Heracles (Hercules)

 

Birth of Heracles and snakes

Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way 1550

The Labours

Map showing first six (Peloponnesian) labours

1. Heracles and Nemean lion

2. Heracles, Iolaus, and Hydra

3. Cerynitian Deer

4. Erymanthian Boar

5. Augeian Stables

6. Stymphalian Birds

7. Cretan Bull

8. Man-eating horses

9. Heracles and Amazon

10. Cattle of Geryon

11. Apples of Hesperides

12. Cerberus

Heracles with club and lion skin

Hylas and the Nymphs, Waterhouse, 1896

Omphale with club and lion-skin Rome, 200 AD

Heracles wrestling Achelous for hand of Deianeira