The Return from Olympus

Olympus Here are all the most important gods mighty Zeus his treacherous wife Hera handsome singer Apollo ruler of the seas Poseidon warrior Ares goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and wise Athena Here is the illegitimate son of Zeus Hercules a demigodhalfman Having missed the Earth he begs for travel on it from Zeus before sunrise He is accompanied by an eagle a cunning and insinuating creature the same one who once pecked Prometheus and from which Hercules saved him On Earth Hercules enters the temple dedicated to him and his twelve feats There he remembers some of them