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Augean Stables [r]: From Greek mythology, stables which Heracles cleaned by diverting the course of two rivers to run through the stables, thereby washing them.

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	From [[Ancient Greece\|Greek]] [[mythology]], ~~the fifth labor of~~ [[Heracles]] ~~involved cleaning these stables which had never been~~ cleaned~~. How did he do this? Diverting~~ two [[~~rivers~~]]~~, of course,~~ to run through ~~them. Source: [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship\|scholar]], authority on Greek mythology and [[Greek tragedy]], including~~ the ~~''[[Iliad]]''~~, ~~''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' for [[The Teaching Company]]~~.		From [[Ancient Greece\|Greek]] [[mythology]], stables which [[Heracles]] cleaned by diverting the course of two [[river]]s to run through the stables, thereby washing them.