Hercules labours II. Augean stables.

Hercules diverting the river towards
the Augean stables.

Other task which Hercules had to achieve was the cleaning of Augean stables.

Augeas was king in old Greece. He had a very wide stable; and he had never cleaned them. A lot of manure piled there, and nobody dared to face the task.

Hercules was conmined to clean the stables, but only in ONE DAY. An imposible work, even for a hero. Fortunately Hercules, apart of strong, was intelligent. He went to the mountains and he diverted a river directly to the stables. Thus, the water of the river cleaned them, and Hercules could finish his work in a single day.