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As a young adult, Heracles defended Thebes from the tyrant king of Orchomenus, with the help of Athena, another favorite child of Zeus’. When the tyrant was destroyed, and the new king, Creon, took his rightful throne, he awarded Heracles with a marriage to his daughter Megara. Though the marriage was not the happiest, he nonetheless settled down with his wife and children. But life was not destined to go so smoothly for Heracles.
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Heracles returned to Thebes. He separated from Megara [or, according to Euripedes, killed her in his madness] and decided to seek a new wife. Eurytus of Oechalia was looking for a husband for his daughter Iole, but the potential suitor had to shoot better than he. Heracles did just that, and Eurytus accused him of cheating. Disgruntled, Heracles departed, vowing revenge.
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When Heracles grew up, he was made a servant to Eurytheus and his vengeful step-mother, Hera. Hera once sent him a fit of madness, which caused him to kill his wife, Megara and their children. Some of his exploits included were known as "The Labors of Heracles". These were imposed by Eurystheus for killing the latter's wife and children:
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During the course of his life, Heracles married four times. His first marriage was to Megara, whose three children he murdered in a fit of madness and whom he later gave in marriage to his beloved Iolaus, because the sight of her was too painful. His second wife was Omphale, the Lydian queen or princess to whom he was delivered as a slave.
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A major factor in the tragedies surrounding Heracles stem from Hera's hatred of him; as the wife of Zeus she often hated his mortal offspring, especially so in Heracles' case. A few months after he was born she sent to serpents to kill him as a he lay in his cot. Heracle's throttled a single snake in each hand and was found by his nurse playing with their limp bodies as if they were child's toys.
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Hera, still persecuting Heracles 1, drove him mad, and as a result he killed his wife Megara and his children by her, flinging them into the fire. But some assert that only his children were killed, and that Megara later married another man (see below). And others say that Heracles 1 was about to kill Amphitryon too, when Athena threw a stone at him, and rendered him unconscious.
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