![]() Megara is introduced as a maiden who sold her soul to Hades to save the life of her boyfriend who promptly abandoned her for someone else. Hercules’ relationship with Megara is also greatly changed.” However, in the myths, it was Theseus who killed the Minotaur and Perseus who beheaded Medusa. Hercules brags to Zeus: “You should have been there, Father! I mangled the minotaur, grappled with the Gorgon.In the myths, Heracles kills the centaur Nessus as it was trying to rape Heracles’ second wife, Deianira, while ferrying her across a river. In the film, Hercules defeats the centaur Nessus while defending Megara.Phil is also a satyr, probably inspired by the myth of Chiron, who was a centaur that trained heroes. For this to be true, the Trojan War would have already had to have ended, but in the myths, Heracles lived long before the Trojan conflict. Phil also claims to have trained Achilles, Odysseus, Perseus, Jason, and Theseus. ![]() Phil claims to have the mast of the Argos, the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts (including Heracles) sailed to their adventures. In the myth Philoctetes was a warrior who fought alongside Heracles. His name is Philoctetes (“Phil” in the film) and he has trained many heroes. In the film, Hercules is given a mentor who does not appear in the myths.In the Greek myth, the couple continually fought and they were often at each other’s throats. In the film, Zeus and Hera are portrayed as a loving married couple.Heracles knows that Zeus is his father from a young age. Hercules doesn’t know about his divine origins late in adolescence.Hercules gets adopted by two loving elderly farmers, named Amphitryon and Alcmene, the name of the mother and stepfather of Heracles.In the myth, Heracles did not have the Pegasus, who belonged to the hero Bellerophron. ![]()
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