Heracles when driven mad by the goddess Hera
Murdered
his three children and his wife Megara
The
Delphic oracle punished him for the murders
By ordering him to perform the Twelve Labors
The labors were set by king Eurystheus his cousin
Capturing
a beast was the next labor he was given
He
spent the next year hunting the Cerynitian hind
In
Arcadia near the Ladon River it was there to find
The
Cerynitian hind was a fleet-footed female deer
Who
had golden horns and ran faster than a spear
The
hind was sacred to goddess of the hunt Artemis
So
Heracles dared not wound it and so dare not miss
So
between tendons and bones he aimed with his bow
Pinning
its legs without drawing blood with his arrow
Artemis
was displeased but Heracles appeased her
Simply
by blaming king Eurystheus his taskmaster
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