Unit 07 Greek Heroes专用课件.ppt

Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 2: to slay the nine-headed snake, Lernaean Hydra. One of the snaky heads was immortal. The snake can grow two or three more heads for each one it lost. His nephew Iolaus helped him. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles He chased it for one full year. He captured it without drawing one drop of blood. Labor 3: to find the brazen-footed, golden-horned stag / hind. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 4: to capture a wild boar that terrorized people around Mount Erymanthus. He wounded Chiron, King of the Centaur with one of his poisoned arrows, and the Centaur was made the star Centaur after agreeing to replace Prometheus. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 5: to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Heracles diverted two rivers nearby so that they flew into the Augean stable, swept then clean, and went on to cleanse the valley pastures. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 6: to destroy the countless brazen-beaked, brazen-clawed, brazen-winged, man-eating birds in the Stymphalian Marsh. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 7: to capture a Cretean savage bull. Heracles wrestled it to the ground. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 8: to capture the four man-eating mares of Diomedes, King of Thrace. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 9: to obtain the girdle of the fierce Amazonian warrior queen, Hippolyta. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 10: to fetch the famous cattle of the Geryon who was three-headed, six-handed, and three-bodied. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 11: to get the fruit from the golden-apple tree, Mother Earth’s wedding gift to Hera, from the garden of Hesperides on Mount Atlas. Heracles Passage 2: Twelve Labors of Heracles Labor 12: to bring the three-headed watchdog of the Underworld, Cerberus, to the sur