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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (61460)10/28/2014 9:08:55 PM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 69300
 
You can't even get the Hercules thing right. His last labor was capturing the guard dog of the underworld, Cerberus.

You're thinking of Hercules stealing the three golden apples. The serpent you're imagining was a hundred headed dragon, who guarded the apples, along with a bunch of nymphs, i/o trying to get someone to eat them.

Where did this dragon come from?
The image of the dragon (Ladon) coiled round the tree, originally adopted by the Hellenes from Near Eastern and Minoan sources ...