1) THE LION OF NEMEAHeracles received the order from Eurystheus to bring him the skin of the Lion of Nemea. The lion terrorized the Nemean valley. The lion was a monstrous offspring of Echidna and Orthus or Typheus, or had plunged from the moon (Selene) to the earth. Heracles used his bow and arrows to shoot the lion, but he noticed that the arrows could not penetrate its skin. So he attacked it with his clubs, causing the lion to run into a cave that had two entrances. Hercules blocked an entrance, then wrestled with the lion and strangled it. Following this, he began to skin it and wrapped himself in its skin after offering a sacrifice to Zeus. Hercules returned to Mycanae with the lion clinging to his shoulder. Eurystheus was terrified when he saw Heracles dressed in the lion's skin and ordered him to leave all his future trophies outside the city gate. Eurystheus then had a large bronze jar made and buried in the earth so that whenever Heracles returned from a task, he would hide in this jar and use a messenger to convey his next orders to the hero out of fear.2 ) THE LERNAN HYDRA Second job of Heracles was to kill the Lernaean Hydra (water serpent). The Hydra was daughter of Typheus and Echidna, and sister of Orthus and Cerberus. The hydra lived in the marshes of Lerna and consumed both men and animals. The hydra was a female monster with a large dog-like body and several serpentine heads. One of these heads was immortal. The hydra possessed poisonous breath that killed anyone who inhaled it. Heracles was accompanied by his nephew and charioteer Iolaus, who was the son of his twin brother Iphicles and Automedusa. They arrived at the Amynone spring, where the monster lived in retreat. Heracles hunted the beast...... middle of paper ......ion of the Argonauts, had countless herds. When Hercules asked the king for a tenth of the animals for cleaning the stables, the king agreed because he was convinced that the task was impossible. But Hercules was smarter than the king imagined: he demolished a wall and diverted the waters of the Alpheus and Peneius rivers to the stables. The stables were cleaned within hours, but Augeias refused to keep his promise, insisting that Hercules had a duty to do this work for Eurystheus. To make matters worse, Eurystheus refused to give him credit for completing the work, claiming that he had done it as work for hire. As some other storytellers point out, Eurystheus refused credit and Augeias refused payment, because they claimed that the river gods Alpheus and Peneus, rather than Hercules himself, had accomplished the feat..