This week on the Myths and Legends podcast, we're going to finish up the 12

labors of Hercules in a podcast episode that has way too many monsters,

fights, centars, and fights with centars. I point out missed opportunities for

cheesy action movie one-liners. Hercules will kill way too many people

and wrestling matches, and you'll see that hydropoison coated arrows are the

cause of and solution to most Hercules' problems. Then,

on the creature of the week, if you fall and get a skirt on your leg,

it could be that sharp tree branch, or it could be these flying,

sickle-wielding weasel triplets.

This is the Myths and Legends podcast, episode 10b, labor intensive.

This is a podcast where I tell stories that have shaped cultures throughout history.

Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising

origins. Of those stories you probably haven't heard, but really should.

Previously on the podcast, I started the story of the 12 labors of Hercules.

He's the illegitimate son of Zeus, and by being the result of an extramarital affair,

Hera, Zeus' wife, dislikes him quite a bit, so much so that she has prepared

several monsters and labors to put him through in an attempt to shame and kill him.

She made him go mad and murder his wife and children, and he exiled himself from his

home city of Thebes. He heard from the Delphiocoreical that he must serve King Eurostheus

as a penance for his crimes and to earn immortality. He slew the Nami'an line in the Hydra last

episode, but only of the line-accounted, because his half-net few Iolus helped him with the Hydra.

In his mind, he has nine more labors to go. So, I had to make some choices with this story.

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