Heroes: Volume II of Mythos

ENVOI fn1 See the story of Heracles (here, here and here).

THE OFFSPRING OF ECHIDNA AND TYPHON fn1 But not by Odysseus on a later occasion.

THE RAGES OF HERACLES fn1 The Benoit case has resulted in a much stricter regime of testing and a zero-tolerance of drug taking in the WWE, I am told. fn2 Perhaps comic book fans will also want to draw a comparison with Bruce Banner, the Incredible Hulk.

AFTERWORD fn1 And dreams, ‘private myths’.

LIST OF CHARACTERS fn1 Hades spent all of his time in the underworld, so technically he is often not regarded as one of the twelve Olympians. fn2 But not by Odysseus on a later occasion. fn3 In some but not all versions of Heracles’ Eleventh Labour. fn4 But not by Odysseus on a later occasion. fn5 It was Zeus’s punishment for this appalling crime that immortalized Tantalus’s name. See the first volume of Mythos (page 263). fn6 See the first volume of Mythos (page 224).