Fan Casting Heracles

Episode 10: The Cattle Heracles was tasked with retrieving the Cattle of Geryon, a three-headed, three-bodied giant. Heracles braved the blazing heat of the Libyan desert to find Geryon wearing three helmets, holding three shields and three spears. Heracles could not possibly defeat the giant in close combat so he instead took a ranged approach. With a single shot, Heracles pierced a venomous arrow through all three of Geryon's heads. As the giant fell to his death, Heracles threw the giant's cow over his shoulders and began to trudge through the desert once more. Heracles, enraged at the heat of the sun, shot an arrow at it. He awakened the god, Apollo, impressed by his bravery. Apollo not only offered Heracles his chariot to ride across the desert but he also offered advice. Apollo told Heracles of Orpheus, a hero who nearly rescued his wife from the Underworld. Apollo told Heracles that the greatest way to kill a god is not to take their life them, it is to take their power. Nothing makes a God feel weaker than when you prove them powerless over you.