He raised Hercules up as if he were his own and gave him the best education money could afford and taught him how to fight and shoot a bow. Rather than being annoyed, he was quite please at this turn of events. He realised at once that Hercules was almost certainly a son of a god and not his own child. His stepfather Amphitryon ran into the room and saw what the young Hercules had done. Hercules, despite being only a child, grabbed a snake in each of his hands and strangled them. Iphicles awoke and began screaming which woke up the nearby Hercules. For her next attempt she placed two serpents in the bed chamber of Hercules and Iphicles. The birth of Hercules didn’t stop Hera from continuing to plot his demise. The goddess initially succeeded in stopping Hercules from being born, but eventually she was distracted from the task and Alcmena did give birth to Hercules and Iphicles. She dispatched the goddess of childbirth to cause some problems with the pregnancy of the children. She would then take out her anger on the women Zeus had seduced and also on the children he produced. Zeus had a habit of being unfaithful to his wife Hera, and she would often become very jealous. Hera caught wind of Zeus’ infidelity and the pregnancy of Alcmena. It was now that things started to go a little bit wrong for Hercules. The son of Zeus, Hercules, and Amphitryon’s son, Iphicles. The same night Alcmena also made love to the real Amphitryon and so, she became pregnant with twins. He took the form of Amphitryon and made love to Alcmena. It was in Thebes that the god Zeus took a liking to Alcmena. When Amphitryon accidentally killed his own father in law, he and his wife had to flee to the city of Thebes. Hercules mother was Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, king of Tiryns. What Happened After the 12 Labors of Hercules?. Fetch the Golden Apples of the Hesperides Retrieve the Girdle of the Amazon Hippolyte Tame and Bring Back the Man-Eating Horses of Diomedes Capture and the Release the Cerynean Stag So lets dive into the early life of Hercules a bit. There is a lot to the story of Hercules and some background would be useful.
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