Essays on Hercules

It’s ironic, in a really really sad way, that this movie has probably had some of the best exposure and distribution of any Italian-made movie in the post-spaghetti western era; I challenge you to find any Italian movie more readily found in the corner video…

Many people have heard about the greek god/hero Hercules. Especially because of the disney movie created in 1997 about him. Today i’ll be telling you why Hercules is important to greek mythology, some characteristics and symbols about him, and many more interesting facts. Hercules is…

As the song “Zero to Hero” from Disney’s “Hercules” tells it, Hercules went “… From zero to hero in no time flat. Zero to hero just like that…”. Now, it is safe to say that Disney took quite a few creative liberties with their movie…

In today’s world, when people hear the word hero, they often imagine Spiderman, Batman, Superman, even a police man, which is acceptable as they possess some incredible qualities but what we think of hero in our society is quite different to the heroes in Greek….

Hercules and King Arthur came from two different cultures; Hercules is Greek while King Arthur is Celtic. The Greek culture was created before the Celtic culture but they co-existed at one point in time and were later taken over by the Roman Empire. The Greek…

Friendship Friendship is a term which defines the affection between two or more people. It usually rises from mutual interests and common aims. These pursuits are strengthened by the benevolent interests that sooner or later grow. The choice of friend can be important since it…

A myth is a story, which is traditional in nature, and it talks about the early history of a group of individuals or a society. It also explains a social or natural occurrence and it almost always includes supernatural events or beings. Mythology, therefore, is…

Euripides’ Heracles is the story of the illegitimate child of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Heracles was generally referred to as the epitome of Greek heroes in Greek mythology. Heracles’ defining traits is his exceptional fortitude, and his most defining story is the completion of…