Ep 3 - The Twelve Labors of Jerkules (Hercules) Part 1

Put on your Nemean Lion pelts and grab your cudgels! We're talking about Hercules this week: twelve labors, two parts, and two bottles of wine! In this first half, we are talking Hercules’ family line, early years nabbing that sweet God milk from Hera, killing snakes and music teachers and earning that pelt and cudgel, and actually living a pretty happy life with his happy wife Megara.

Then boom. Hera strikes and tragedy. One angry stop to talk to the Oracles and now Hercules has gotta do some labors for his cousin, Eurystheus. We predict, Lions, hydras, hinds, and boars, and oh my a whole mess of cow poop are in Herk the Jerk’s future.

PodcastChristian MadonnaSeptember 8, 2018Drunk, Myth, Mythology, Humor, Podcast, Comedy, History, Storytelling, Philosophy, storytelling, Education, Greek, Hercules, Herakles, Hero, Demigod, Hera, Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Hades, Hydra, Numean Lion, Lion, Cudgel, Lion Pelt, Oracle, Twelve Labors, Ancient Greece, Alcmene, Amphitryon, Perseus, Iphikles, God Milk, Mount Cithaeron, Minyans, Orchomenus, Thebes, Creon, Megara, Oracle at Delphi, Pythia, Eurystheus, Mycenae, Tiryns., Tiryns, Lerna, Gulf of Argos, Iolaus, Ceryneian Hind, Mount Erymanthus, Elis, King Augeas, man-eating birds, Stymphalian Marshes, Hephaestus, Crete, white bull, MinotaurComment