Can anyone interpret the twelve labors of Hercules?

Question

example (to kill the nemean lion = to eliminate cancer)

Answer 1

There is nothing to interpret.  It is a myth of Heracles' feats.  I've never heard of killing the nemean lion being equal to eliminating cancer.  

Answer 2

1.King Eurystheus ordered him to bring the skin of an invulnerable llion

2.was to kill the Lernean of the murky water

3.was to bring the hide of Ceryneia which is a red female deer

4.was to bring the Erymanthian boar alive

5.he was ordered to clean King Augeas stables

6.was he was ordered to drive away an enormous flock of birds.

7he had to dispose of the Cretan bull.

8.he was sent to get the man eating mares of Diomedes and bring them to hin in Mycenae.

9.he had to get the belt of Hippolyte.

10.Eurysthes ordered him to bring him the castle of the monster Geryon.

11.he had to get the golden apples which belonged to Zeus.

12.He had to go to the underworld and kidnap the beast called Cerberus.