CLA 210 STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔4th Labor- The Erymanthian Boar - ✔✔-had to capture boar
-heracles asked for centaurs and he attacked
-they fled to Chiron (wounded, always in pain, but immortal)
-Heracles traded his mortality for agonizing immortality, Chiron died.
✔✔5th Labor- The Augean Stables - ✔✔-Augeas (son of Helius) had many horses but
never cleaned stables, so Heracles had to clean it.
-Said if he cleaned it in 1 day (he did), he should get 1/10 of Agueas's scuttle.
-Created river. Augeas didn't pay up because he learned Herc was working for
Eurytheus.
✔✔6th Labor- The Symphalian Birds - ✔✔-birds had arrow firing wings and armor
piercing beaks
-heracles shoots them down
✔✔7th Labor- Cretan Bull - ✔✔-had to capture/ from sea of Minos.
-later killed by Theseus
✔✔8th Labor- Horses of Diomedes - ✔✔-had to capture horse. then dined on human
flesh
-Alcestis: Apollo was forced to serve under Admetus for a year by Zeus. Treated God so
well that he was told he could live if he found someone else to die in his place. Apollo's
only wite, Alcestis, was willing. Heracles gets drunk and funeral and so bring back
Alcestis from the dead
✔✔9th Labor- Girdle of Hippolyta - ✔✔-Amazon queen who hated men
-had to bring back
-to loosen girdle was to offer sexually, to take off forcibly was rape
-Heracles was offered girdle quickly, Hera almost ruined plan so he had to kill Hippolyta
✔✔10th Labor- The Cattle of Geryon - ✔✔-had to capture/3 bodies joined at waist (had
2 headed dog)
-was given cup by sun-god
-drove cattle from spain, to france, to Italy
-Also, Bursiris
-Bursiris (son of Poseido who scarified every foreigner) til Heracles killed him
✔✔11th Labor- Prometheus - ✔✔-Prometheus was still getting his liver eaten by an
eagle every day until Hearcles killed the eagle.
-Asked Atlas to get appeals while he held up the sky, but tricked him to hold the sky
again and took the apples
, ✔✔12th Labor- Cerebus - ✔✔-Cerebus was a many headed guard god of underworld
-Used lion skin as armor, but the snake tail bit him, yet still made it to Eurstheus.
✔✔Metopes - ✔✔12 stone panels where 12 labors were formed.
*12 is a magic number for them
✔✔Iole & Heracles - ✔✔-Iole (daughter of King Oecnalia) offered as prize in archery
contest.
-Heracles won, but b/c of incident w/ Megara the King wouldn't give up Iole, and
Heracles accidentally killed the King's son.
-To atone w/ Apollo for this murder he had to serve as a woman's slave for 3 year and
give all money to King Oecnalia
-The woman he served, Omphale (queen of lydia) was also a lover
-Captured cercopes (two mean guys who robbed passerby's and treated them cruelly)
✔✔Death of Heracles - ✔✔-Deianira (man killer) was recommended by brother to marry
Heracles
-Heracles was also wanted by Acheious (river god), but fought Heracles & died.
-Nessus- Centaur who ferried travelers for small fee
-Assaulted Deianira, * Heracles shot him w/ arrow. Before Nessus died, he instructed
Deianira to collect semen & blood for potion that would make Heracles never look at
another women
-Deianira learned about Iole & gave Heracles the potion
-Potion killed him instead of keeping him faithful
-Deianira killed herself
-Heracles made a God
✔✔Heraclids - ✔✔-sons of Heracles, whom Eurystheus was determined to kill.
-instead they kill him
✔✔Theseus & Athens - ✔✔-Theseus is Athen's greatest Hero
✔✔3 Claims to origin of Athens (Athenians) - ✔✔1) descended from a mortal named
Cecrops
2) They were autochtonous (sprung from earth)
3) They were descended from Athena (City named after)
✔✔Cecrops - ✔✔-taught monogamy, to worship Zeus, abandon human sacrifice, to
build cities, to bury dead properly
-Born from Hephaestus getting semen on Athena's leg
-Loss of Athena's sexual innocence
-Became king of Athens
-Now festival of girls losing viriginity "Festival of dew carriers"
✔✔Erichthonius - ✔✔-another king of Athens, the theme of Athenian autochthony
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔4th Labor- The Erymanthian Boar - ✔✔-had to capture boar
-heracles asked for centaurs and he attacked
-they fled to Chiron (wounded, always in pain, but immortal)
-Heracles traded his mortality for agonizing immortality, Chiron died.
✔✔5th Labor- The Augean Stables - ✔✔-Augeas (son of Helius) had many horses but
never cleaned stables, so Heracles had to clean it.
-Said if he cleaned it in 1 day (he did), he should get 1/10 of Agueas's scuttle.
-Created river. Augeas didn't pay up because he learned Herc was working for
Eurytheus.
✔✔6th Labor- The Symphalian Birds - ✔✔-birds had arrow firing wings and armor
piercing beaks
-heracles shoots them down
✔✔7th Labor- Cretan Bull - ✔✔-had to capture/ from sea of Minos.
-later killed by Theseus
✔✔8th Labor- Horses of Diomedes - ✔✔-had to capture horse. then dined on human
flesh
-Alcestis: Apollo was forced to serve under Admetus for a year by Zeus. Treated God so
well that he was told he could live if he found someone else to die in his place. Apollo's
only wite, Alcestis, was willing. Heracles gets drunk and funeral and so bring back
Alcestis from the dead
✔✔9th Labor- Girdle of Hippolyta - ✔✔-Amazon queen who hated men
-had to bring back
-to loosen girdle was to offer sexually, to take off forcibly was rape
-Heracles was offered girdle quickly, Hera almost ruined plan so he had to kill Hippolyta
✔✔10th Labor- The Cattle of Geryon - ✔✔-had to capture/3 bodies joined at waist (had
2 headed dog)
-was given cup by sun-god
-drove cattle from spain, to france, to Italy
-Also, Bursiris
-Bursiris (son of Poseido who scarified every foreigner) til Heracles killed him
✔✔11th Labor- Prometheus - ✔✔-Prometheus was still getting his liver eaten by an
eagle every day until Hearcles killed the eagle.
-Asked Atlas to get appeals while he held up the sky, but tricked him to hold the sky
again and took the apples
, ✔✔12th Labor- Cerebus - ✔✔-Cerebus was a many headed guard god of underworld
-Used lion skin as armor, but the snake tail bit him, yet still made it to Eurstheus.
✔✔Metopes - ✔✔12 stone panels where 12 labors were formed.
*12 is a magic number for them
✔✔Iole & Heracles - ✔✔-Iole (daughter of King Oecnalia) offered as prize in archery
contest.
-Heracles won, but b/c of incident w/ Megara the King wouldn't give up Iole, and
Heracles accidentally killed the King's son.
-To atone w/ Apollo for this murder he had to serve as a woman's slave for 3 year and
give all money to King Oecnalia
-The woman he served, Omphale (queen of lydia) was also a lover
-Captured cercopes (two mean guys who robbed passerby's and treated them cruelly)
✔✔Death of Heracles - ✔✔-Deianira (man killer) was recommended by brother to marry
Heracles
-Heracles was also wanted by Acheious (river god), but fought Heracles & died.
-Nessus- Centaur who ferried travelers for small fee
-Assaulted Deianira, * Heracles shot him w/ arrow. Before Nessus died, he instructed
Deianira to collect semen & blood for potion that would make Heracles never look at
another women
-Deianira learned about Iole & gave Heracles the potion
-Potion killed him instead of keeping him faithful
-Deianira killed herself
-Heracles made a God
✔✔Heraclids - ✔✔-sons of Heracles, whom Eurystheus was determined to kill.
-instead they kill him
✔✔Theseus & Athens - ✔✔-Theseus is Athen's greatest Hero
✔✔3 Claims to origin of Athens (Athenians) - ✔✔1) descended from a mortal named
Cecrops
2) They were autochtonous (sprung from earth)
3) They were descended from Athena (City named after)
✔✔Cecrops - ✔✔-taught monogamy, to worship Zeus, abandon human sacrifice, to
build cities, to bury dead properly
-Born from Hephaestus getting semen on Athena's leg
-Loss of Athena's sexual innocence
-Became king of Athens
-Now festival of girls losing viriginity "Festival of dew carriers"
✔✔Erichthonius - ✔✔-another king of Athens, the theme of Athenian autochthony
