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238 – The Labors of Hercules

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Hercules and the Great Herdsman

Hercules' tenth labor was to be in the far west, beyond the country of Spain. Here lived the giant Geriam, a great monster with three bodies and three heads. With his herdsmen, men his two-headed dar called Orthras he looked after huge flocks of oxen. Hercules came into his land to lift the cattle and to destroy the giant. Next, Hercules was commanded to go to the country of the Amazons,. The fierce warrior women, and bring back the girdle of their queen Hippolyte. Later, as is well known, Hippolyte became the wife of Theseus of Athens and bore him an ill-fated son

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