This is the last installment in my series of posts on the Twelve Labors of Hercules in Why Myths Still Matter (see Parts 1 and 2). Here we consider the final five Herculean labors and their possible ...

Kyle Staver, "Hercules and the Lion" (2022), oil on canvas, 52 x 68 x 1 1/2 inches (courtesy the artist and Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles) LOS ANGELES — Of all the mythic Greek figures, Hercules is ...