We asked him which labour he thought was the hardest. He told us that he thought that killing the Hydra, which had a dog’s body and nine snakes’ heads. As soon as Heracles struck one head off, two grew in it’s place. "If Iolaus hadn’t been with me on that one things could have got tricky! He lit the torch and handed it to me. That way I was able to hack of the heads and seal the necks. The blood of the Hydra has proved very useful since then as you know."

After that he intends to travel to Olympia and take part in the next Olympic Games. "I think I would do really well in the combat sports like wrestling, boxing and the pankration." We agree. Heracles, the mighiest of the mighty, has not yet finished doing great deeds. Far from it.