Hercules in Texts and Art

List of links to pictures of Heracles available from Perseus.

List of fiction divided by period. A few works about Hercules including those that are more familiar as TV scripts for The Legendary Journeys.

Read the passage from Xenophon that explains how Heracles was told about the two very different paths he might take in life.

List of prehomeric myth, Homer and Troy, archaic, classical, Hellenistic, Cleopatra, and films of Greek drama. Several movies feature Hercules.

The Frogs, an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes (405 B.C.), features Heracles.

Euripides wrote Heracles between 421-416 B.C. This English translation is by E. P. Coleridge.

Lesson plan based on the myth and Disney's film; includes vocabulary, comparison of movie and more standard treatment (e.g., encyclopedia), and Internet work.

Perseus' biography from Perseus. Basic information and pottery depictions of the greatest Greek hero.

From Dr. Janice Siegel, there were as many female mythic heroes as males. Male heroes travel to places; females do their heroic deeds at home. Heroes need a divine passport to the world of the gods.