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Posted by Chris, the one who is told he looks just like Link!!(from the new games, not the show) on March 04, 1999 at 12:04:48 in 207.99.255.133 :
In Reply to: Re: complaints posted by Kelly Harris on March 04, 1999 at 11:24:25:
: : : I'm a casual watcher of Herc/Xena at best. My Mom watches Herc, my Dad watches Xena... I get filled in on what's going on from them weither I want to hear it or not. BTW... you know what really bugs me? Everyone in Hercules is walking around with a Greek name... ... EXCEPT HERCULES!!! His name in Greek is really Heracles, named after Hera. That's one sure fire way of getting Hera mad on a regular basis...
: : Since when did the discussion get to be about Hercules? TO settle the Greek name thing....Jason's not a greek name, and they use it, and Hercules is the Greek spelling, the Romans spelt it Heracles(sorry, but I study that stuff.)
: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
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: Her-a-cles \'her-a-,klez\ n [Gk Herakles]: HERCULES
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: Her-cu-les \'her-kya-,lez\ n [L, fr. Gk Herakles 1 : a mythical Greek hero fabled for his great strength and esp. for performing 12 labors imposed on him by Hera 2[L(gen. Herculis)]: a northern constellation between Corona orealis and Lyra
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: Encyclopedia Britanica: Micropædia
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: Heracles,Greek HERAKLES, Roman HERCULES, most famous Greco-Roman legendary hero. Behind his very complicated mythology there was probably a real man, perhaps a chieftain-vassal of the kingdom of Argos. Traditionally, however, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (see Amphitryon), granddaughter of Perseus. Zeus swore that the next son born of the Perseid house should become ruler of Greece, but by a trick of Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, another child, the sickly Eurystheus, was born first and became king; when Heracles grew up, he had to serve him and also suffer the vengeful persecution of Hera. His first exploit, in fact, was the strangling of two serpents that she had sent to kill him in his cradle.
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: Later, Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married Megara, one of the royal princesses. But he killed her and their children in a fit of madness sent by Hera and, consequently, was obliged to become the servant of Eurystheus. It was Eurystheus who imposed upon Heracles the famous Labours, later arranged in a cycle of 12, usually as follows; (1) the slaying of the Nemean lion, whose skin he thereafter wore; (2) the slaying of the nine-headed Hydra of Lerna; (3) the capture of the elusive hind (or stag) of Arcadia; (4) the capture of the wild boar of Mt. Erymanthus; (5) the cleansing, in a single day, of the cattle stables of King Augeas (q.v.) of Elis; (6) the shooting of the monstrous man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marshes; (7) the capture of the mad bull that terrorized the island of Crete; (8) the capture of the man-eating mares of King Diomedes of the Bistones; (9) the taking of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons; (10) the seizing of the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, who ruled the island Erytheia (meaning Red) in the far west; (11) the bringing back of the golden apples kept at the word's end by Hesperides; and (12) the fetching up from the lower world of the triple-headed dog Cerberus, guardian of its gates.
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: Having completed the Labours, Heracles undertook further enterprises, including warlike campaighns. He aslo successfully fought the river god Achelous for the hand of Deianeira. As he was taking her home, the Centaur Nessus tried to violate her, and Heracles shot him with one of his poisoned arrows. The Centaur, dying, told Deianeira to preserve the blood from his wound, for anyone wearing a garment rubbed with it would love her forever. Several years later, Heracles fell in love with Iole, daughter of Eurytus, king of Oechalia. Deianeira, realizing that Iole was a dangerous rival, sent Heracles a garment smeared with the blood of Nessus. The blood proved to be a powerful poison instead, and Heracles died. His body was placed on a pyre on Mt. Oeta (modern Greek Oiti), his mortal part consumed and his divine part ascending to heaven. There he was reconciled to Hera and married Hebe.
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: In art and literature Heracles was represented as an enormously strong man of moderate height; a huge eater and drinker, very amorous, generally kindly but with occasional outbursts of brutal rage. His characteristic weapon was the bow but frequently also the club.
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: In Italy he was worshipped as a god of merchants and traders, although others also prayed to him for his characteristic gifts of good luck of rescue from danger.
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: Hercules (Greco-Roman mythology); see Heracles.
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: You were saying, Chris?
So my research isn't so great these days. So sue me. (must have been those old crappy Herc movies that threw me off.)
