According to Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes, the oracle said to him, “the gods want you to serve your cousin Eurystheus,” (Riordan 272). The tasks he would have to do for Eurystheus became known as the the Twelve Labors. The Twelve Labors Hercules had to successfully accomplish were to kill the Nemean lion, hydra, Erymanthian boar, Ceryneian hind, Stymphalian birds, Stables in Elis, Cretan bull, Thracian mares, Amazon Queen’s belt, Iberian cows, to collect the golden apples, and to finally slay the Cerebus. Because he completed all the tasks, he was forgiven of all the atrocities he had