Leg 4

JP Gold Member [M:7] Indeed! Posts: 2,262	Leg 4 Jul 2, 2007 20:27:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JP on Jul 2, 2007 20:27:09 GMT -5 Friday at 9 PM. I should be here.

Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 2, 2007 20:53:51 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 2, 2007 20:53:51 GMT -5 I should be aswell!

JP Gold Member [M:7] Indeed! Posts: 2,262	Leg 4 Jul 4, 2007 15:10:30 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JP on Jul 4, 2007 15:10:30 GMT -5 Yay! Hopefully we come in first!

Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 4, 2007 15:21:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 4, 2007 15:21:52 GMT -5 That would be NICE!

Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 8, 2007 15:05:12 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 8, 2007 15:05:12 GMT -5 IM BACK!!! INTERNET IS UP!

JP Gold Member [M:7] Indeed! Posts: 2,262	Leg 4 Jul 8, 2007 19:16:55 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JP on Jul 8, 2007 19:16:55 GMT -5 Awesome! The next leg is later. I should be here!

Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 8, 2007 19:59:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 8, 2007 19:59:36 GMT -5 We are both here lol

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1) Heracles - Death of Heracles

This is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX. Having wrestled and defeated Achelous, god of the Acheloos river, Heracles takes Deianara as his wife. Travelling to Tiryns, a centaur, Nessus, offers to help Deianara across a fast flowing river while Heracles swims it. However, Nessus is true to the archetype of the mischievous centaur and tries to steal Deianara away while Heracles is still in the water. Angry, Heracles shoots him with his arrows dipped in the poisonous blood of the Lernaean Hydra. Thinking of revenge, Nessus gives Deianara his blood-soaked tunic before he dies, telling her it will "excite the love of her husband". [23]

Several years later, Rumour tells Diaenara that she has a rival for the love of Heracles. Diaenara, remembering Nessus' words, gives Heracles the blood-stained shirt. However, it is still covered in the Hydra's blood from Heracles' arrows, and this poisons him, tearing his skin and exposing his bones. Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him (according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him). Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a funeral pyre, which Philocetes lights. As his body burns, only his immortal side is left, and Zeus apotheosises him, raising him to Olympus as he dies.

2) Hydra - The details of the confrontation are explicit in Apollodorus (2.5.2): realising that he could not defeat the Hydra in this way, Heracles called on his nephew Iolaus for help. His nephew then came upon the idea (possibly inspired by Athena) of using a burning firebrand to scorch the neck stumps after decapitation, and handed him the blazing brand. Heracles cut off each head and Iolaus burned the open stump leaving the hydra dead; its one immortal head Heracles placed under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius (Kerenyi1959 p 144), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete. The alternative to this is that after cutting off one head he dipped his sword in it and used its venom to burn each head so it couldn't grow back.

3) Medusa - In all the versions, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone.

4) Icarus - Icarus died by flying too close to the sun, his wax wings melted and he plummeted to the ground to his death.

5) Asterius - Theseus killed the Minotaur and led the other Athenians back out of the labyrinth.

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Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 9, 2007 20:16:17 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 9, 2007 20:16:17 GMT -5 1) cdolu-- cloud 2) hlip-- phil 3) dhase-- hades 4) ehcrslue-- hercules 5) berescru-- cerberus PAssword to ROute board is phil
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Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 13, 2007 9:20:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 13, 2007 9:20:24 GMT -5 4th :/ I thought we did better than that...

JP Gold Member [M:7] Indeed! Posts: 2,262	Leg 4 Jul 13, 2007 15:08:45 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JP on Jul 13, 2007 15:08:45 GMT -5 Yea, me too. Well at least we're not seen as threats.

Anthony (C2M) Senior Member [M:5] Posts: 1,421	Leg 4 Jul 13, 2007 16:02:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Anthony (C2M) on Jul 13, 2007 16:02:31 GMT -5 true