Heracles' labors
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Heracles's grievous toils · countless toils · deeds of violence · fetching the girdle · many deeds · my restless toil · of all the toils I then endured · rescuing Theseus from Hades · sacking Sparta · wander over unmeasured tracts of land and sea
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Labors of Heracles2 mentions
Heracles (Greek) · Theogony (Greek)
or how when I had killed the hydra, that monster with a ring of heads with power to grow again, I passed through a herd of countless other toils besides and came to the dead to fetch to the light at the bidding of Eurystheus the three-headed hound, hell’s porter.
in the texts
Heracleidae
The heroic deeds Heracles performed during his life, including his labors, the rescue of Theseus from the underworld, and the sack of Sparta, repeatedly invoked as grounds for the debts owed to his family.
yea, and from Hades’ murky dungeons did Heracles bring thy father up;
would to Heaven that thou, mine arm, e’en as I remember thee in thy lusty youth, when with Heracles thou didst sack Sparta, couldst so champion me to-day!
I, for instance, from pure regard and reverence for my kith and kin, though I might have lived at peace in Argos, alone of all my race shared with Heracles his labours, while he was yet with us, and now that he dwells in heaven,
Heracles
The famous series of labors performed by Heracles at Eurystheus's command, recounted by Heracles himself as the foundation of his heroic reputation now destroyed.
or how when I had killed the hydra, that monster with a ring of heads with power to grow again, I passed through a herd of countless other toils besides and came to the dead to fetch to the light at the bidding of Eurystheus the three-headed hound, hell’s porter.
Theogony
The great labors performed by Heracles, referenced as the cause of his apotheosis and exemplified by his slaying of Geryones.
And mighty Heracles, the valiant son of neat-ankled Alcmena, when he had finished his grievous toils, made Hebe the child of great Zeus and goldshod Hera his shy wife in snowy Olympus.
And the daughter of Ocean, Callirrhoe was joined in the love of rich Aphrodite with stout-hearted Chrysaor and bore a son who was the strongest of all men, Geryones, whom mighty Heracles killed in sea-girt Erythea for the sake of his shambling oxen.
Hymn 15 To Heracles
The series of commanded wanderings, violent deeds, and sufferings associated with Heracles under Eurystheus.
Once he used to wander over unmeasured tracts of land and sea at the bidding of King Eurystheus, and himself did many deeds of violence and endured many;