1.2 Heracles

A podcast by DJ Watkins and AJ Keen of Bristol Grammar School to help GCSE Class Civ pupils to revise for their Myth and Religion and Homeric World topics.
Episode 2 - The Universal Hero: Heracles / Hercules

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:52 The twelve labours
• 2:02 The Nemean Lion
• 2:26 The Lernaean Hydra
• 3:33 The Golden Hind
• 4:24 The Erymanthian Boar
• 5:01 The Augean Stables
• 6:17 The Stymphalian Birds
• 7:10 The Cretan Bull
• 8:14 The Mares of Diomedes
• 9:39 The Belt of Hippolyte
• 11:18 The Cattle of Geryon
• 13:22 The Apples of the Hesperides
• 14:41 Cerberus
• 15:49 Exam answers: the metopes
• 18:07 The Romans and Hercules
• 18:35 Hercules and Cacus
• 19:23 The cult of Hercules in Rome
• 20:48 Hercules and Achelous
• 22:53 Hercules and Nessus
• 24:10 The death of Hercules