What were they? The only one I can remember, and that vaguely, is his having to clean out a huge stable and rerouting a river through it. And having to retrieve three golden apples…My famous memory has let me down. Please help!
Actually, there were Twelve Labors. I can’t remember all of them at the moment, but the ones I remember are:[ul]
[li]Kill the Hydra[/li][li]Kill the Nemean Lion[/li][li]Capture Cerberus from the Underworld[/li][li]Clean out the Augean Stables[/li][li]Capture the Apples of the Hesparides[/li][li]Capture the Cretean Bull[/li][li]Take the girdle of the Amazonian Queen Hippotoyla[/li][/ul]
Hmm. That’s all I can think of.
The others were
[ul]
[li] Capturing the man-eating mares of King Diomedes[/li][li] Driving away the Stymphalian birds[/li][li] Capturing the golden Hind of Ceryneia[/li][li] Capturing the cattle of Geryon[/li][li] (The hardest one for me to remember) Capturing the Erymanthian boar [/li][/ul]
The Nemean Lion
The Lernean Hydra
The Hind of Ceryneia
The Erymanthean Boar
The Augean Stables
The Stymphalian Birds
The Cretan Bull
The Horses of Diomedes
The Belt of Hippolyte
Geryon’s Cattle
The Apples of the Hesperides
Cerberus
Doh, should have hit preview. 
I searched and found this cool encapsulated and illustrated version of Heracules’ life.
Beautiful! Thank you all!
The Brunching Shuttlecocks version is great too:
http://www.brunching.com/laborsofhercules.html
http://www.brunching.com/laborsofhercules2.html
What about when he had to gather the stunflower seeds from the edge of the bottomless cliff?
Oh, wait a minute, that was Li’l Abner, wasn’t it?
Carry on.
Agatha Christie did a very cute take on this, called “The Labors of Hercules”, a set of short stories where her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot tries to emulate his name-sake. The Nemean Lion turns out to be a Pekinese dog, the many-headed hydra is a scandal, etc.
I much prefer the Erotic Adventures of Hercules. “Hercules! The Siren tore off my clothes!”
Ah, Hercules. Hero of song and story…
The Cyclops, rather.
Though if it been an agressive lesbian Siren, that’s even sexier.