The Fall and the First Six Labours

Strength does not begin the labours; guilt and servitude do. The first six tasks keep Heracles largely within Greece while teaching him that force often needs craft beside it.

Events

• The Infant Heracles Strangles the Serpents
• Hera Drives Heracles Mad
• The Oracle Orders Heracles to Serve Eurystheus
• The Nemean Lion
• The Lernaean Hydra
• The Ceryneian Hind
• The Erymanthian Boar
• The Augean Stables
• The Stymphalian Birds