The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Ancient Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest...
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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...
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Hercule Poirot (redirect from Hercules Poirot)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Nicolaes Jonghelinck (section Labours of Hercules)
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)....
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Quintus Smyrnaeus. Fall of Troy, Book 6.270 ff Philostratus the Elder. Imagines 2.25 12 Labours Hercules' Eighth Labor: the Horses of Diomedes; Perseus Project...
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Christie's 33 Poirot novels and one short story collection (The Labours of Hercules). The “Titles” below link to Wikipedia articles describing the original...
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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...
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Stymphalian birds (category Labours of Hercules)
short-story compilation The Labours of Hercules, Hercule Poirot, in the course of pursuing cases paralleling the story of his namesake, deals with some...
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Times. Retrieved 6 January 2016. "Agatha Christie's Poirot: 'The Labours of Hercules'". ITV. Retrieved 5 January 2016. Graham, Alison. "Unforgotten: Series...
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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)...
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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...
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Lernaean Hydra (redirect from Hydra and Hercules)
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...
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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"...
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo (category 15th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
prominence in the modern view of Quattrocento art: the loss of his very large paintings of some of the Labours of Hercules, and "a name which looks difficult...
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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...
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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...
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Hesperides (redirect from Hercules 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...
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Hippolyta (redirect from Girdle of Hippolyte)
Seneca, Hercules Furens 245 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Hercules Furens 542 ff Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 21 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus...
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of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the process. Heracles encounters King Diomedes through performing his eighth labour. Eurystheus, King of Tiryns...
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Kyrenia Mountains (category Mountains of Northern Cyprus)
mythology because of the connection with one of the 12 labours of Hercules, the capture of the Kerynitis deer that lived there. This sacred deer of Artemis with...
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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"...
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Eleanor Tomlinson (category Actresses from the East Riding of Yorkshire)
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...
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with the same structure. Labours of Hercules, an ancient Greek tale of another Indo-European hero showing similarities to those of Rostam and Esfandiyār...
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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...
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the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and the protagonist at the centre of most of the episode's action. At the...
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Heracles (redirect from Glory of Hera)
Many popular stories were told of his life, the most famous being the twelve Labours of Hercules; Alexandrian poets of the Hellenistic age drew his mythology...
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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...
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The Twelve Labours of Hercules is a 1938 Australian radio serial by Max Afford based on the legend of Hercules. The serial was popular and sold overseas...
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