Hera nourishes baby Heracles, painting by P. P. Rubens

Hera, Heracles and creation of the Milky Way, painting by Tintoretto

Baby Heracles strangles snakes sent by Hera

Heracles murders Linos, his music teacher

Tiryns , bronze age citadel site, aerial view

LABOR 1: Heracles vs. the Nemean lion

Heracles & Nemean Lion, BF

Heracles & Nemean Lion, RF

Emperor Commodus (reigned AD 180-192) dressed as Hercules

LABOR 2: Heracles fights the Lernaean Hydra

LABOR 3: Heracles and the Cerynean hind (deer)

Artemis, Apollo, Cerynean hind, Heracles, Athena

LABOR 4: Heracles brings the Erymanthian boar to Eurystheus, with Athena & Hermes

Heracles battles the centaurs Pholos and Hylas

LABOR 5: Heracles cleans the Augean stables, metope from temple of Zeus at Olympia

LABOR 6: Heracles hunts the Stymphalian birds

LABOR 7: Heracles and the Cretan bull, metope from temple of Zeus at Olympia

Heracles & Cretan bull, BF vase by Lysippides, ca. 530 BC

Heracles & Cretan bull, RF case by Andokides

LABOR 8: Heracles and the mares of Diomedes

Drunken Heracles, in palace of Alcestis and Admetus, from Herculaneum

LABOR 9: Heracles fights Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons

Closeup of #22: Heracles and Hippolyta

Heracles and Hippolyta on a metope from Temple E at Selinus , Sicily

Closeup of #24: metope of Heracles and Hippolyta, ca. 465 BC

LABOR 10: Heracles battles triple-bodied Geryon

Heracles wrestles Antaios, RF vase by Euphronius

Landscape with Hercules and Cacus, by N. Poussin, 1658-59, in Moscow

Detail of #28: Hercules and Cacus

Hercules pulling Cacus from his cave, painting by Dominiquin, 1581

Hercules and Cacus by Bandinelli, Piazza della Signoria, Florence , 1525-34

Detail of #31: Bandinelli's Cacus

LABOR 11: Heracles in the garden of the Hesperides

Closeup of #33: Heracles and the Hesperides

Athena, Heracles and Atlas with golden apples, metope from temple of Zeus at Olympia , ca. 470-460 BC

Heracles rescues Prometheus from Mt. Cithaeron

The "Hercules Farnese," Roman staute ca. AD 210, now in Naples

"Hercules Farnese" with golden apples in his hand

LABOR 12: Heracles brings Cerberus to Eurystheus, Caeretan hydria ca. 525 BC

Heracles approaches Cerberus

Hermes aids Heracles to abduct Cerberus from Underworld

Heracles battle Triton, a sea monster

Triton versus Heracles

Heracles carrying the Cercopes, metope from Temple E at Selinus , Sicily

Heracles and Orpheus among the Argonauts, by the Orvieto painter

Heracles fights the centaur Nessos for Deianira

Fresco of Nessos, Deianira and Hercules, from House of the Centaur, Pompeii

Iphitus, Iole and Heracles, Corinthian krater, ca. 600 BC

Detail of #48: Iole and Heracles

Apollo and Heracles contesting the Delphic tripod

Heracles stealing the Delphic tripod from Apollo

Fresco from Pompeii, shows EITHER Hercules at court of Omphale OR Hercules before Dionysus (Bacchus)

Hermes and Athena lead Heracles into Mt. Olympus to become a god

Athena presents Heracles to Zeus or Poseidon

Apotheosis of Hercules, by P. P. Rubens, in Brussels

Wedding of Heracles and Hebe, observed by Olympians