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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.
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.
Stables. Really big ones.
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
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It took Hercules one day to clean the stables because he diverted the path of a river to wash the stables clean.
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.
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.
One. He bore holes in the floor.
Hercules did not participate in the Trojan War, but as one of his twelve labors he was assigned to clean the Augean Stables.
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.
"My homework last night was like Hercules' assignment to clean the Augean Stables".
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
The Greek Mythological Hero Heracles was given twelve 'impossible' tasks to perform. These are called the Twelve Labours of Hercules. (Of course, he completed them all).The fifth labour was to clean the stables of Augeas, king of Elis.Augeas had an enormous herd of divine cattle. These produced an unimaginably huge quantity of dung, and no-one had ever succeeded in cleaning their byre. (Heracles was given only one day).Cleaning the Augean stables is proverbial: it means a job so dirty and so huge that no-one can hope to succeed at it. (Except maybe Heracles).----Current examples of tasks that might be called cleaning the Augean stables would include:* removing all the corrupt politicians from the Zimbabwe government * replacing all the dubious ballot results in the Iranian election with figures which are trustworthy * exposing all the mediums on American daytime TV who are fake
ask about in stables!