Herakles and the Twelve Labours: The City of Greed - First Day of the Worst Grief of Mythology's Greatest Hero

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Quite why it was that he acquiesced to this punishment, none were destined to know for quite some time, though it must be said that he confided in his nephew that he was far too numb in spirit, to consider defiance. This was confided long after what he termed his ‘surrender’, or what others called the ‘Submission to the Oracle’, and that he considered h…