Fabulae Faciles: Hercules
What you'll learn
- Be prepared to move on to the more challenging "Jason and the Argonauts" stories of the Fabulae Faciles reader.
- Establish a good study routine that will enable you to advance in the Latin language.
- Perfect the basic elements of Latin syntax and grammar.
- Develop a mastery of the essential vocabulary of all Latin authors.
Requirements
- The Text of the Junior Latin Reader
Description
This series of lectures picks up after the Perseus stories, as represented in the textbook, A Junior Latin Reader. It's advisable to run through those stories first (also available on Udemy) before approaching these Hercules passages. Your experience with Perseus will not only build up the basic vocabulary and syntax you'll need for the Hercules stories, but you'll also learn how best to use the materials on this site.
Who this course is for:
- homeschoolers
- self-learners
Course content
- Preview51:43
- 15:2613. Heracles and the Serpents
- 41:3514. The Music Lesson
- 19:4115. Hercules Escapes Sacrifice
- 22:4716. A Cruel Deed
- 24:2117. The Defeat of the Minyae
- 24:4818. Madness and Murder
- 21:0319. Hercules Consults the Oracle
- 23:4020. The Oracle's Reply
- 24:3921. The Nemean Lion
- 23:0522. The Lernean Hydra
- Preview17:14
- 19:2224. The Erymanthian Boar
- 23:3125. Hercules at the Centaur's Cave
- 21:2026. The Fight with the Centaurs
- 22:3327. The Fate of Pholus
- 20:4228. The Augean Stables
- 24:5429. The Stymphalian Birds
- 23:0230. The Cretan Bull
- 25:1531. The Man Eating Horse of Diomedes
- 16:5732. The Girdle of Hippolyte
- 17:5433. The Girdle Is Refused
- 21:1434. The Battle
- 22:1435. The Defeat of the Amazons
- 17:3236. Laomedon and the Sea-Monster
- 19:3437. The Rescue of Hesione
- 16:1438. The Oxen of Geryon
- 20:0739. The Golden Ship
- 16:3240. A Miraculous Hail-Storm
- 19:1841. The Passage of the Alps
- 20:4742. Cacus Steals the Oxen
- 17:5843. Hercules Discovers the Theft
- 19:3744. Hercules and Cacus
- 17:0845. The Golden Apples of the Hesperides
- 16:4746. Hercules Asks Aid of Atlas
- 18:3347. Hercules Bears up the Heavens
- 33:2148. The Return of Atlas
- 18:5049. Cerberus The Three-Headed Dog
- 25:2950. Charon's Ferry
- 17:5451. The Realm of Pluto
- 24:1452. Hercules Crosses the Styx
- 23:4853. The Last Labor Is Accomplished
- 21:3754. The Centaur Nessus
- 24:5455. The Poisoned Robe
- 20:5156. The Death of Hercules
Instructor
![Ben Lugosch](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Dr. Lugosch taught all areas of classical studies at the undergraduate and graduate level, and published scholarly articles on Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Homer. Recently retired, Dr. Lugosch still leads small private tours to Italy, Greece, Turkey and France that explore artifacts of classical antiquity.
These lectures help support his money-losing hobby farm in Kentucky where he raises organic pigs, grass fed beef, pastured chickens, Californian rabbits, and all manner of vegetables.