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The lion of Nemea is a monster and the first of Hercules' labours was to kill it to skin it. The lion apart from looking like a supernatural creature and having devoured men and herds, lived in a cave which had two exits. Therefore he was invulnerable.
He caught it, held it tightly and with his superhuman strength suffocated it. Hercules stripped the lion, took off its skin and put it on him. The head of the beast became a kind of helmet. Hercules brought the lion back to Mycenae, and Eurystaeus was so appalled by the hero's valour in killing such a monster that he forbade him to enter the city. He ordered him to lay his booty before the gates.
The second job of Hercules was to kill the Hydra of Lerna, a monster, son of Echidna, but its father was Typhon. It was raised by Hera as a test for Hercules. It is represented as a serpent with many heads. The monster of Lerna caused a series of ravages on the crops and among the herds of the country.
Hercules succeeded in driving it out of its nest by shooting flaming arrows at it. When the monstrous snake appeared, the hero began to chop off the heads with an axe. Just as he was fighting, a huge crab, defender of the place, sent by Hera, bit his foot.
Hercules managed to kill it and then immediately asked for help from his nephew, who set fire to the nearby forest, while Hercules cut off the heads of the Lerna Hydra. He himself burned the severed flesh with flaming torches to prevent new heads from growing. The central head of the monster was supposed to be immortal. Once cut off, it was buried and petrified with a gigantic rock.
The next work was the Erymanthem Boar. It was a wild beast of gigantic proportions that lived on the slopes of Mount Erymanthe or in the thickets of Mount Lameia in Arcadia. Capturing such a wild beast alive was a task of uncommon difficulty. He tied it up with chains and carried it alive on his back to Mycenae.
When he learned that the Argonauts were gathering to leave for Colchis, he put the boar down. He left it outside the main market place and, instead of waiting for further orders from Eurystheus, who was terrified by this new exploit, hid it in his bronze jar. He left with Hylas to join the expedition.
The hind of Cerynia was one of the five that Artemis the goddess of the hunt had once found grazing on Mount Lyceum. All had golden antlers and were bigger than bulls. The goddess took four of them for her carriage. The fifth, at the behest of Hera, found refuge on Mount Cerynia, to provide later one of the trials of Hercules.
She lived in the woods of Oeneia, in Argolid. The city of Cerynia, in Achaia, had attributed her to itself, it is not clear why, and, moreover, she was elusive. So Hercules' fourth test was to catch it, and to catch it alive. This doe was very fast and Hercules had to chase it for a year, to the country of the Hyperboreans, a fabulous land, and it was finally in Arcadia, on the banks of the river Ladon that he caught it in its sleep.
He wounded her lightly with an arrow and had no trouble taking her. But while he was taking it back to his master Eurystheus, Hercules was attacked by Artemis and his brother Apollo, who wanted to take back the animal, which belonged to them. They also accused him of having wanted to kill it, which was a sacrilege. Hercules blamed Eurystheus, so that they finally gave her back to him.
The birds of Lake Stymphalus are eagles that lived in a thick forest on the shores of Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia and had once fled from an invasion of wolves. They had multiplied extraordinarily, to the point of being a nuisance to the surrounding country. They devoured all the fruit in the fields and attacked all the crops.
Eurytheus ordered Hercules to destroy them. The difficulty was to get them out of their forest. To do this, the hero used bronze castanets, which he made himself (or which Athena gave him, which were the work of Hephaestus). The noise of this instrument frightened them and they left the dense forest. Hercules had no trouble killing them with his arrows.
