<Li> Capture and bring back Cerberus . </Li> <P> The first labour was to slay the Nemean lion . </P> <P> According to one version of the myth, the Nemean lion took women as hostages to its lair in a cave near Nemea, luring warriors from nearby towns to save the damsel in distress . After entering the cave, the warrior would see the woman (usually feigning injury) and rush to her side . Once he was close, the woman would turn into a lion and kill the warrior, devouring his remains and giving the bones to Hades . </P> <P> Hercules wandered the area until he came to the town of Cleonae . There he met a boy who said that if Hercules slew the Nemean lion and returned alive within thirty days, the town would sacrifice a lion to Zeus, but if he did not return within thirty days or he died, the boy would sacrifice himself to Zeus . Another version claims that he met Molorchos, a shepherd who had lost his son to the lion, saying that if he came back within thirty days, a ram would be sacrificed to Zeus . If he did not return within thirty days, it would be sacrificed to the dead Hercules as a mourning offering . </P>

According to greek mythology whose eleventh labor was to steal the apples from the hesperides