Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmena. Eurystheus, the of Mycenae and his cousin, made hin unergo some dificult tasks, which are known in Greek myth as the "twelve labours of Hercyules".
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The first involved a fight with a lion. The valley of Nemea was being disturbed by a terrible lion and so Eurystheus ordered Hercules to slay the beast and bring him his skin. At first, Hercules tried to fignt the lion with his club and arrows but this took him nowhere. Then Hercules attempted a different tactic: he decided he would use his hands. He thus managed to slay the animal on his own, relying entirely on his immense strength. Victorious, he retured to Mycenae carring the dead lion on his shoulders, a sight that terrified the king.
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His nest task was to slay a monster called Hydra that was ravaging the country of Argos. The Hydra had nine heads, of which the middle one was said to be immortal.Our hero stuck of his heads with his club, but whenever he knocked of its head, two new ones erupted in its place. Eventually with the help of his devoted servant Lolaus, Hercules succeded in burning all the heads of the Hydra except the ninth or the immortal one, with he decided to bury down under a big rock. In other words, Hercules triumphed again, as he would every time he was given an impossioble task by Eurystheus! And this is how he began to acquire the reputation of a hero possessing immense strength thougth the world
