Mythological References

This is a page for the real Greek myths that are either referenced or used loosely for plotlines in Young Hercules. (more info to be added)

Young Hercules (Movie Pilot)

• Jason & the Argonauts/Golden Fleece

1.10 Cyrano de Hercules

• Galatea
  • Galatea was a statue created by the sculptor Pygmalion. When the man fell in love with his creation Aphrodite took pity on him and brought the statue to life.

1.22 A Lady in Hades

• Prometheus is mentioned by Charon.
  • In punishment for giving fire to humans, the Titan Prometheus was punished by Zeus by being chained to a mountainside and have his liver torn from him daily by a giant eagle or vulture. Prometheus is eventually freed from captivity by Hercules.

• Orpheus and Eurydice
  • In the myth, Orpheus travels down to the underworld.

• Aeneas going to the Underworld to see his father
  • Jason being reunited with his father is an allusion to another story about the underworld in which a man travels to see his father to seek his advice.

1.29 Sisters

• King Midas, his golden touch and his donkey ears are mentioned by Cleo.
  • King Midas of Phrygia is featured in several Greek myths. He's best known as the recipient of "The Golden Touch", but he was also cursed with donkey ears by the God Apollo after Midas preferred the music of Pan to that of the Olympian God. Midas wore a turban ever after, but his barber knew about the ears. The barber was dying to tell someone his secret, and when it got to be too much he dug a hole in the ground and whispered the secret into it. Some reeds grew up in the same spot, and when the reeds were made into a flute, they repeated "Midas has the ears of an donkey" when they were played, and soon everyone knew his secret.