Thursday, 8 April 2021

THE LABORS OF HERACLES # 10: THE CATTLE OF GERYON

 

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

His tenth labor was stealing the cattle of Geryon

The three headed Geryon owned the herd of cattle

It was he and two headed Orthrus he had to battle

After clubbing the hound with just a single blow

Heracles stole the cattle dispatching Geryon also

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