About Hercules
Hercules is most popular of all Greek heroes, famous for extraordinary strength and courage. Hercules incurred the everlasting wrath of Hera because he was the child of her unfaithful husband. When he was a young man, Hercules defended Thebes from the armies of a neighboring city, Orchomenus, and was rewarded with Megara, daughter of King Creon.After he had recovered his sanity, he sought purification at the court of King Eurystheus of Tiryns for 12 years. Cleaned the stables of Augeas; captured the Cretan bull and the horses of Diomed, etc.