简易英语读物《希腊神话-Greek Mythology》-(3)The Labors of Heracles-The son of Zeus, Heracles

简易英语读物《希腊神话-Greek Mythology》-（3）The Labors

of Heracles-The son of Zeus, Heracles

Princess Alcmene was so beautiful and kind that everyman who saw her and fall immediately love with her.

Even Zeus, king of all the gods, looked down at Alcmene from his throne in the sky and felt deeply in love with her beauty.

Zeus wished to take her as his bride so he visited at her one night, and they were secretly married.

Later, Alcmene gave birth to a son and named him Heracles.

Since Heracles was the son of Zeus，his strength was greater than any other men.

Hera was Zeus’ wife in Olympus, the land of god.

She knew how much her husband like beautiful woman and was jealous of Princess Alcmene.

Hera wanted greatly to see her die, but Zeus ordered her not to hurt Alcmene and Hera feared Zeus’ angry.

Instead, Hera decided to get her revenge of Alcmene to her son Heracles. When Heracles was just a baby, Hera sent two huge snakes into his nursery. Heracles lashed with two snakes and killed them.

Even as a baby, his strength was great.

During his life, Hera did many things to try to hurt Heracles.

After Heracles was married and had two children, Hera decided that it was her good time to take her revenge.

She made Heracles think that his wife had being sleeping with another man and that his children were not his own.

Heracles became so crazy with angry that he broke his wife’s neck and threw his children into a fire.

When he realized that the terrible deed that he had done, he was so filled with sadness that left his city and lived alone in a small cave in the mountains. For many months Heracles stayed in mountain cave and didn’t leave to see anyone.

He thought about what he had done and prayed to the gods to end his terrible sadness.

The gods met together to decide what to do with Heracles.

They were angry about his violence act, but they also felt that he had done so great things in his life and should receive a second chance.

The gods finally decided that Heracles would be forgiven if he used his strength for good.

Applo the messager of gods flew to Heracles’s cave and delivered this message.

“Powerful Heracles, you must travel to Argos and complete twelve tasks for your cousin Eurystheus”.

“Once you have completed these tasks, the gods will forgive you and your sadness can end”.

Heracles bowed to Applo and thanked gods for their wisdom and for giving him a second opportunity.

He then left for Argos to see his cousin Eurystheus.

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赫拉克勒斯的功绩-宙斯之子赫拉克勒斯

阿尔克墨涅公主是如此的美丽和善良，人见人爱。

甚至宙斯，众神之王，从他在天空中的宝座上低头看到了阿尔克墨涅，也深深地爱上了她。

宙斯想要娶她为新娘。

一个夜晚他来见阿尔克墨涅，他们偷偷地结了婚。 后来阿尔克墨涅生下了一个儿子，给他起名叫赫拉克勒斯。 由于赫拉克勒斯是宙斯儿子，他比任何其他人更强大。 赫拉是奥林波斯山上天神宙斯的妻子。

她知道她的丈夫最喜欢漂亮的女人，她很嫉妒公主阿尔克墨涅。

赫拉很想弄死阿尔克墨涅，但宙斯命令她不要伤害阿尔克墨涅，赫拉害怕惹怒宙斯，没有敢动她。

赫拉决定报复阿尔克墨涅的儿子赫拉克勒斯，以泄愤。

当赫拉克勒斯还只是孩子的时候，赫拉将两条大蛇送入他的婴儿房。 赫拉克勒斯与两条蛇扭打在一起并杀死他们。 赫拉克勒斯甚至在婴儿时，力量就很大。

在他的一生，赫拉做了很多事，试图伤害赫拉克勒斯。

后来，赫拉克勒斯结了婚并有了两个孩子后，赫拉觉得正是她报仇的好机会。 她想法让赫拉克勒斯认为他的妻子与另一名男子有染，两个孩子也不是他自己的。

赫拉克勒斯极其愤怒，他扭断他妻子的脖子，把他的孩子扔进了火中。 当他意识到他做了可怕的事情，非常悲伤。他离开了城市，独自住在一个小山洞穴中。

赫拉克勒斯在山洞住了好几个月，不见任何人。 他反思自己的行为，向神祈祷以结束可怕的悲伤。 神们在一起开会研究如何处理赫拉克勒斯。

他们对他的暴力行为非常生气，但他们认为他毕生做了很多伟大的事情，应该得到第二次的机会。

神终于决定赫拉克勒斯如果用力量做好事，可以被原谅。 神使阿波罗飞到赫拉克勒斯的山洞，把这神的意思传达给他。

\强大的赫拉克勒斯，你必须前往阿尔戈斯，为你的表兄欧律斯透斯完成十二个任务\。

\一旦你完成了这些任务，神会原谅你，你的悲伤可以结束\。

赫拉克勒斯向阿波罗鞠了个躬，感谢神的智慧，给了他第二次的机会。 然后，他前往阿尔戈斯，去见他的表兄欧律斯透斯。

1. 阿尔克墨涅（英语：Alcmene）是希腊神话中的人物，是珀耳修斯的孙女、梯林斯和迈锡尼国王厄勒克特律翁之女、底比斯国王安菲特律翁之妻、大力神赫拉克勒斯之母。宙斯曾化身为安菲特律翁的形象，与阿尔克墨涅结合，后来生下赫拉克勒斯。古希腊的诗人赫西俄德描述阿尔克墨涅为最美丽的女人，智慧

比所有的凡人都高，她的脸和黑色的眼睛像阿芙洛狄特一样美丽，而且她会荣耀自己的丈夫.

2. 欧律斯透斯(Eurystheus): 在希腊神话中，希腊梯林斯（Tiryns）的国王。梯林斯是阿尔戈利斯州三个迈锡尼文明的遗址之一。

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