Crossword-Solution: HERACLES
We have 26 clues for the answer “HERACLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| He performed 12 labors | 1 answer |
| Performer of the 12 labors, to the Greeks | 1 answer |
| NESSUS, slayer of | 1 answer |
| Monster-slaying Argonaut | 1 answer |
| JUVENTAS, husband of | 1 answer |
| HERCULES (Gk. form of) | 1 answer |
| Greek name of mythical hero. | 1 answer |
| BUSIRIS, slayer of | 1 answer |
| GERYON, slayer of | 2 answers |
| ORTHUS, slayer of | 2 answers |
| Nessus' victim | 2 answers |
| ANTAEUS, slayer of | 2 answers |
| NEMEAN lion, slayer of the | 2 answers |
| MEGARA, slayer of | 2 answers |
| MEGARA, husband of | 2 answers |
| LAOMEDON, slayer of | 2 answers |
| LADON, slayer of | 2 answers |
| CHIRON, slayer of | 2 answers |
| IOLE, captor of | 2 answers |
| HYLLUS, father of | 2 answers |
| HYDRA, slayer of | 2 answers |
| DEIANIRA, husband of | 2 answers |
| DEIANIRA, victim of | 2 answers |
| DELANIRA, husband of | 2 answers |
| Argonaut leader | 10 answers |
| argonaut | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HERACLES (5)
The _Theogony_ might be tentatively placed a century later; and the _Catalogues_ and _Eoiae_ are again later, but not greatly later, than the _Theogony_: the _Shield of Heracles_ may be ascribed to the later half of the seventh century, but there is not evidence enough to show whether the other “developed” poems are to be regarded as of a date so low as this.
Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.
And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Heracles.
And her Heracles, the son of Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver.
There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of Nemea and Apesas: yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him.
Quotes with HERACLES (3)
Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward." I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this." I'm going to be th…
... Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space…
I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants’ sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).