Heracles and the Cerynaean Hind

For his third Labour, Heracles was told to fetch the Cerynaean hind from Arcadia, alive. Eurystheus hoped that in doing so, Heracles would both fail and make a mortal enemy of Artemis, to whom the hind was sacred. But Artemis took Heracles’s part, and Eurystheus’s cunning plans miscarried once again.

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