Hercules, Megara, and Hades from Disney's Hercules are in front of the Hercules logo
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Disney’s Hercules might derive many elements from Greek mythology, but it makes some major changes to the mythos that inspired the movie. In the past 100 years, Disney has repeatedly borrowed from classic fairytales, but one of the best Disney movies of the 1990s borrowed source material from Greek mythology instead.
Throughout the movie Hercules, the Greek names for the characters are used for all but the titular main character. In the Greek mythos, the hero was born with the name Alcaeus, but he took on the name Herakles. The name means glorious gift of Her, a hilarious twist since he was born to a mortal mother, not Hera. The spelling of Hercules only came when the Romans stole – or synthesized, depending on which classicist you ask – the Greek gods and heroes, renaming them.
8 Disney’s Hercules Minimizes The Twelve Labors Disney Shows Four Of The Twelve Labors Of Hercules Close One of the biggest reasons Herakles became famous is because he completed 12 labors for the Mycenaen King Eurystheus with the promise from Apollo that he would become immortal. According to The Met, the 12 labors include the following:
6 Hades Didn't Hate Hercules Hades Had No Reason To Hate Hercules In Greek Mythology Hades had a good enough relationship with Herakles that he lent the hero his dog Cerberus for his twelfth labor . The only hero who famously rode Pegasus is Bellerophon, not Hercules. In Greek mythos, the creature that Zeus created out of the clouds was Nephele, a nymph made in the shape of Hera. Despite not being mythologically accurate, Disney made the right choice to include Pegasus in Hercules because he became one of the most likable Hercules main characters.
3 Narcissus Couldn’t Have Been At The Top Of Mount Olympus Narcissus Wasn't A God In Greek Mythology Only the gods and goddesses were allowed a place on Mount Olympus, and Narcissus was a mortal based on his genealogy.
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