Monday, 5 April 2021

THE LABORS OF HERACLES # 08: THE MARES OF DIOMEDES

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 his cousin king Eurystheus

The eighth labor for our hero and his squire Abderus

Was to captures the man-eating mares of Diomedes

The King of Thrace was fed to his horses by Heracles

He soon herded them down to the sea as he planned

Where he embarked them for Tiryns his homeland

Once he returned, they were released by Eurystheus

They were eaten by wild animals on Mount Olympus

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