![]() ![]() Hera left little Hercules alone for a while after this. She sent two serpents to destroy Hercules as he lay in his cradle, but the talented little infant strangled them with his own hands. Baby Hercules strangling snake, 2nd Century CE, photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen in 2006, $\ccpd$īut this was not enough to keep Hera calm. But he is more well-known by his Roman name, Hercules. Alcmena named the child “Heracles”, meaning “pride of Hera” in Greek, at another attempt to calm Hera. A few months later, Athena found his mother Alcmena and returned the baby to her. ![]() One day, Athena handed off the child to Hera to feed, but he bit so hard that Hera pulled away, and the milk went flying across the sky, and this is created what we call the “Milky Way.” After drinking divine milk, the baby became stronger and more god-like. Athena felt that this baby was special, and as the patron of heroes, brought the baby up to Mount Olympus to raise. ![]() However, from the sky Athena saw a bright light and went down to Earth to see what it was. Knowing that Hera would forever hate her child, Alcmena left the poor child on a hill to die, fearing that life for him would be a more horrible fate. As Hera was always hostile to the offspring of her husband by mortal mothers, she declared war against Hercules from his birth. Hercules was the son of Zeus and Alcmena. Unit 3: Adventure and The Hero’s Journey photo by FelixMittermeier on Pixabay, $\cczero$ The Adventures of HerculesĪdapted from The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch, $\ccpd$ ![]()
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