destruction. Possessed by an unbridled hatred, he burns his own home to the ground and turns his back on the pleas of a desperate farmer, Lycus of Ister, to save the men of his village who are being turned to stone by a she-demon. Unbeknownst to Hercules, Iolaus agrees to help Lycus and the two set out for Ister while Hercules pays a visit to his mother and vows to take personal revenge on Hera by destroying each of her seven temples.
After forcing his way into the first of her temples, he interrupts the sacrificial slaying of a beautiful slave girl, Aegina (Clare Carey), and rescues her from
