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dos this story remind you of the flood..Fifth labour of Heracles[edit] Heracles rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus. Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD. The fifth Labour of Heracles (Hercules in Latin) was to clean the Augean stables /ɔːˈdʒiːən/. This assignment was intended to be both humiliating (rather than impressive, as had the previous labours) and impossible, since the livestock were divinely healthy (immortal) and therefore produced an enormous quantity of dung. These stables had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and over 1,000 cattle lived there. However, Heracles succeeded by rerouting the rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash out the filth
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