Hercules and His 12 Labors: The Whole Myth, One by One

Hercules was ordered to do ten labors. So why does everyone count twelve? In the ancient tellers, the answer is simple: the king refused to count two of them. This is the whole myth of Hercules and his twelve labors, told one by one from the ancient tellers: the Library under Apollodorus' name and Diodorus of Sicily, with Euripides where he adds something. Where they disagree, the video says who says what. Chapters 0:00 The king in the jar 1:00 A king by a trick 2:43 Monsters near home 4:54 Dirty jobs and wild horses 7:13 The edges of the world 10:04 Ten became twelve Sources 1. Apollodorus, Library 2.4.8-2.5.12 and 2.7.7, tr. Sir James George Frazer (Loeb, 1921), Perseus Digital Library. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/... 2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Heracles". https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hera... 3. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.9-4.39, tr. C. H. Oldfather (Loeb, 1935), LacusCurtius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/... 4. Herodotus, Histories 7.226, tr. A. D. Godley (1920), Perseus Digital Library. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/... 5. Euripides, Heracles, tr. E. P. Coleridge, Perseus Digital Library. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/... 6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Apollodorus of Athens (the Library under his name). https://www.britannica.com/biography/... 7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Diodorus Siculus. https://www.britannica.com/biography/... 8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: Euripides. https://www.britannica.com/biography/...