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Fabulae Faciles: Hercules
Rating: 4.9 out of 5(24 ratings)
149 students
Created byBen Lugosch
Last updated 10/2020
English

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.

Course content

1 section • 45 lectures • 16h 40m total length

  • 12. The Hatred of Juno51:43
  • 13. Heracles and the Serpents15:26
  • 14. The Music Lesson41:35
  • 15. Hercules Escapes Sacrifice19:41
  • 16. A Cruel Deed22:47

    Explore Hercules's cruel deed in the Thebes context by reviewing chapters 12–15, translating key Latin passages, and reinforcing essential vocabulary to accelerate reading fluency.

  • 17. The Defeat of the Minyae24:21
  • 18. Madness and Murder24:48
  • 19. Hercules Consults the Oracle21:03
  • 20. The Oracle's Reply23:40
  • 21. The Nemean Lion24:39

    Hercules defeats the Nemean lion and wears its stripped-off pelt as a shirt after subduing the beast with a huge club and his mighty strength.

  • 22. The Lernean Hydra23:05

    Explore the Lernean Hydra myth, where Hercules battles a swamp-dwelling monster with nine heads. He severs the heads and burns the necks with a torch to end the threat.

  • 23. The Cerynean Stag17:14
  • 24. The Erymanthian Boar19:22
  • 25. Hercules at the Centaur's Cave23:31
  • 26. The Fight with the Centaurs21:20
  • 27. The Fate of Pholus22:33
  • 28. The Augean Stables20:42
  • 29. The Stymphalian Birds24:54
  • 30. The Cretan Bull23:02
  • 31. The Man Eating Horse of Diomedes25:15
  • 32. The Girdle of Hippolyte16:57
  • 33. The Girdle Is Refused17:54
  • 34. The Battle21:14
  • 35. The Defeat of the Amazons22:14

    Explore how Hercules defeats the Amazons and captures their queen. Learn how Latin impersonal and subjunctive forms convey motive and sequence in this mythic episode.

  • 36. Laomedon and the Sea-Monster17:32

    Laomedon refused to pay the gods after building Troy's walls, provoking Neptune to unleash a sea-monster, with Hercules later involved in the divine bargain.

  • 37. The Rescue of Hesione19:34
  • 38. The Oxen of Geryon16:14
  • 39. The Golden Ship20:07
  • 40. A Miraculous Hail-Storm16:32

    Explore Hercules as the subject of a compelling scene, analyzing Latin grammar and syntax amid a miraculous hail-storm and vivid, dramatic imagery.

  • 41. The Passage of the Alps19:18
  • 42. Cacus Steals the Oxen20:47

    Hercules confronts Cacus after the oxen theft, while the lesson analyzes Latin grammar, including the ablative of time and the subtleties of time when and time within which.

  • 43. Hercules Discovers the Theft17:58

    Hercules uncovers a theft by tracing deceptive footprints that mislead away from the herd, while the narration analyzes Latin verb forms and phrases tied to the incident.

  • 44. Hercules and Cacus19:37
  • 45. The Golden Apples of the Hesperides17:08
  • 46. Hercules Asks Aid of Atlas16:47
  • 47. Hercules Bears up the Heavens18:33
  • 48. The Return of Atlas33:21
  • 49. Cerberus The Three-Headed Dog18:50
  • 50. Charon's Ferry25:29

    Explore Charon's ferry and the underworld through Latin grammar, tracing Orcus and Styx terminology while analyzing demonstratives, indicatives, anticipatory subjunctives, and noun declensions.

  • 51. The Realm of Pluto17:54
  • 52. Hercules Crosses the Styx24:14

    Explore Hercules crossing the Styx in the underworld, teaching key Latin vocabulary and grammar—imperatives, verbs of crossing, and related constructions through grounded commentary.

  • 53. The Last Labor Is Accomplished23:48
  • 54. The Centaur Nessus21:37

    Explore the legend of Hercules and the centaur Nessus, while analyzing Latin grammar in action: adjectives as nouns, the accusative, indirect questions, and effective clauses.

  • 55. The Poisoned Robe24:54
  • 56. The Death of Hercules20:51

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

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