Why Myths Still Matter: Hercules And His Twelve Healing Labors
Heracles would then take on a concubine by the name of Iole. Further drama ensued when Deianira feared that her husband was increasing fonder of Iole. Heracles married once again, to Deianira, and each moved to Calydon till his madness took hold once more and he killed his father in law’s cupbearer. This act was forgiven by the king for he saw it as an accident. The eleventh labour was to bring back the golden apples of the Hesperides. According to one version he killed the dragon that guarded the apples and took them. According to yet another he went...