One of Heracles's Twelve Labours was to clean out the Augean Stables. They had not benn cleaned out in years, and weas piled high with mirt and muck. Hercales simply diverted the Alpheus and Penius rivers and the stables were cleaned practically to destruction.
The stables had not been cleaned or years, and Hercules did so by rerouting two rivers. So the illustration is to take a long-standing problem, one that had become worse over the years as people ignored it, and use an "out of the box" solution to take care of it.
Only one day: he simply made holes in the stable wall and changed the course of the rivers Alpheus en Peneus, effectively washing the stables clean.
King Augeas of Elis.
theyre were 12; slay the nemean lion slay the hydra get artemis's stag get a boar from crete clean Augean Stables drive away stymphalian birds get bull of king minos get the man eating mares of king diomedes get the girdle of hippolyta get the golden apples get the cattle of Geryon get cerberus from the underworld
It took Hercules one day to clean the stables because he diverted the path of a river to wash the stables clean.
Hercules did not participate in the Trojan War, but as one of his twelve labors he was assigned to clean the Augean Stables.
One. He bore holes in the floor.
"My homework last night was like Hercules' assignment to clean the Augean Stables".
Cleaning the Augean Stables was one of the labours of Heracles (or Hercules). The stables were massive and had not been cleaned for many years. As such they were filthy, and it was said that to stand in the stables for more than a minute was to risk infection.
it's a task that seems impossible but can be done. or heroic efforts taken to overcome a task sometimes regarding the task of concentration from Hercules fifth labour when he had to clean the Augean stables in one day
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One of Heracles's Twelve Labours was to clean out the Augean Stables. They had not benn cleaned out in years, and weas piled high with mirt and muck. Hercales simply diverted the Alpheus and Penius rivers and the stables were cleaned practically to destruction.
The stables had not been cleaned or years, and Hercules did so by rerouting two rivers. So the illustration is to take a long-standing problem, one that had become worse over the years as people ignored it, and use an "out of the box" solution to take care of it.
Hercules cleaned his stables.
He diverted a river through them.
Only one day: he simply made holes in the stable wall and changed the course of the rivers Alpheus en Peneus, effectively washing the stables clean.