He diverted a river through them.
It took Hercules one day to clean the stables because he diverted the path of a river to wash the stables clean.
Hercules cleaned his stables.
rerouted two rivers
Hercules did not participate in the Trojan War, but as one of his twelve labors he was assigned to clean the Augean Stables.
King Augeas of Elis.
One. He bore holes in the floor.
"My homework last night was like Hercules' assignment to clean the Augean Stables".
Cleaning the Augean Stables was one of the labours of Heracles (or Hercules). The stables were massive and had not been cleaned for many years. As such they were filthy, and it was said that to stand in the stables for more than a minute was to risk infection.
The stables had not been cleaned or years, and Hercules did so by rerouting two rivers. So the illustration is to take a long-standing problem, one that had become worse over the years as people ignored it, and use an "out of the box" solution to take care of it.
ask about in stables!
it's a task that seems impossible but can be done. or heroic efforts taken to overcome a task sometimes regarding the task of concentration from Hercules fifth labour when he had to clean the Augean stables in one day
Stables. Really big ones.