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Mythology
Heracles
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Classics
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2008

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Achelous
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River god who pursued Deineira, Heracles' second wife
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Alcmene
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mother of Heracles, queen of Thebes, wife of King Amphitryon
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Amphitryon
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King of Thebes; husband of Alcmene, who was the mother of Heracles (Zeus disguised himself as Amphitryon)
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Cerberus
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Three-headed dog; was captured as a labor
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Deianeira
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second wife of Heracles; kind of psycho; gave him that poisoned shirt
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Eurystheus
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King that Heracles was doing all these labors for
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Iolaus
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helps Heracles to sear the necks of the Hydra shut with a torch
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Iphikles
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Heracles' twin brother
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Linus
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music teacher; Heracles killed him after being corrected once too often
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Megara
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Heracles' first wife; killed her and their children in a fit of insanity
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Mount Oeta
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Location of Heracles' funeral pyre
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Nessus
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Centaur who tried to rape Deianeira and gave her the poison for her shirt
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