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.
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rerouted two rivers
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