Heracles
13 important questions on Heracles
How was Herakles viewed in Antiquity?
What did Aristotle think of the story of Herakles?
Why was Herakles deemed a great moral example?
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Who wrote the story about Herakles at the crossroads?
What was the link between Emperor Commodus and Herakles?
Why is Herakles a tragic hero according to Sophokles?
Why is Herakles a tragic hero according to Euripides?
What are Herakles' human proportions, according to Theocritus?
2. Because he falls in love several times, like any young man would.
In what way can Herakles be deemed a comic character?
- He only understands the concept of desire when it is explained to him as peasoup.
- He still eats after his best friend Admetus has been killed.
- He eats an entire plough ox.
In which ways were Herakles and Christ likened during the early Middle Ages?
- They both came back to Earth after death.
- At birth, they were marked for death.
- They wandered the Earth performing miracles.
- After death, they ascended to Heaven/Olympus.
- Temples were built in their names.
How does Raoul Lefevre describes Herakles in his Recuyell des Histoires de Troyes?
What is Herkules auf dem Scheidewege?
How is Herakles portrayed differently from the original character in the Disney movie?
- He is made mortal by Hades, not by Hera.
- He falls in love with Meg.
- He is seen as a loner, so a human character.
- He becomes a mortal hero on Earth so he can live with Meg; not a God on the Olympus.
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