When Hercules was married, Hera drove him into a fit of madness and Hercules killed his wife Megara and his children. When Hercules regained his sanity and realized what he had done, he went to the Oracle of Delphi to find out what he had to do for atonement. The oracle told him that the only way to atone himself was by going to serve his cousin Eurystheus,
the king of Tyrins. Hera who still hated her husbands illegitimate child, plotted the destruction of Hercules with Eurystheus. When Hercules arrived at Tyrins, his cousin decreed that Hercules would have to perform 12 perilous labours. These labours included such feats as the slaying of the Lion of Nemea, the killing of the Lernaia Hydra, an awesome water snake with nine heads, the destruction of the man-eating birds of Stymphalus, the Harpes and bringing Eurystheus three golden apples from the garden of Esperides, which was guarded by the immortal dragon with the hundred heads.

Hippokrates wird von den Wissenschaftlern als Gründer der Medizin betrachtet. Er war der wichtigste Arzt in der Antike und der beste Vertreter der medizinischen Fakultät auf Kos. Desweiteren sei er ein großer Philosoph und Menschenfreund gewesen. Hippokrates wurde als Sohn des Arztes Irakleida und Fenareti...
Gemäß dem populärsten Mythos war Asklepios der Sohn von Apollon und Koronis, der Tochter des Königs Phlegyas. Koronida verliebte sich in Ishi und somit veranlasste Apollo ihren Tod durch seine Schwester Artemis. Apollo rettete das Kind aus dem Leib von Koronida, brachte es zu Pylio und übergab die Erziehung an...













































