Anonymous ID: c69565 Jan. 8, 2018, 12:02 a.m. No.23982   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Stable Genius: like Hercules using the A,P rivers to drain the swamp/clean the huge messy stables. Tired mom wishes for a meme.

 

Fifth labour: Augean stables

Hercules cleaning the Augean stables (mosaic from Roman Spain, 201–250 CE)

Main article: Augeas

 

The fifth labour was to clean the stables of King Augeas. This assignment was intended to be both humiliating (rather than impressive, as the previous labours had been) and impossible, since the livestock were divinely healthy (and immortal) and therefore produced an enormous quantity of dung. The Augean /ɔːˈdʒiːən/ Stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and over 1,000 cattle lived there. However, Hercules succeeded by re-routing the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash out the filth.

 

Before starting on the task, Hercules had asked Augeas for one-tenth of the cattle if he finished the task in one day, and Augeas agreed. But afterwards Augeas refused to honour the agreement on the grounds that Hercules had been ordered to carry out the task by Eurystheus anyway. Hercules claimed his reward in court, and was supported by Augeas' son Phyleus. Augeas banished them both before the court had ruled. Hercules returned, slew Augeas, and gave his kingdom to Phyleus. According to the Odes of the poet Pindar, Hercules then founded the Olympic Games: