Labours of Hercules
label: La dek du laboroj de Heraklo @eo
label: 헤라클레스의 12과업 @ko
label: Doze trabalhos de Hércules @pt
label: Tugas-tugas Herakles @in
label: Travaux d'Héraclès @fr
label: Els dotze treballs d'Hèracles @ca
label: Los doce trabajos de Heracles @es
label: Dodici fatiche di Eracle @it
label: Heraklesen hamabi lanak @eu
label: Άθλοι του Ηρακλή @el
label: أعمال هرقل @ar
label: Dwanaście prac Heraklesa @pl
description: joukko muinaisia tapahtumia, jotka kuvaavat Herakleen, muinaisen Kreikan tarusankareista suurimman, katumusharjoitusta @fi
description: ヘラクレスによって行われた一連の偉業 @ja
description: Herkules által végrehajtott hőstettek sorozata @hu
description: exploits exécutés par Héraclès (Hercule) sur l'ordre d'Eurysthée @fr
description: Herakles tarafından yerine getirilen kefaretle ilgili bir dizi olaydır @tr
description: serie di imprese compiute da Ercole @it
description: Dwanaście prac Herkulesa @pl
description: ciclo de la mitología griega @es
description: series of feats carried out by Heracles
description: 赫拉克勒斯的一系列壮举 @zh
description: tugas yang dilakukan herakles karena kematian keluarganya yang ia buat @in
description: Reihe von Aufgaben, die von Herakles bewältigt wurden @de
subject: Category:12 (number)
subject: Category:Hercules
subject: Category:Labours of Hercules
subject: Category:Folklore featuring impossible tasks
author: Donald Andrew Russell, David Konstan
source: Heraclitus: Homeric Problems 33
text: I turn to Heracles. We must not suppose he attained such power in those days as a result of his physical strength. Rather, he was a man of intellect, an initiate in heavenly wisdom, who, as it were, shed light on philosophy, which had been hidden in deep darkness. The most authoritative of the Stoics agree with this account.... The boar which he overcame is the common incontinence of men; the lion is the indiscriminate rush towards improper goals; in the same way, by fettering irrational passions he gave rise to the belief that he had fettered the violent bull. He banished cowardice also from the world, in the shape of the hind of Ceryneia. There was another "labor" too, not properly so called, in which he cleared out the mass of dung — in other words, the foulness that disfigures humanity. The birds he scattered are the windy hopes that feed our lives; the many-headed hydra that he burned, as it were, with the fires of exhortation, is pleasure, which begins to grow again as soon as it is cut out.
hypernym: Series