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    The Labours of Hercules or Labours of Heracles (Greek: ἆθλοι, âthloi Latin: Labores) are a series of tasks carried out by Heracles, the greatest of the...
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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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  • (1947). "Prologue". The Labours of Hercules. Collins. Christie, Agatha (1947a). "The Apples of the Hesperides". The Labours of Hercules. Collins. Christie...
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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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    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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    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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    Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie The Labours of Hercules is divided into twelve stories, each named after one of the Twelve Labours of Hercules...
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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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    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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  • one short story collection (The Labours of Hercules). While Christie's novels are set contemporaneously with the time of writing (between the 1920s and...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    intense than Hercules' Twelve Labours. Hercules fights Kratos to claim the throne as God of War, which was left vacant after Zeus stripped Kratos of his powers...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    in the Schloss Wittenberg, which contains other paintings of the Labours of Hercules. Hercules, armed with bow and arrow, is ready to shoot at two winged...
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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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  • 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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    the Labours of Hercules, dated to the 3rd century, or with clipei (shields) with images of deities. There were also numerous statues, copies of Greek...
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    Cretan Bull (category Labours of Hercules)
    Campbell Vol. 4) (Greek poetry C1st AD) Philippus of Thessalonica, The Twelve Labors of Hercules (The Greek Classics ed. Miller Vol 3 1909 p. 397) (Greek...
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