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Heracles, also known as Hercules, was the exceptionally strong son of Zeus and Alcmena. As an infant, he strangled two snakes sent by Hera to kill him. Later in life, he offered to serve King Eurystheus for 12 years to allow his stepfather to remain on the throne. Eurystheus, fearing Heracles' strength, assigned him 12 near impossible tasks known as the Twelve Labors of Heracles, the first being to kill the Nemean Lion whose impenetrable hide made it immune to weapons. After failing to harm the lion with arrows and his club, Heracles defeated it in hand-to-hand combat and used its claws to remove its near-

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Heracles, also known as Hercules, was the exceptionally strong son of Zeus and Alcmena. As an infant, he strangled two snakes sent by Hera to kill him. Later in life, he offered to serve King Eurystheus for 12 years to allow his stepfather to remain on the throne. Eurystheus, fearing Heracles' strength, assigned him 12 near impossible tasks known as the Twelve Labors of Heracles, the first being to kill the Nemean Lion whose impenetrable hide made it immune to weapons. After failing to harm the lion with arrows and his club, Heracles defeated it in hand-to-hand combat and used its claws to remove its near-

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Heracles, also known in Rome as Hercules, was the son of Zeus

and Almecna, a princess of Thebes.


Zeus' wife Hera, angered by infidelity, sent two snakes to kill him
while he was still a baby. But Heracles, who was very strong,
took the snakes between his pincer-strong fingers and strangled
them.
The boy was growing, getting stronger and stronger.
Years later, he learned that the King of Greece, Eurystheus,
wanted to dethrone the King of Thebes, Host, who was his
stepfather.
Heracles offered Eurystheus to be his slave for twelve years, if he
allowed his stepfather, Host, to remain on the throne during that
time.
Euristeo, when seeing it so strong, feared that it would dethrone
him and consulted the oracle of Apolo and this one said to him: -
It accedes to the request, but during that time it sends it to do
the most difficult and dangerous works that you can imagine.

One: Kill the Nemean Lion


Two: Kill the Lernean Hydra
Three: Capture the Cerynian Hind
Four: Capture the Erymanthian Boar
Five: Clean the Augean Stables
out the filth.

Six: Kill the Stymphalian Birds


Seven: Capture the Cretan Bull
Eight: Capture the Horses of Diomedes
Nine: Take the Girdle of the Amazon Queen 
Ten: Capture the Cattle cadol of Geryon
Eleven: Take the Golden Apples of the
Hesperides
Twelve: Capture Cerberus

As we know Hercules was in the service of


Eurystheus, his cousin, he feared that with
the growing fame of Hercules he wanted to
take the throne from him, so he sent Hercules
on an impossible mission. Assassinate the
dreaded Nemean lion. This lion was causing
a lot of trouble in the forests of Argonida,
attacking herds, and developing a taste for
human flesh, after killing a few men. The
inhabitants said that this lion was immune to
human weapons, because its skin was very
strong. Hercules armed with a bow and arrow
and his powerful hammer, went to the forests
of Argonida to look for the lion. After a few
days Hercules found the cave where he lived.
Hercules entered the lion's cave and could
see that it was full of animal bones and
human skulls. He could hear the animal's
breath deep in the cave. Suddenly the lion
appeared, Hercules took his bow and shot an
arrow at the animal's face. This arrow
bounced. Furious, the lion makes a great roar
and prepares to attack. Hercules strikes the
animal with his mallet but it remains
unscathed.
seeing that his weapons do not harm the hercules
lion he launches into a melee battle. The lion nails
his toenails into Hercules' back, but he continues
to fight. Finally Hercules takes the animal by the
neck and strangles it to death.
Hercules uses the animal's claws to remove its
skin and returns to Thebes triumphantly.
This was the story of Hercules and the Nemean
Lion. I hope you liked it. bye bye

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