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To enter the world of dead, Heracles had to undergo the Mysteries rites, performed by Eumoplus at Eleusis. Heracles then has to travel to Tainaron in Laconia, where there was an entrance to the Underworld.
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Heracles slew the giants Cycnus, Porphyrion and Mimas. The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles.
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This labour should have been easy, but it took Heracles over a year to capture the hind. Heracles brought down the hind with an arrow aimed at its hoof, without killing the creature.
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