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Two causes As a young man, Heracles was invited by two young women, who was representing pleasure and Virtue respectively, to choose between the easy path of Pleasure and the rocky uphill path of virtue. He chose the latter. When Heracles reached manhood, Hera, who was still jealous of him, drove him insane. In madness, he killed his three children and his wife. When he recovered his sanity, he shut himself up in a dark chamber for some days. After purification he went to Delphi. There he was told to put himself at the service of Eurystheus for twelve years. Hera and eurystheus came up with twelve tasks for Hera’s mortal stepson to complete. These tasks are known as the twelve Labors of Heracles.  Kill the Demean Lion, which a was depopulating the area of a Nemea.  The beast’s parentage was supernatural and it was more of a monster than an ordinary lion. Its pelt, which was proof against all weapons, could not be penetrated by spears or arrows. Heracles wrestled with it and finally strangled the creature to death with his bare hands. Overcome the nine-headed snake known as the Hydra. Since one of the snaky heads was immortal, he tried in vain to batter with his club. No sooner was one crushed, than two or three more grew in its place. Finally his nephew helped him out by searing the stumps of the heads as soon as he cut them off. In this fashion, he cut off the heads one by one , and finally lopped off the immortal head and buried it deep beneath a rock. The capture of the Cerynitian hind. The Cerynitian hind was a female deer, a fleet-footed beast with golden horns. It was sacred to Artemis, goddess of the hunt, so he didn’t dare to wound it. He chased the hind around for one full year and finally captured it without drawing one drop of blood. The fourth Capture a wild boar that terrorized people around