1. Both Heracles and Achilles wear female clothes for a time.

2. Heracles, Ares: We are the friends of justice.

3. Achilles and Heracles were ancient Greek heroes.

4. Nereus had advised Heracles not to pluck the apples himself, but to employ Atlas as his agent[http:///heracles.html], meanwhilerelieving him of his fantastic burden.

5. One man , Heracles of Athens emerged as its undisputed leader.

6. Finally Heracles resorted to some castanets given to him by the goddess Athena.

7. That man was Heracles , and the battle fell out as I prophesied.

8. When the infant Heracles caught Hera"s two serpents in its hands, it was Tiresias who cast the child"s fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of the boy .

9. It was Nereus who advised Heracles to seek Prometheus in the hero's search of the golden apples.

10. Coaxed into helping his friend Pirithous to kidnap Persephone, Theseus went down there, only to be chained to a black stone, and rescued later by Heracles when the latter came to steal Cerberus.

11. Amongst these were slaying the many-headed Hydra, retrieving the Golden Apples of the Hesperides and bringing the hellhound Cerberus up from the Underworld. Heracles was also an Argonaut.

12. BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.