Her Herculean efforts to ruin him all failed and in the end Heracles was killed by the trait that Hera hated so much…. “Heracles was then living upstairs, on the mountain top, with Hera, the goddess who unsuccessfully tried to kill and torture him. They searched for the Golden Fleece, conquered Troy, fought against the Gigantes and of course, rescued heroines.”ĭidn’t the same type of things occur during the human battle with Troy? Golden Fleece is the spoils and the mental bravado that comes with being the winner, fighting the Gigantes are the Trojans themselves, rescued heroines isn’t that the call to get the princess back! “Once Heracles was purged of infanticide, he joined a superhero group called the Argonauts. Makes one think about the spiritual world described in many religions as a parallel event ruling or working in our lives. Where a kind of parallel or dual universe is happening at the same time the Gods or Argonauts are fighting Troy at the same moment the humans are fighting Troy! hmmm. In this passage I gleaned or imagined a compare and contrast idea. This is really a great story about Heracles and Hera: I am going to use it as required reading for my students.
