1. True or false? Correct false statements.
- Heracles was the son of Zeus and his wife Hera.
- Alcmene found a frightened baby Heracles crying in his cot with two dead snakes.
- Zeus wanted Heracles to be the king of Mycenae but this honour went to Eurystheus.
- The ony way to skin the Nemean lion was using a sword and a club.
- Heracles hunted and bound the Cerynean Hind, carrying it back to King Eurystheus.
- Heracles completed the fifth labour using both his superhuman strength and wits.
- Goddesses Artemis, Athena and Hera were on Heracles' side.
- Heracles had to kill the Minotaur that lived on the loose in Crete.
- Hera was very grateful when the Cretan Bull was offered as sacrifice to her.
- The eighth labour of Heracles was to kill the evil king Diomedes of Thrace.
- Heracles had to obtain the Girdle of the amazon, a kind of armour's belt.
- Heracles defeated the giant Geryon and brought his cattle back to Mycenae.
- Atlas helped Heracles to collect the apples of the Hesperides because humans weren't allowed into this garden.
- The last task was to enter the Tartarus and to kill the dog Cerberus.
- If Heracles was successful at completing the twelve labours he would earn the right to become a god.
2. Replace the underlined words without changing the meaning of the sentences using the following ones (there are three words left): had, lengthened, if, never, because, have, desired.
- Each labour was designed to be impossible, for Hera didn't want Heracles to succeed.
- Eurytheus' daughter longed to own the Girdle of the Amazon.
- We don't know whether Heracles had to kill the Amazon or whether she willingly gave the girdle to him.
- Heracles was to bring the king the dog Cerberus.
