Task: stealing golden apples.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Tasks: stealing, capturing, or slaying. · view the constellation · filed as H1151.1
“When Hercules called for wine, he said he feared to open the jar which belonged to the centaurs in common.? But Hercules, bidding him be of good courage, opened it, and not long afterwards, scenting the smell, the centaurs arrived at the cave of Pholus, armed with rocks and firs. The first who dared to enter, Anchius and Agrius, were repelled by Hercules with a shower of brands, and the rest of them he shot and pursued as far as Malea.”
— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. V · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan
- IcelandicThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VThompson cites: MacCulloch Eddic 179, *Boberg Greek: Fox 87, Frazer Apollodorus I 220 n. 1.