the walls of Thebes. Jupiter tricked his wife into breast-feeding the infant, and this made the child immortal (Graves, 1955, 90-91).
The resentment of Juno continued into the adulthood of the hero, and Hercules could not seem to escape from her wrath from time to time. He was a hero to the people of Thebes, and Creon, the king, gave him his daughter in marriage. Juno, however, afflicted Hercules with a sudden madness so that he did not know what he was doing, and in his frenzy he killed both
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