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Map of Hercules, CA with School District Boundaries

School	Type	Students	Student to Teacher Ratio	Free or Reduced Lunch	School District
Hanna Ranch Elementary	Public	469	23.9	28%
Hercules Middle School	Public	632	29.8	45%
Lupine Hills Elementary	Public	383	23. 2	38%
Ohlone Elementary	Public	359	22.6	32%
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Number of Schools

Number of Schools in Nearby Cities

Number of Schools in Hercules Compared Statewide

Hercules has 4 school(s)

Number of Schools

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Student Enrollment

Student Enrollment in Nearby Cities

Number of Students in Hercules Compared Statewide

Hercules has 1843 students(s)

Number of Schools

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Student Teacher Ratio

Student Teacher Ratio in Nearby Cities

Student Teacher Ratio in Nearby Cities

Pinole	22. 5
Crockett	22.6
El Sobrante	22.6
San Pablo	22.7
Rodeo	24
Hercules	25.2

Student Teacher Ratio in Hercules Compared Statewide

Hercules has a 25.2 student teacher ratio

Student Teacher Ratio in Hercules Compared Statewide

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Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage

Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage in Nearby Cities

Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage in Nearby Cities

El Sobrante	0.3416
Hercules	0.3673
Pinole	0.4364
Rodeo	0.5087
Crockett	0. 6976
San Pablo	0.8174

Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage in Hercules Compared Statewide

Hercules has a 36.7% Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage

Free and Reduced Lunch Percentage in Hercules Compared Statewide

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Ohlone Elementary School Rating Detail / Grades KG-5 – Hercules, CA

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Raw data sources:

• Test Scores: Edfacts (U.S. Department of Education), State departments of education.
• Expenditures: National Center for Education Statistics.
• Educational Environment: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau).

Date(s) & Update Frequency:

• Test data: Reflects 2018 – 2019 school year [note on school closures TBD].
• Expenditures: 2018
• Educational Environment: 2018 (latest available). Updated annually.

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Address

201 Turquoise Dr.

Hercules,
CA 94547

Phone

(510) 231-1443

District

WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED

County

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

Type of School

Regular elementary or secondary

Magnet School

No

Charter School

No

Students Enrolled

483

Classroom Teachers

20

School
Quality
Compared to California

(10
is best)

Better than
60. 0%
of CA
schools.

School
Quality
Compared to U.S.

(10
is best)

Better than
49.1%
of U.S.
schools.

Grade 3

60
50
40
30
20
10
0

47%

49%

42%

48%

52%

50%

Proficiency in Reading and Math

Proficiency in Reading

Proficiency in Math

School

State

Grade 4

60
50
40
30
20
10
0

45%

47%

42%

49%

47%

45%

Proficiency in Reading and Math

Proficiency in Reading

Proficiency in Math

School

State

Grade 5

70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

80
60
40
20
0

50%

45%

57%

51%

42%

38%

50%

45%

57%

51%

42%

38%

Proficiency in Reading and Math

Proficiency in Reading

Proficiency in Math

School

State

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT BY GRADE	NUMBER OF STUDENTS	PERCENTAGE
Kindergarten	83	17. 2%
Grade 1	86	17.8%
Grade 2	76	15.7%
Grade 3	77	15.9%
Grade 4	80	16.6%
Grade 5	81	16.8%
Total	483	100%

Economic Groups	This School	This District	This State
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED	33. 5%	65.9%	58.7%
FREE LUNCH ELIGIBLE	29.2%	57.1%	52.3%
REDUCED LUNCH ELIGIBLE	4.3%	8.9%	6.4%

HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS	DISTRICT FOR THIS SCHOOL	STATE
Number Of Households	85,814	13,103,114
Single Parent Households With Children	12. 2%	10.6%
Adults With At Least A High School Diploma	82.8%	83.9%
Adults With At Least A Bachelor’s Degree	34.9%	34.7%

For This District	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$7,735	$216,487,180	41. 8%
Support Expenditures
Student	$1,096	$30,674,848	5.9%
Staff	$1,073	$30,031,124	5.8%
General Administration	$196	$5,485,648	1.1%
School Administration	$918	$25,692,984	5.0%
Operation	$1,387	$38,819,356	7.5%
Transportation	$341	$9,543,908	1.8%
Other	$965	$27,008,420	5.2%
Total Support	$5,976	$167,256,288	32.3%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$4,795	$134,202,460	25.9%
Total Expenditures	$18,506	$517,945,928	100. 0%

For The State	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$8,356	$50,163,077,615	48.9%
Support Expenditures
Student	$884	$5,306,242,206	5.2%
Staff	$863	$5,178,254,236	5.0%
General Administration	$215	$1,291,487,537	1.3%
School Administration	$923	$5,541,916,109	5.4%
Operation	$1,311	$7,872,234,116	7.7%
Transportation	$303	$1,818,082,742	1.8%
Other	$665	$3,989,805,237	3.9%
Total Support	$5,163	$30,997,440,957	30. 2%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$3,580	$21,494,994,026	20.9%
Total Expenditures	$17,099	$102,656,107,113	100.0%

For The Nation	Per Student	Total	% Of Total
Instructional Expenditures	$7,549	$372,153,103,143	49.7%
Support Expenditures
Student	$792	$39,020,154,935	5.2%
Staff	$618	$30,487,652,661	4.1%
General Administration	$258	$12,720,931,842	1.7%
School Administration	$730	$35,978,592,512	4.8%
Operation	$1,169	$57,607,988,317	7. 7%
Transportation	$527	$26,002,463,553	3.5%
Other	$459	$22,633,739,814	3.0%
Total Support	$4,553	$224,451,138,461	30.0%
Non-instructional Expenditures	$3,074	$151,519,765,183	20.3%
Total Expenditures	$15,176	$748,124,887,521	100.0%

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Ohlone Elementary Hercules CA – Elementary school

Contact Ohlone Elementary

Address: 1616 Pheasant Dr. , 94547 Hercules (California)

Phone: (510) 231-1443

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Ranking

The school ranks 2029 of 5662. The previous year the ranking was 1872 of 5692.

The average standard score for Ohlone Elementary is 60.2144

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Hercules cartoon.

Hercules (animated series) Phil from Hercules what kind of animal

The Greeks called Hercules Hercules. He was not endowed with great intelligence, but his courage overshadowed any lack of cunning. Hercules was easily annoyed by outbursts of rage at innocent passers-by, and then regretted, felt guilty for what he had done and was ready to accept any punishment. Only supernatural powers could defeat him. In Greek mythology, only two figures – Hercules and Dionysus from ordinary people became completely immortal and were worshiped as gods.

Hercules was the son of Zeus and Alcmene. Alcmene had a husband Amphitrion, an outstanding Greek warrior and heir to the throne of Tiryns. One night, when Amphitrion was on a campaign, Zeus appeared to Alcmene disguised as her husband. When Amphitryon returned, the blind prophet Tiresias told him that Alcmene would give birth to a child who would become a great hero.

Hercules fighting the Nemean lion

Alcmene gave birth to twin boys Hercules and Iphicles. When the goddess Hera discovered that Zeus had seduced Alcmene and Hercules was born from him, she was furious. Hera was jealous of Zeus and tried to kill the baby by sending two poisonous snakes to him. The child strangled the snakes in his crib. Although Hera failed to kill Hercules, she pursued him throughout her life and brought him much suffering and punishment.

Lessons of Hercules

Like most Greek youths, Hercules attended music lessons. Once Linus, his mentor, taught Hercules to play the lyre. Hercules, disappointed with his game, became furious and broke the lyre on Linus’s head. Linus died instantly, and Hercules was shocked and very sorry. He didn’t want to kill his teacher. He simply did not know his strength and did not learn to control it.

The miraculous attainment of immortality

At the time when Hercules was very young, he went to fight against the Minyan king Ergin, to whom Thebes paid tribute. As a reward for liberation from tribute, the king of Thebes gave Hecules the hand of his daughter Megara. Hercules and Megara had three children. One day, Hercules was returning home from a trip, and Hera sent him into a fit of madness, during which he killed his wife and children. When Hercules came to his senses, he was horrified by his act. Heartbroken, he went to Delphi to the oracle to find out how he can atone for his guilt. The oracle told him to go to the king of Tiryns, Eurystheus, and follow any of his orders. The oracle also said that if Hercules completed all the tasks assigned to him, he would become immortal.

Twelve labors of Hercules

King Eurystheus gave Hercules 12 difficult and dangerous tasks. They became known as the twelve labors of Hercules.

The hero’s first task was to kill the Nemean Lion, a beast that terrorized a certain area and could not be killed by any weapon. Hercules strangled the beast with his strong hands, using no weapons, and from his skin he built himself a cape that made him invulnerable.

12 labors of Hercules on ancient coins

The second task was to destroy the Lernaean Hydra, a creature with nine heads that lives in the swamp. One of the hydra’s heads was immortal, while the others grew back after being cut off. Hercules went to fight the hydra with his friend Iolaus. Hercules cut off the heads one by one, and Iolaus, with the help of a torch, burned them with fire so that new ones would not grow. The last ninth head of the hydra remained alive, and Hercules had to bury it under a pile of stones.

The next task was to capture the Kerinean deer with golden horns, which the goddess Artemis considered sacred. She rushed through the fields, devastating them. Hercules hunted her for a whole year, finally wounded her and brought her to Tiryns. Artemis demanded that the sacred animal be returned to her. Hercules promised that the doe would remain alive.

The fourth feat of Hercules was to catch the Erymanthian boar, which terrified the lands around Mount Eriman. Pursuing the animal from its lair, Hercules drove it so that the strength of the beast ran out, the hero easily coped with it and brought the bound boar to Eurystheus.

The fifth feat of Hercules is known as cleaning the Augean stables in one day. The son of the sun god Helios, King Augeus had huge herds of cattle, the stables of which had not been cleaned for many years. Hercules offered to do this work in one day in exchange for a tenth of the herd. Avgiy agreed, realizing that no one could do such a thing in a day. Hercules filled up the riverbed, she turned her waters towards the stables, and in one day all the manure was washed away.

The sixth feat was the fight against Stymphalian birds, with iron claws, beaks and wings, which attacked people and terrorized the countryside. The goddess Athena helped Hercules to frighten away the birds, forcing them to fly out of their nests, and Hercules shot them with a bow.

The seventh task was to bring the Cretan bull alive to Tiryns. This bull was presented by the god Poseidon to the king of the island of Crete Minos. For the fact that Minos did not sacrifice this bull, but replaced it with another, Poseidon sent rabies on the bull, and it destroyed everything in its path. Hercules caught him and swam across the sea on him.

The eighth task Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the horses of Diomedes. The king of Thrace, Diomedes, had beautiful but wild horses, which he fed on human meat. Hercules led away herds of horses. Diomedes set off in pursuit of him, and Hercules was forced to kill him, and tamed his horses and brought him to Eurystheus.

The ninth test was to get the girdle of the Amazon queen Hippolyta. When the Amazons attacked Hercules, thinking he was going to kidnap their queen, Hercules was forced to kill them. Hippolyta, as a ransom for one of the Amazons taken prisoner by Hercules, gave him a belt.

The tenth task was to bring Geryon’s cows. Geryon was a monster with three bodies, three heads and three pairs of arms and legs. The journey to Gerion to the west was difficult, it was necessary to overcome the desert and the sea. The sun god Helios gave Hercules his boat, on which he got to Gerion, killed him and took away his cows.

Hercules defeats the Hydra

The eleventh task that Eurystheus gave to Hercules was to bring three fruits from the garden of Atlas, which held the sky. Atlas had a golden apple tree in the garden, from which three fruits had to be picked. Hercules ambushed the god Nereus to help him find his way to the Atlas. While Atlas went to his garden for apples, Hercules had to hold the sky instead. According to other sources, Hercules got the fruits by killing a dragon that stood guard over a tree with golden apples.

Dubbing actors
Rodion Prikhodko,
Yaroslav Ivanov,
Igor Balakirev
,
more
Composer
Alan Menken
Mounting
Tom Finan
,
Robert W. Headland
Dubbing director
Ludmila Demyanenko
Screenwriters
Ron Clements,
John Musker,
Don McEnery
,
more
Painters
Gerald Scarfe
,
Andy Gaskill
,
Keith Berg

Did you know that

• Ricky Martin voiced the adult Hercules in the Spanish-Mexican version.
• When Heracles enters Phil’s house, he hits Argo’s mast. According to the myths, Argo’s mast was the cause of Jason’s death.
• The Lernean Hydra is one of the monsters that Hercules fought. It was created using 3D graphics.
• When Hercules poses for a portrait, he is wearing a lion’s skin with a scar under his eye. This moment echoes the cartoon “The Lion King”. Lion Scar has the same mark under his eye.

More facts (+1)

Mistakes in the cartoon

• At the beginning of the film, Hermes brings flowers to Hera and says that Orpheus made the ikebana. But Orpheus is a contemporary of Hercules.
• Zeus was the father of Hercules, but Hera was not his mother. According to mythology, Hercules was born to an earthly woman from Zeus. For this, Hera disliked the illegitimate son and sent tests on him.
• Narcissus is a god in the cartoon. But it’s not. A narcissist is a mere mortal who loves to indulge in narcissism.

Plot

Warning, the text may contain spoilers!

Disney’s full-length beautiful fairy tale tells about the heroes sung in the legends and myths of Ancient Greece. Baby Hercules, having barely been born, has already become an enemy for the most evil god – the underground lord Hades, and his helpers, stupid Pain and Panik, are constantly chasing the child. They unsuccessfully attempt to poison the newborn Hercules and build barriers throughout the film.

The kid is raised by foster parents, but when he becomes an adult, they tell him the whole truth. The hero goes on an adventure. He is looking for his own father, who presents him with a gift – the winged horse Pegasus, and sends him to meet with the satyr Phil. Then the friends travel together, get into thousands of troubles, but come out of them with a victory. Hercules saves the beautiful Meg from the clutches of a centaur, defeats the Lernean Hydra, and kills the Cyclops. The young man will even have to get into the afterlife, risking his own life in order to save his beloved and put an end to his worst enemy Hades forever.

Hercules: The Animated Series
Hercules: The Animated Series
) is a 1998 animated series based on the Disney cartoon of the same name, which is a reworking of ancient Greek myths. The series tells about the adventures of a teenager Hercules, who trains in a special school to become a real hero. Among his friends are the enterprising Icarus, the soothsayer Cassandra, and his teacher Philoctetes, whom everyone simply calls Phil. Hercules confronts his treacherous uncle, god of the underworld, Hades. The series contradicts some of the events of the film and is not canon in its universe.

The series debuted on August 31, 1998, airing Monday through Friday during its first season. Broadcasting then moved to Saturdays, starting with the September 12 premiere of the second season, as part of the Disney’s One Saturday Morning broadcast block (along with Pepper Ann, Recess, and Disney’s Doug). The series became a hit comparable to the success of a full-length cartoon at the box office.

Unusually, the first broadcast of the second season ended on January 16, 1999 years old, two months before the finale of the first season (March 1), which was considered the finale of the entire show. A year later, the series began airing on Toon Disney, where episodes aired until 2008.

Disney XD aired the series in June 2001 with the founding of the channel in Canada.

Episodes

How to become a hero

4 episodes of the animated series were edited into a film called “How to become a hero” (eng. Zero To Hero
), which was released directly on DVD.

The central episode is the “Hercules & The Yearbook” series re-cut with parts of the following episodes:

• “Hercules & The First Day Of School”
• Hercules & The Grim Avenger
• “Hercules & The Visit From Zeus”

Part of the dialogue between Hercules and Meg has been changed. For example, the episode “Hercules and the Visit From Zeus” replaces the end scene of “Prometheus Academy”.

Differences from Greek mythology

• Each character in the series is represented by their Greek names, except for Hercules, Cupid and Bacchus – these names are from Roman mythology: Hercules, Eros and Dionysus, respectively.

• In the series, Hercules is the son of Zeus and Hera. In myths, his real mother is the mortal woman Alcmene. In the series, Alcmene and her husband, farmer Amphitrion, find baby Hercules when he is on Earth and decide to raise the boy as their son.

• In the series, Narcissus is a god from Olympus, although in myths he was an ordinary mortal.

• There are 9 muses in Greek mythology. Only 5 are shown in the series, the other 4 are not even mentioned.

• In the series, Pegasus is created by Zeus from the clouds as a pet of Hercules. In myths, Pegasus was a wild winged stallion created from the blood of Medusa. Pegasus was captured by another hero, Bellerophon, who appears in the episode “Hercules & The Pegasus Incident”. In actual myths, Hercules never encountered Pegasus.

• In the series, Homer appears as a reporter.

• In the myths, Icarus died when he flew close to the sun.

• In mythology, Cassandra received the gift of foresight from Apollo, and besides, no one believed her. In the series, friends constantly listen to the girl’s visions.

• Adonis was a god in mythology.

• In mythology, it was Hera who tried to defeat Hercules, not Hades.

• In mythology, Cupid is the son of Aphrodite and Ares. In the series, its origin is unclear.

• Pan is the satyr king in the series. However, in mythology, he is a god and the son of Hermes.

• Hercules opens the Greek Pantheon in Rome, although the city has not yet been founded, let alone become a metropolis.

• God Trivia does not exist in Greek mythology. Although it was the Latin name for the goddess of witchcraft and darkness, Hekate.

• The series witnesses the sinking of the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Although in fact, Atlantis sank long before the events of Hercules.

• Keto, Medusa, Minotaur, Harpies, Gerion, Argus, Cyclopes and the Erymanthian boar are the children of Echidna and Typhon in the series, which contradicts mythology.

• The Nemean lion was killed by Hercules. In the animated series, they become friends. Plus, the animal can talk.

• Pygmalion created Galatea, not Hercules.

• Hercules and Medusa become friends in the cartoon, although they never even met in mythology. Not to mention that Medusa is a negative character.

• Circe seduces men in the series, although in mythology she simply turned them into animals, specifically pigs.

• In the series, Hercules takes part in the Olympic Games, although this was not the case in mythology. In addition, due to the fact that the series is aimed at a children’s audience, all the participants wear clothes, although the athletes were naked during the games.

• The Spartan army used African elephants in battle. Whereas in the series, the episode “Hercules & The Secret Weapon” features an Indian elephant.

• In the series, Hades is the younger brother of Zeus. Although in mythology Hades is the eldest son, and Zeus is the youngest.

• In the series, Megara is an ordinary Greek woman, not a princess. In addition, she is clearly older than Hercules. Her father Creon, king of Thebes, never appears or is even mentioned in the cartoons.

• In the series, Hades is a classic negative character, although in myths he is a companion and friend of Zeus, who does not care much about Olympus. He likes to rule the Underworld.

• Hades was not going to free the Titans. In the myths, this did not happen, and they did not storm Mount Olympus. Although the children of Mother Earth tried to get to Olympus.

• Philoctetes appears in mythology as a friend of Hercules, but he was not a satyr and did not train the hero.

• In the series, Hercules was born the prince of the gods, since his parents – Zeus and Hera – are the rulers of Mount Olympus. In mythology, Hercules was not only a king among the gods, but also among people – he was of royal blood from Thebes.

• In the series, Hercules was born on Mount Olympus, and later came to Earth. But in myths, the hero was born on Earth.

• In the TV series, Paris and Helen are not lovers, although it was their romance that caused the Trojan War.

• In myths, Heroin is the great-grandson of Medusa. In the series, they are brother and sister, children of Echidna and Typhon.

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Tale The Twelve Labors of Hercules, myths of ancient Greece

…One day, the evil Hera sent a terrible disease to Hercules. The great hero lost his mind, madness took possession of him. In a fit of rage, Hercules killed all his children and the children of his brother Iphicles. When the attack passed, deep grief seized Hercules. Purified from the filth of the involuntary murder he had committed, Hercules left Thebes and went to the sacred Delphi to ask the god Apollo what to do. Apollo ordered Hercules to go to the homeland of his ancestors in Tiryns and serve Eurystheus for twelve years. Through the mouth of the Pythia, the son of Latona predicted to Hercules that he would receive immortality if he performed the twelve great labors at the command of Eurystheus. Hercules settled in Tiryns and became the servant of the weak, cowardly Eurystheus…

First feat: Nemean lion

Heracles did not have to wait long for the first order of King Eurystheus. He instructed Hercules to kill the Nemean lion. This lion, begotten by Typhon and Echidna, was of monstrous size. He lived near the city of Nemea and devastated all the surroundings. Hercules boldly set out on a dangerous feat. Arriving in Nemea, he immediately went to the mountains to find the lion’s lair. It was already noon when the hero reached the slopes of the mountains. There was not a single living soul to be seen anywhere: neither shepherds nor farmers. All living things fled from these places in fear of the terrible lion. Hercules searched for a long time on the wooded slopes of the mountains and in the gorges of the lion’s lair, finally, when the sun was already leaning towards the west, Hercules found the lair in the gloomy gorge; it was in a huge cave, which had two exits. Hercules blocked one of the exits with huge stones and began to wait for the lion, hiding behind the stones. Towards evening, when dusk was already approaching, a monstrous lion with a long shaggy mane appeared. Hercules pulled the string of his bow and shot three arrows at the lion one after another, but the arrows bounced off his skin – it was hard as steel. The lion roared menacingly, his growl rolled like thunder through the mountains. Looking around in all directions, the lion stood in the gorge and searched with eyes burning with rage for the one who dared to shoot arrows at him. But then he saw Hercules and rushed at the hero with a huge leap. Like lightning, the club of Hercules flashed and fell like a thunderbolt on the head of a lion. The lion fell to the ground, stunned by a terrible blow; Hercules rushed at the lion, grabbed him with his mighty arms and strangled him. Having shouldered a dead lion on his mighty shoulders, Hercules returned to Nemea, sacrificed to Zeus and established the Nemean games in memory of his first feat. When Hercules brought the lion he had killed to Mycenae, Eurystheus turned pale with fear, looking at the monstrous lion. King Mycenae realized what superhuman strength Hercules possesses. He forbade him even to approach the gates of Mycenae; when Hercules brought evidence of his exploits, Eurystheus looked at them with horror from the high Mycenaean walls.

Second Labor: Lernaean Hydra

After the first labor, Eurystheus sent Hercules to kill the Lernaean Hydra. It was a monster with the body of a snake and nine heads of a dragon. Like the Nemean lion, the hydra was spawned by Typhon and Echidna. The hydra lived in a swamp near the city of Lerna and, crawling out of its lair, destroyed entire herds and devastated all the surroundings. The fight against the nine-headed hydra was dangerous because one of its heads was immortal. Hercules set out on his journey to Lerna with Iphicles’ son Iolaus. Arriving at the swamp near the city of Lerna, Hercules left Iolaus with a chariot in a nearby grove, and he himself went to look for the hydra. He found her in a cave surrounded by a swamp. Having red-hot his arrows, Hercules began to let them go one by one into the hydra. The hydra was enraged by the arrows of Hercules. She crawled out, wriggling her body covered with shiny scales, from the darkness of the cave, rose menacingly on her huge tail and already wanted to rush at the hero, but the son of Zeus stepped on her body with his foot and crushed her to the ground. With its tail, the hydra wrapped itself around the legs of Hercules and tried to knock him down. Like an unshakable rock, the hero stood and, with a wave of a heavy club, knocked down the heads of the hydra one after another. Like a whirlwind, a club whistled through the air; the heads of the hydra flew off, but the hydra was still alive. Then Hercules noticed that in the hydra, two new ones grow in place of each knocked down head. The help of the hydra also appeared. A monstrous cancer crawled out of the swamp and dug its tongs into Hercules’ leg. Then the hero called his friend Iolaus for help. Iolaus killed the monstrous cancer, set fire to a part of the nearby grove and burned the necks of the hydra with burning tree trunks, from which Hercules knocked down their heads with his club. New heads have ceased to grow from the hydra. Weaker and weaker she resisted the son of Zeus. Finally, the immortal head flew off the hydra. The monstrous hydra was defeated and collapsed dead to the ground. The conqueror Hercules buried her immortal head deeply and piled a huge rock on it so that it could not come out into the light again. Then the great hero cut the body of the hydra and plunged his arrows into her poisonous bile. Since then, the wounds from the arrows of Hercules have become incurable. With great triumph Hercules returned to Tiryns. But there, a new assignment from Eurystheus awaited him.

Third feat: Stymphalian birds

Eurystheus ordered Hercules to kill the Stymphalian birds. Almost all the neighborhoods of the Arcadian city of Stimfal turned these birds 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 made of hard bronze, and the birds, having taken off, could drop them, like arrows, on the one who would take it into his head 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 tympanums, the god Hephaestus forged them, and ordered Hercules to stand on a high hill near the forest where the Stymphalian birds nested and strike the tympanums; when the birds take off – shoot them with a bow. So did Hercules. Climbing the hill, he struck the tympanum, and such a deafening sound arose that the birds flew over the forest in a huge flock and began to circle in horror over it. They rained down their feathers, sharp as arrows, on the ground, but the feathers did not fall into Hercules standing on the hill. The hero grabbed his bow and began to strike the birds with deadly arrows. In fear, the Stymphalian birds soared beyond the clouds and disappeared from the eyes of Hercules. The birds flew away 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 he immediately had to go on an even more difficult feat.

The fourth feat: the Kerinean deer

Eurystheus knew that a wonderful Kerinean deer lives in Arcadia, sent by the goddess Artemis to punish people. This deer devastated the fields. Eurystheus sent Hercules to catch her and ordered him to deliver the doe to Mycenae alive. This deer was extraordinarily beautiful, her horns were golden, and her legs were copper. Like the wind, she rushed through the mountains and valleys of Arcadia, never knowing fatigue. For a whole year, Hercules pursued the Kerinean doe. She rushed through the mountains, through the plains, jumped over the abyss, swam across the rivers. Farther and farther north ran the doe. The hero did not lag behind her, he pursued her, not losing sight of her. Finally, Hercules reached the extreme north in pursuit of the pad – the country of the Hyperboreans and the sources of Istra. Here the deer stopped. The hero wanted to grab her, but she slipped away and, like an arrow, rushed back to the south. The chase began again. Hercules managed only in Arcadia to overtake a doe. Even after such a long chase, she did not lose her strength. Desperate to catch a doe, Hercules resorted to his arrows that did not know a miss. He wounded the golden-horned doe with an arrow in the leg, and only then did he manage to catch it. Hercules shouldered a wonderful doe on his shoulders and was about to carry it to Mycenae, when an angry Artemis appeared before him and said: “Didn’t you know, Hercules, that this doe is mine? Why did you insult me ​​by hurting my beloved doe? Don’t you know that I do not forgive insults? Or do you think that you are more powerful than the Olympian gods? With reverence, Hercules bowed before the beautiful goddess and answered: – Oh, the great daughter of Latona, do not blame me! I have never offended the immortal gods living on the bright Olympus; I always honored the celestials with rich sacrifices and never considered myself equal to them, although I myself am the son of Zeus the Thunderer. I did not pursue your doe of my own free will, but at the command of Eurystheus. The gods themselves commanded me to serve him, and I dare not disobey Eurystheus! Artemis forgave Hercules for his guilt. The great son of the Thunderer Zeus brought the Kerinean fallow deer alive to Mycenae and gave it to Eurystheus.

The fifth feat: the Erymanthian boar and the battle with the centaurs

After hunting the copper-footed doe, which lasted a whole year, Hercules did not rest long. Eurystheus again gave him a commission: Hercules was supposed to kill the Erymanthian boar. This boar, possessing monstrous strength, lived on Mount Erimanthe and devastated the surroundings of the city of Psofis. He did not give mercy to people either and killed them with his huge fangs. Hercules went to Mount Erimanfu. On the way, he visited the wise centaur Fall. Phol accepted the great son of Zeus with honor and arranged a feast for him. During the feast, the centaur opened a large vessel of wine to treat the hero better. The fragrance of marvelous wine wafted far away. Heard this fragrance and other centaurs. They were terribly angry with Phol because he opened the vessel. Wine belonged not only to Foul, but was the property of all centaurs. The centaurs rushed to Fall’s dwelling and attacked him and Hercules by surprise, when the two of them were feasting merrily, decorating their heads with wreaths of ivy. Hercules was not afraid of the centaurs. He quickly jumped up from his bed and began to throw huge smoking brands at the attackers. The centaurs fled, and Hercules wounded them with his poisonous arrows. The hero pursued them all the way to Malea. There the centaurs took refuge with a friend of Hercules, Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs. Following them, Hercules burst into the cave. In anger, he pulled his bow, an arrow flashed in the air and pierced the knee of one of the centaurs. Hercules did not strike the enemy, but his friend Chiron. Great grief seized the hero when he saw whom he had wounded. Hercules hurries to wash and bandage his friend’s wound, but nothing can help. Hercules knew that the wound from the arrow, poisoned by the bile of the hydra, was incurable. Chiron also knew that he was in danger of a painful death. In order not to suffer from a wound, he subsequently voluntarily descended into the gloomy kingdom of Hades. In deep sadness, Hercules left Chiron and soon reached Mount Erimanth. There, in a dense forest, he found a formidable boar and drove him out of the thicket with a cry. Hercules pursued the boar for a long time, and finally drove him into deep snow on the top of the mountain. The boar got stuck in the snow, and Hercules, rushing at him, tied him up and carried him alive to Mycenae. When Eurystheus saw the monstrous boar, he hid in a large bronze vessel out of fear.

The sixth feat: Animal farm of king Avgiy

Soon Eurystheus gave a new assignment to Hercules. He had to clear the entire barnyard of Avgius, the king of Elis, the son of the radiant Helios, from manure. The sun god gave his son innumerable riches. The flocks of Avgeas were especially numerous. Among his herds there were three hundred bulls with snow-white legs, two hundred bulls were red like Sidon purple, twelve bulls dedicated to the god Helios were white like swans, and one bull, distinguished by its extraordinary beauty, shone like a star. Heracles suggested that Avgius clean up his entire vast barnyard in one day, if he agrees to give him a tenth of his herds. Augius agreed. It seemed impossible for him to do such a job in one day. Hercules, on the other hand, broke the wall that surrounded the barnyard from two opposite sides, and diverted the water of two rivers, Alpheus and Peneus, into it. The water of these rivers in one day carried away all the manure from the barnyard, and Hercules again laid down the walls. When the hero came to Avgiy to demand a reward, the proud king did not give him the promised tenth of the herds, and Hercules had to return to Tiryns with nothing. The great hero took terrible revenge on the king of Elis. A few years later, already freed from the service of Eurystheus, Hercules invaded Elis with a large army, defeated Avgius in a bloody battle and killed him with his deadly arrow. After the victory, Hercules gathered an army and all the rich booty near the city of Pisa, made sacrifices to the Olympic gods and established the Olympic Games, which since then have been celebrated by all Greeks every four years on the sacred plain, planted by Hercules himself dedicated to the goddess Pallas Athena. The Olympic Games are the most important of all Greek festivities, during which universal peace was declared throughout Greece. A few months before the games, ambassadors were sent out all over Greece and the Greek colonies, inviting them to the games at Olympia. Games were held every four years. There were competitions in running, wrestling, fisticuffs, discus and spear throwing, as well as chariot races. The winners of the games received an olive wreath as a reward and enjoyed great honor. The Greeks kept track of the Olympic Games, considering the first to take place in 776 BC. e. There were olympic games until 393 A.D. e., when they were banned by the emperor Theodosius as incompatible with Christianity. After 30 years, Emperor Theodosius II burned the temple of Zeus at Olympia and all the luxurious buildings that adorned the place where the Olympic Games took place. They turned into ruins and were gradually covered by the sand of the Alfea River. Only excavations carried out at the site of Olympia in the 19th century. n. e., mainly from 1875 to 1881, gave us the opportunity to get an accurate idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe former Olympia and the Olympic Games. Hercules took revenge on all the allies of Avgii. The king of Pylos, Neleus, paid especially. Hercules, having come with an army to Pylos, took the city and killed Neleus and his eleven sons. The son of Neleus, Periklimen, was not saved either, to whom Poseidon, the ruler of the sea, gave the gift of turning into a lion, a snake and a bee. Hercules killed him when, turning into a bee, Periclymenes mounted one of the horses harnessed to Hercules’ chariot. Only Neleus’ son Nestor survived. Subsequently, Nestor became famous among the Greeks for his exploits and great wisdom.

Seventh feat: Cretan bull

To fulfill the seventh order of Eurystheus, Hercules had to leave Greece and go to the island of Crete. Eurystheus instructed him to bring a Cretan bull to Mycenae. This bull was sent to the king of Crete by Minos, the son of Europe, Poseidon, the shaker of the earth; Minos was supposed to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon. But Minos is sorry to sacrifice such a beautiful bull – he left him in his herd, and sacrificed one of his bulls to Poseidon. Poseidon was angry with Minos and sent rabies on the bull that came out of the sea. A bull rushed all over the island and destroyed everything in its path. The great hero Hercules caught the bull and tamed it. He sat on the broad back of a bull and swam on it across the sea from Crete to the Peloponnese. Hercules brought the bull to Mycenae, but Eurystheus was afraid to leave the bull of Poseidon in his herd and set him free. Sensing freedom again, a mad bull rushed through the entire Peloponnese to the north and finally ran to Attica on the Marathon field. There he was killed by the great Athenian hero Theseus.

Eighth feat: Horses of Diomedes

After taming the Cretan bull, Hercules, on behalf of Eurystheus, had to go to Thrace to the king of Biston Diomedes. This king had marvelous beauty and strength of horses. They were chained with iron chains in their stalls, since no fetters could hold them. King Diomedes fed these horses with human meat. He threw them to be eaten by all the foreigners who, driven by the storm, stuck to his city. It was to this Thracian king that Hercules appeared with his companions. He took possession of the horses of Diomedes and took them to his ship. Diomedes himself overtook Hercules on the shore with his warlike bistones. Entrusting the protection of the horses to his beloved Abder, the son of Hermes, Hercules entered into battle with Diomedes. Hercules had few companions, but Diomedes was still defeated and fell in battle. Hercules returned to the ship. How great was his despair when he saw that the wild horses had torn to pieces his beloved Abder. Hercules arranged a magnificent funeral for his favorite, poured a high hill on his grave, and next to the grave he founded a city and named it Abdera in honor of his favorite. Hercules brought the horses of Diomedes to Eurystheus, and he ordered them to be released into the wild. The wild horses fled to the mountains of Lycaion, covered with dense forest, and were there torn to pieces by wild beasts.

The ninth feat: The belt of Hippolyta

The ninth feat of Hercules was his campaign in the country of the Amazons for the belt of Queen Hippolyta. This belt was given to Hippolyta by the god of war Ares, and she wore it as a sign of her power over all the Amazons. The daughter of Eurystheus Admet, the priestess of the goddess Hera, wanted to have this belt without fail. To fulfill her desire, Eurystheus sent Hercules for the belt. Having gathered a small detachment of heroes, the great son of Zeus set off on a long journey on a ship alone. Although the detachment of Hercules was small, there were many glorious heroes in this detachment, I was in it the great hero of Attica Theseus.
The heroes had a long way to go. They had to reach the farthest shores of the Euxine Pontus, since there was a country of the Amazons with the capital Themyscira. On the way, Hercules landed with his companions on the island of Paros, where the sons of Minos ruled. On this island, the sons of Minos killed two companions of Hercules. Hercules, angry at this, immediately began a war with the sons of Minos. He killed many of the inhabitants of Paros, while others, having driven into the city, kept under siege until the besieged ambassadors were sent to Heracles and began to ask him to take two of them instead of the dead companions. Then Hercules lifted the siege and instead of the dead he took the grandsons of Minos, Alcaeus and Sthenelus.
From Paros, Hercules arrived in Mysia to King Lycus, who received him with great hospitality. The king of the Bebriks unexpectedly attacked Lik. Hercules defeated the king of the Bebriks with his detachment and destroyed his capital, and gave all the land of the Bebriks to Lik. King Lik named this country in honor of Heracles Heraclea. After this feat, Hercules went on, and finally arrived at the city of the Amazons, Themyscira.
The fame of the exploits of the son of Zeus has long reached the country of the Amazons. Therefore, when the ship of Hercules landed at Themyscira, the Amazons came out with the queen to meet the hero. They looked with surprise at the great son of Zeus, who stood out, like an immortal god, among his fellow heroes. Queen Hippolyta asked the great hero Hercules:
– Glorious son of Zeus, tell me what brought you to our city? Do you bring us peace or war?
This is how Hercules answered the queen:
– Queen, I did not come here with my own will, having made a long journey on a stormy sea; I was sent by the ruler of Mycenae, Eurystheus. His daughter Admet wants to have your belt, a gift from the god Ares. Eurystheus instructed me to get your belt.
Hippolyta was unable to refuse anything to Hercules. She was already ready to voluntarily give him the belt, but the great Hera, wanting to destroy the hated Hercules, took the form of an Amazon, intervened in the crowd and began to convince the warriors to attack the army of Hercules.
– Hercules tells lies, – Hera told the Amazons, – he came to you with insidious intent: the hero wants to kidnap your queen Hippolyta and take her as a slave to his house.
The Amazons believed Hera. They grabbed their weapons and attacked the army of Hercules. Ahead of the Amazon army rushed Aella, fast as the wind. She attacked Hercules first, like a stormy whirlwind. The great hero repulsed her onslaught and put her to flight, Aella thought to escape from the hero with a quick flight. All her speed did not help her, Hercules overtook her and struck her with his sparkling sword. Fell in battle and Protoya. She slew seven heroes from among the companions of Hercules with her own hand, but she did not escape the arrow of the great son of Zeus. Then seven Amazons attacked Hercules at once; they were companions of Artemis herself: no one was equal to them in the art of wielding a spear. Covering themselves with shields, they launched their spears at Hercules. but the spears flew past this time. All of them were slain by the hero with his club; one after another they burst to the ground, flashing their weapons. The Amazonian Melanippe, who led the army into battle, was captured by Hercules, and together with her captured Antiope. The formidable warriors were defeated, their army fled, many of them fell at the hands of the heroes pursuing them. The Amazons made peace with Hercules. Hippolyta bought the freedom of the mighty Melanippe with the price of her belt. The heroes took Antiope with them. Hercules gave it as a reward to Theseus for his great courage.
So Hercules got Hippolyta’s belt.

The tenth feat: Gerion’s cows

Shortly after returning from a campaign in the country of the Amazons, Hercules set out on a new feat. Eurystheus instructed him to drive to Mycenae the cows of the great Geryon, the son of Chrysaor and the Oceanid Kalliroi. Far was the way to Gerion. Hercules had to reach the westernmost edge of the earth, those places where the radiant sun god Helios descends from the sky at sunset. Hercules went on a long journey alone. He passed through Africa, through the barren deserts of Libya, through the countries of wild barbarians, and finally reached the ends of the earth. Here he erected two giant stone pillars on both sides of the narrow sea strait as an eternal monument to his feat.
After that, Hercules had to wander a lot more, until he reached the shores of the gray Ocean. In thought, the hero sat on the shore near the ever-noisy waters of the Ocean. How was it possible for him to reach the island of Eritheia, where Geryon pastured his herds? The day was already drawing to a close. Here appeared the chariot of Helios, descending to the waters of the Ocean. The bright rays of Helios blinded Hercules, and an unbearable, scorching heat enveloped him. Hercules jumped up in anger and grabbed his formidable bow, but bright Helios did not get angry, he smiled affably at the hero, he liked the extraordinary courage of the great son of Zeus. Helios himself invited Hercules to cross to Eritheia in a golden boat, in which the sun god sailed every evening with his horses and chariot from the western to the eastern edge of the earth to his golden palace. The delighted hero boldly jumped into the golden boat and quickly reached the shores of Eritheia.
As soon as he landed on the island, the formidable two-headed dog Orfo sensed him and rushed at the hero barking. Hercules killed him with one blow of his heavy club. Not only Orfo guarded the herds of Gerion. Hercules also had to fight with the shepherd of Gerion, the giant Eurytion. The son of Zeus quickly coped with the giant and drove the cows of Gerion to the seashore, where the golden boat of Helios stood. Gerion heard the lowing of his cows and went to the herd. Seeing that his dog Orfo and the giant Eurytion were killed, he chased after the stealer of the herd and overtook him on the seashore. Gerion was a monstrous giant: he had three bodies, three heads, six arms and six legs. He covered himself with three shields during the battle, he immediately threw three huge spears at the enemy. Hercules had to fight with such a giant, but the great warrior Pallas Athena helped him. As soon as Hercules saw him, he immediately shot his deadly arrow at the giant. An arrow pierced the eye of one of Gerion’s heads. The first arrow was followed by the second, followed by the third. Hercules waved menacingly with his all-destroying club, like lightning, the hero Geryon struck it, and the three-bodied giant fell to the ground like a lifeless corpse. Hercules transported the cows of Geryon from Eritheia in the golden boat of Helios across the stormy Ocean and returned the boat to Helios. Half of the feat was over.
Much work still lay ahead. It was necessary to drive the bulls to Mycenae. Through all of Spain, through the Pyrenees, through Gaul and the Alps, through Italy, Hercules drove the cows. In southern Italy, near the city of Rhegium, one of the cows escaped from the herd and swam across the strait to Sicily. There, King Eriks, the son of Poseidon, saw her, and took the cow into his herd. Hercules searched for a cow for a long time. Finally, he asked the god Hephaestus to guard the herd, and he crossed over to Sicily and there he found his cow in the herd of King Eriks. The king did not want to return her to Hercules; hoping for his strength, he challenged Hercules to single combat. The winner was to be rewarded with a cow. Eriks could not afford such an opponent as Hercules. The son of Zeus squeezed the king in his mighty arms and strangled him. Hercules returned with a cow to his herd and drove him further. On the shores of the Ionian Sea, the goddess Hera sent rabies to the whole herd. The mad cows ran in all directions. Only with great difficulty Hercules caught most of the cows already in Thrace and finally drove them to Eurystheus in Mycenae. Eurystheus sacrificed them to the great goddess Hera.
Pillars of Hercules, or Pillars of Hercules. The Greeks believed that the rocks along the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar were placed by Hercules.

Eleventh feat. Cerberus kidnapping.

There were no more monsters left on the earth. Heracles destroyed them all. But underground, guarding the possessions of Hades, lived the monstrous three-headed dog Cerberus. Eurystheus ordered him to be delivered to the walls of Mycenae.

Hercules had to descend into the kingdom of no return. Everything about him was terrifying. Cerberus himself was so powerful and terrible that the very sight of him chilled the blood in his veins. In addition to three disgusting heads, the dog had a tail in the form of a huge snake with an open mouth. The snakes also writhed around his neck. And such a dog had to be not only defeated, but also brought alive from the underworld. Only the lords of the kingdom of the dead, Hades and Persephone, could give their consent to this.

Hercules had to appear before their eyes. At Hades, they were black, like coal, formed at the site of the burning of the remains of the dead, at Persephone they were light blue, like cornflowers on arable land. But one could read genuine surprise in both of them: what does this impudent man need here, who violated the laws of nature and descended alive into their gloomy world?

Bowing respectfully, Hercules said:

– Do not be angry, mighty lords, if my request seems bold to you! The will of Eurystheus, hostile to my desire, dominates me. It was he who instructed me to deliver to him your faithful and valiant Cerberus guardian.

Hades’ face stretched out in displeasure.

– Not only did you yourself come here alive, you set out to show the living someone whom only the dead can see.

– Forgive my curiosity, – Persephone interrupted. – But I would like to know how you think about your feat. After all, Cerberus has not yet been given into the hands of anyone.

– I don’t know, – Hercules admitted honestly. – But let me fight him.

– Ha! Ha! – Hades laughed so loudly that the vaults of the underworld shook. – Try it! But just fight on equal terms, not using weapons.

On the way to the gates of Hades, one of the shadows approached Hercules and made a request.

– Great hero, – said the shadow, – you are destined to see the sun. Will you agree to do my duty? I have left my sister Dejanira, whom I did not have time to marry.

“Tell me your name and where you come from,” said Hercules.

– I am from Calydon, – answered the shadow. – There I was called Meleager. Hercules, bowing low to the shadow, said:

– I heard about you as a boy and always regretted that I could not meet you. Stay calm. I myself will take your sister as a wife.

Cerberus, as befits a dog, was in his place at the gates of Hades, barking at the souls that tried to approach the Styx in order to get out into the world. If earlier, when Hercules entered the gate, the dog did not pay attention to the hero, now he attacked him with an evil growl, trying to gnaw through the hero’s throat. Hercules grabbed two necks of Cerberus with both hands, and struck a powerful blow on the third head with his forehead. Cerberus wrapped his tail around the legs and torso of the hero, tearing the body with his teeth. But Hercules’ fingers continued to tighten, and soon the half-strangled dog went limp and wheezed.

Without letting Cerberus recover, Hercules dragged him to the exit. When it began to get light, the dog came to life and, throwing up his head, howled terribly at the unfamiliar sun. Never before has the earth heard such heartbreaking sounds. Poisonous foam fell from the gaping mouths. Wherever even one drop of it fell, poisonous plants grew.

Here are the walls of Mycenae. The city seemed deserted, dead, since already from a distance everyone heard that Hercules was returning with a victory. Eurystheus, looking at Cerberus through the crack of the gate, yelled:

– Let him go! Let go!

Hercules did not hesitate. He released the chain on which he was leading Cerberus, and the faithful dog Hades rushed to his master with huge leaps…

The twelfth feat. Golden apples of the Hesperides.

At the western end of the earth, near the Ocean, where day and night converged, lived the beautiful-voiced Hesperid nymphs. Their divine singing was heard only by Atlas, holding on his shoulders the vault of heaven and the souls of the dead, sadly descending into the underworld. Nymphs walked in a wonderful garden, where a tree grew, bending heavy branches to the ground. Golden fruits sparkled and hid in their greenery. They gave everyone who touches them immortality and eternal youth.

These are the fruits that Eurystheus ordered to bring, and not in order to be equal to the gods. He hoped that Hercules would not fulfill this assignment.

Throwing a lion’s skin over his back, throwing a bow over his shoulder, taking a club, the hero walked briskly towards the garden of the Hesperides. He’s used to getting the impossible done.

Hercules walked for a long time until he reached the place where heaven and earth converged on Atlanta, as on a giant support. With horror, he looked at the titan holding an incredible weight.

– Who are you? the titan asked in a hushed voice.

– I am Hercules, – the hero answered. – I was ordered to bring three golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. I heard that you alone can pick these apples.

Joy flashed in Atlanta’s eyes. He was up to something bad.

– I can’t reach the tree, – Atlas said. – Yes, and my hands, as you can see, are busy. Now, if you hold my burden, I will gladly fulfill your request.

– I agree, – Hercules answered and stood next to the titan, who was many heads taller than him.

Atlas descended, and a monstrous weight fell on the shoulders of Hercules. Sweat covered his forehead and all over his body. Legs went ankle-deep into the ground trampled down by Atlanta. The time it took the giant to get the apples seemed like an eternity to the hero. But Atlant was in no hurry to take back his burden.

– If you want, I myself will take the precious apples to Mycenae, – he suggested to Hercules.

The simple-hearted hero almost agreed, fearing to offend the titan who had rendered him a service, but Athena intervened in time – it was she who taught him to answer cunning with cunning. Pretending to be pleased with Atlas’s offer, Hercules immediately agreed, but asked the titan to hold the vault while he made a lining under his shoulders.

As soon as Atlas, deceived by the feigned joy of Hercules, put the usual burden on his overworked shoulders, the hero immediately raised his club and bow and, ignoring the indignant cries of Atlas, set off on his way back.

Eurystheus did not take the apples of the Hesperides, obtained by Hercules with such labor. After all, he needed not apples, but the death of a hero. Hercules gave the apples to Athena, who returned them to the Hesperides.

This ended the service of Hercules to Eurystheus, and he was able to return to Thebes, where new exploits and new troubles awaited him.

Consultation “a cautionary tale about oatmeal porridge” | Consultation:

“AN INSTRUCTIONAL STORY ABOUT THE VALUE OF HERCULES PORRIDGE”

Teacher of the highest category Tumasheva M.P. MBDOU kindergarten №77

Once upon a time there was a boy who did not like oatmeal porridge. He was persuaded to eat a spoon for mom, dad, grandma. Even a spoon for Aunt Nadia. But all the relatives were only enough for half a plate of porridge, and not a spoon more.

Then one day the boy’s father said:

-Do you know why this porridge is called “oatmeal”? You do not know. So I’ll tell you now. Listen.

This happened many years ago in the country of Greece. Of course, people later came up with something in this story, but I think there is truth in it too.

So, it means that two boys were born in Greece. One was named Eurystheus, the other Hercules. Eurystheus was born a king, and Hercules was just a boy.

God Zeus decided this: let Hercules grow up to be a hero and serve under Eurystheus until he completes ten great feats. And if he does, he will become a free man and be able to leave the king. So decided Zeus. It remained only for Hercules to grow up as a hero. And for this, the mother of Hercules knew one fan method. She began to feed Hercules with oatmeal, which at first he also did not really like. But he grew by leaps and bounds, and when he grew up, he became famous for his strength and exploits throughout Greece, even the whole world. And porridge also became famous. Only in other countries did people call Hercules Hercules, which is why the porridge was called Hercules.

Eurystheus hated this mess most of all. It was because of her that Hercules became so strong. Eurystheus was afraid of Hercules. And he sent him to certain death: to defeat the Nemean lion.

In the morning, Eurystheus called Hercules to him and said:

-Get ready, Hercules, to hunt. We must defeat the Nemean Lion. And so he says it, as if he is giving the most trifling task. But the fact is that the Nemean lion was not a simple lion, but a magical one. Monster. Nobody could defeat him. He lived in the mountains, not far from the city of Nemea, and devoured everything that he met on his way. That’s who Hercules had to defeat!

But Heracles says to Eurystheus:

-It must be so. In thirty days I will bring you all that is left of the Nemean Lion. And King Eurystheus thinks to himself: “How! In thirty days, there will be nothing left of you.”

Meanwhile, Hercules got ready and went to perform his first feat. He took with him a bow and arrows, a sword and a shield. But on the way, he learned that the skin of a lion is like a stone, you can’t pierce it with an arrow or a sword. Then he plucked a hundred-year-old oak out of the ground, made a club out of it, and went to the mountains to look for the Nemean lion.

Hercules could not find him for many days. Finally saw the footprints. At first he didn’t even realize they were footprints, because each footprint was the size of a large basin. And when he finally understood, he followed them and a week later came to a cave, from where such a roar was heard that stones fell from the mountains.

Hercules stopped to gather his strength before the fight. And suddenly he hears – the roar began to subside, and then completely stopped. What? Maybe the lion hid and decided to attack Hercules first? Well, I do not! And Hercules boldly entered the dark cave. And when his eyes got used to the darkness, he could not believe his eyes. Because there was no lion in the cave!

“Where could he have gone?” – thought Hercules and began to examine the cave. And at the very far end he found a second exit, through which the lion left.

This is where the stones that fell from the mountains came in handy. Hercules filled up the second exit with them, and he hid at the entrance to the cave and began to wait for the lion.

Leo returned in the evening. It was a lion the size of an elephant. He entered the cave, and Hercules entered after him. He entered and blocked the entrance. The Nemean lion, of course, did not like this. He growled and jumped, but suddenly he received such a blow to the forehead with a club that the stone forehead could not stand it and cracked. And the lion himself fell unconscious to the floor. Then Hercules grabbed his hefty neck with his hands and pressed until the lion suffocated.

This is how Hercules defeated the Nemean Lion. He made a cloak out of a lion’s skin, and a helmet out of a lion’s head, and now not a single arrow, not a single spear was afraid of Hercules.

Exactly thirty days later, in a cloak and helmet, Hercules returned to Eurystheus. Eurystheus was so frightened when he saw Hercules that he forbade him even to approach the palace. But he still ordered himself to dig a special cellar, where he hid as soon as he found out about the approach of Hercules. And he transmitted his orders from the cellar through the herald Kopreya. What to do, after all, Eurystheus was a cowardly king.

So, dear children, eat oatmeal porridge and gain strength like Hercules. Be healthy!

THE TALE ABOUT porridge.

We will tell you about porridge –

Both about yours and about ours,

Many different porridges are cooked –

And this is our story.

Our porridge is good

For any baby,

With butter, ruddy

Our semolina porridge.

This porridge is just a miracle!

Where did the cereal come from?

It is extracted from wheat grain.

This is rice porridge, try it, little Masha.

Masha has a question: “Did this rice grow in the south?”

Rice grows in the hot south, does not grow in our district.

Natasha and I can only be pleased with millet porridge.

How delicious it is, this millet porridge.

What did it come from – yellowish millet?

There is no simpler question for us, you know: millet is millet groats.

This is buckwheat porridge. Sasha loves this porridge.

He is not sad over porridge: Sasha has an appetite.

It is never quiet in the field if buckwheat grows there:

Bees fly to flowers, they want to take nectar.

Meet the new porridge: everyone calls it pearl barley.

Little Andrey ate porridge and immediately became more cheerful.

If they ask me: “Is there porridge made from barley?”

I have a ready answer: “Yes, her name is pearl barley.”

In the morning Katya is fed delicious warm corn porridge.

Our Katya is cheerful: the porridge was sweet.

Corn cobs grew in the field – not in the garden.

Corn always grows taller than us.

Kasha wasn’t alone, you guessed it? – oatmeal!

Mom pleases Tatyanka: mom cooks oatmeal for her.