the most terrible thing was that the feathers of these birds were of solid bronze, and the birds, taking off, could drop them, like arrows, at anyone who would have thought of attacking them ...
Rejoicing that his son would soon be born, the aegis Zeus said to the gods: Hear, gods and goddesses, what I will tell you: my heart tells me to say this! A great hero will be born today; he will rule over all his relatives, who trace their lineage from my son, the great Perseus ...
Having matured, Hercules defeated the king of Orchomenus Ergin, to whom Thebes paid a large tribute every year. He killed Ergin during the battle, and imposed a tribute on the Minyan Orchomenes, which was twice as much as that paid by Thebes. For this feat, the king of Thebes, Creon, gave Hercules his daughter Megara to wife, and the gods sent him three beautiful sons ...
For a long time Hercules searched for on the wooded slopes of the mountains and in the gorges of the lion's lair, finally, when the sun began to lean to the west, Hercules found a lair in a gloomy gorge; it was in a huge cave that had two exits. Hercules filled one of the willows with huge stones and waited for the lion, hiding behind the stones ...
After the first feat, Eurystheus sent Hercules to kill the Lernean hydra. It was a monster with the body of a snake and nine dragon heads. Like the Nemean lion, the hydra was born of Typhon and the Echidna. The hydra lived in a swamp near the city of Lerna and, crawling out of their lair, destroyed whole herds and devastated all the surroundings ...
Eurystheus knew that a wonderful Kerinean doe lived in Arcadia, sent by the goddess Artemis to punish people. This fallow deer devastated the fields. Eurystheus sent Hercules to catch her and ordered him to deliver the deer alive to Mycenae. This doe was extraordinarily beautiful, her horns were golden, and her legs were copper ...
Eurystheus again gave him an order: Hercules was to kill the Erymanthian boar. This boar, possessing monstrous strength, lived on Mount Erimanth and devastated the surroundings of the city of Psophis. He did not give people mercy and killed them with his huge fangs. Hercules went to Mount Erimanth. On the way, he visited the wise centaur Fall ...
Soon Eurystheus gave a new assignment to Hercules. He had to cleanse the entire cattle yard of Augeus, the king of Elis, the son of the radiant Helios, from the manure. The sun god gave his son incalculable riches. The herds of Avgius were especially numerous. Among his herds were three hundred bulls with legs as white as snow ...
To fulfill the seventh order of Eurystheus, Hercules had to leave Greece and go to the island of Crete. Eurystheus instructed him to bring the Cretan bull to Mycenae. This bull was sent by the earth-shaker Poseidon to the king of Crete Minos, the son of Europe; Minos had to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon ...
After taming the Cretan bull, Hercules, on behalf of Eurystheus, had to go to Thrace to the king of the Bistones, Diomedes. This king had horses of wondrous beauty and strength. They were chained in stalls with iron chains, as no bonds could hold them. King Diomedes fed these horses with human meat. He threw them to be devoured by all foreigners ...
Hercules chose a difficult time for Admet. Great sorrow reigned in the house of King Fer. His wife Alkestida was about to die. Once the goddesses of fate, the great moiraes, at the request of Apollo, determined that Admet could get rid of death if at the last hour of his life someone agreed to voluntarily descend instead of him into the dark kingdom of Hades ...
The fame of the exploits of the son of Zeus has long reached the country of the Amazons. Therefore, when the ship of Hercules docked at Themiscira, the Amazons with the queen came out to meet the hero. They looked in amazement at the great son of Zeus, who stood out, like an immortal god, among his companions-heroes. Queen Hippolyta asked the great hero Hercules ...
On the way back to Tiryns from the country of the Amazons, Hercules arrived on ships with his army to Troy. A grievous spectacle appeared before the eyes of the heroes when they moored to the shore not far from Troy. They saw the beautiful daughter of the King of Troy Laomedont, Hesiona, chained to a rock near the very shore of the sea. She was doomed, like Andromeda, to be torn apart by a monster emerging from the sea ...
Soon after returning from a campaign in the country of the Amazons, Hercules set out on a new feat. Eurystheus instructed him to drive the cows of the great Geryon, the son of Chrysaor and the oceanis Calliroi, to Mycenae. The path to Geryon was far away. Hercules had to reach the westernmost end of the earth, those places where the radiant sun god Helios descends from the sky at sunset ...
As soon as Hercules returned to Tiryns, he again sent him to the feat of Eurystheus. This was already the eleventh feat that Hercules was supposed to accomplish in the service of Eurystheus. Hercules had to overcome incredible difficulties during this feat. He was supposed to descend into the gloomy, horror-filled underworld of Hades and bring to Eurystheus the guardian of the underworld, the terrible hellish dog Cerberus ...
The most difficult feat of Hercules in the service of Eurystheus was his last, twelfth feat. He had to go to the great titan Atlas, who holds the firmament on his shoulders, and get three golden apples from his gardens, which were watched by the Atlas daughters of the Hesperides ...
On the island of Euboea, in the city of Oikhalia, the king of Euryth ruled. The fame of Evritus, as the most skillful archer, went far throughout Greece. The arrow-leader Apollo himself was his teacher, he even gave him a bow and arrows. Once, in his youth, he studied archery from Evryta and Hercules ...
After Euryth drove Hercules out of Oikhalia, the great hero came to Calydon, the city of Aetolia. Oineus ruled there. Hercules came to Oineus to ask for the hand of his daughter Deianira, as he promised Meleager to marry her in the kingdom of shadows ...
On the island of Kos, Father Zeus sent his beloved daughter Athena-Pallas to Hercules to call on the great hero to help in their fight against the giants. The giants were spawned by the goddess Gaia from drops of blood overthrown by Cronus Uranus. They were monstrous giants with snakes instead of legs, with shaggy long hair on their heads and beards ...
There they made a huge bonfire and laid on it the greatest of heroes. The sufferings of Hercules are becoming stronger, the poison of the Lernaean hydra penetrates deeper into his body. Hercules tears off his poisoned cloak, he stuck tightly to his body; Together with the cloak, Hercules tears off pieces of skin, and the terrible torments become even more intolerable. Only one salvation from these superhuman torments is death ...
After the death of Hercules, his children and his mother Alcmene lived in Tiryns with the eldest son of Hercules, Gill. They did not live long there. Out of hatred for Hercules, Eurystheus drove the children of the greatest hero out of their father's possessions and pursued them wherever they tried to hide. The children of Hercules wandered all over Greece for a long time: at last, they were sheltered by the aged Iolaus, the nephew and friend of Hercules ...
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And Alcmene. But Alcmene was Amphitryon's wife, and she had twins. The elder was frail and weak Eurystheus, and the mighty Hercules was the younger, so he had to be in the service of his older brother all his life. But Zeus, knowing that this happened thanks to the cunning tricks of Hera, entered into an indestructible agreement with her, according to which only 12 years Hercules will obey his older brother, and then become free and immortal. Hercules received a good education, but best of all he succeeded in affairs where it was necessary to show strength and daring. At the request of Eurystheus, Hercules destroyed and then killed the next, 3 feat of Hercules - the Stimphalia birds, the massacre of which brought people peace and tranquility.
The Romans gave Hercules the name Hercules.
What are these birds?
These monstrous birds lived on the shores of Lake Stymphal in Arcadia. In those days, it was the wilderness of the highlands in which Pan lived. And the birds themselves appeared at the behest of the evil and cruel god Ares. He asked the handyman Hephaestus to forge the birds from copper. Their brass bodies were invulnerable to humans with their weapons.
The birds turned the whole area into a desert. With their copper poisoned beaks and claws, they tore to pieces both people and animals. But the worst thing was their feathers, which were also forged from bronze. Taking off, they dropped them on the one who dared to attack them. Poisonous feather-arrows brought death to all living things. Fighting these birds is certain death. And sent to such a Stymphalian bird had to be destroyed at any cost.
How the hero got down to business
After listening to the messenger Koprey, Hercules decided to take refuge in the forests surrounding the poisonous lake and wait until the birds take off in the morning at dawn. In the meantime, he threw on himself the strong skin of a Nemean lion and received from his patroness Pallas Athena two copper tympanes, which Hephaestus forged. The warrior goddess suggested that it is best to hit the tympans and raise the birds with a ringing sound. She advised Hercules to stand on a high hill next to the forest where the Stimphalia birds nested, and when they take off, shoot them. This will be the feat of Hercules. Stymphalian birds will be exterminated.
Battle
Hercules was standing on a high hill when a huge flock flew up into the sky like a black cloud and covered the sun. Birds circled over the hero and dropped deadly sharp feathers. But the skin of a lion protected both the head and body of Hercules.
He only had time to pull the bowstring and hit the monsters with golden arrows, which were presented to him by the light Apollo. Then he began to pick up bird feathers and shoot them with their own weapons. With groans they fell into the lake and drowned in it. The flock of birds was enormous. The feat of Hercules was also great. The Stymphalian birds had to be eliminated, although he was already beginning to get tired.
End of the fight
When the hero's arrows began to end, then in the distance he saw his patroness, who was watching the course of the battle.
And Hercules remembered that you can beat the tympans. The birds were frightened of these sounds. In fear of the hero's deadly arrows and deafening sounds, they soared high, high into the heavens and disappeared behind the clouds. Where did they go? Away from the heroic inhabitants of the Peloponnese, to Pontus Euxine. This was the feat of Hercules. Stymphalian birds have ceased to nest in Arcadia forever. And this area has become the happiest and most calm, bringing only pleasure to people. Everything blossomed in Arcadia. This was the third feat of Hercules. The Stymphalian birds have ceased their robberies in Greece for good. The Greeks sighed calmly. They were no longer annoyed by the Stymphalian birds. The feat of Hercules, a summary of which is set out here, was continued by the courageous Argonauts. They finished them off.
Hercules
After that, Hercules more and more fulfilled the impossible demands of the weak and cowardly Eurystheus. Hercules fought with the unusually beautiful Kerinean deer, which made a desert out of all the fields. He killed a huge and formidable fire-breathing boar that lived on Mount Erimanth, cleaned out the Cretan bull.
And these are far from all the exploits of Hercules. He met many horrors on his way. He even had to go down to the dark kingdom of Hades. Finally, the hero prayed to his father Zeus, and after twelve years of service he was freed from Eurystheus. After that, Hercules performed many more feats to help people. And when the time came for him to die, Athena, along with the fleet-footed Hermes, took him to heaven. So the great hero entered the host of immortals. And the eternally young Hebe became his wife. He received such a reward for his exploits on earth.
People remember the exploits of Hercules
He became famous on earth as a fighter against injustice. Hercules became the ideal for the Stoics, who greatly appreciated his endurance, courage and willingness to serve people. The Burgundian royal family believed that it descended from Hercules and Queen Eliza. Christians subsequently treated Hercules with great respect, and his stucco images adorn the temples in Pergamum along with scenes from the Old Testament. Hercules personifies the strength of the Christian spirit.
Description of the myth according to N.A. Kunu
Eurystheus entrusted Hercules kill the Stimfali birds ... All the surroundings of the Arcadian city of Stymphala almost turned into the desert.
They attacked both animals and people and tore them apart with their copper claws and beaks. But the worst thing was that the feathers of these birds were from hard bronze and the birds, flying up, could drop them, like arrows, on anyone who thought to attack them.
Strategy
It was difficult for Hercules to fulfill this order of Eurystheus. The warrior Pallas Athena came to his aid. She gave Hercules two copper tympans they were forged by the god Hephaestus, and ordered Hercules to stand on a high hill near the forest where the Stymphalian birds nested, and hit the tympans ; when the birds take off, shoot them with a bow.
And so Hercules did. Ascending the hill, he struck the tympans, and there was such a deafening ringing that the birds flew in a huge flock over the forest and began circling in terror over it.
They rained down their feathers, sharp as arrows, on the ground, but the feathers did not fall into Hercules, who stood on the hill. The hero grabbed his bow and began to shoot the birds with deadly arrows.
Victory!
In fear, the Stymphalian birds soared up behind the clouds and disappeared from the eyes of Hercules. The birds flew far beyond the borders of Greece, to the shores of the Euxine Pontus, and never returned to the vicinity of Stymphalus.
Eurystheus instructed Hercules to kill the Stymphalian birds. All the surroundings of the Arcadian city of Stymphala almost turned into the desert. They attacked both animals and people and tore them apart with their copper claws and beaks. But the most terrible thing was that the feathers of these birds were of solid bronze, and the birds, flying up, could drop them, like arrows, at anyone who would try to attack them. It was difficult for Hercules to fulfill this order of Eurystheus. The warrior Pallas Athena came to his aid. She gave Hercules two copper tympans, they were forged by the god Hephaestus, and ordered Hercules to stand on a high hill near the forest where the Stymphalian birds nested, and hit the tympans; when the birds take off, shoot them with a bow. And so Hercules did. Ascending the hill, he struck the tympans, and there was such a deafening ringing that the birds flew in a huge flock over the forest and began circling in terror over it. They rained down their feathers, sharp as arrows, on the ground, but the feathers did not fall into Hercules, who stood on the hill. The hero grabbed his bow and began to shoot the birds with deadly arrows. In fear, the Stymphalian birds soared up behind the clouds and disappeared from the eyes of Hercules. The birds flew far beyond the borders of Greece, to the shores of the Euxine Pontus, and never returned to the vicinity of Stymphalus. So Hercules fulfilled this order of Eurystheus and returned to Tiryns, but immediately he had to go on an even more difficult feat.
