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Conversations: When the Emperors Ruled Greece, the Roman Period w/ Dan Stewart

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Challenges of Heracles

Heracles has just always fascinated me because he seems to be from everywhere it feels like everyone wants to claim him so he just kind of gets to be this like all of Greece hero versus yeah Theseus being so specifically tied to Athens. I mean other than the Minotaur I think kind of is on the Heracles level but it's always fascinating to me that most of what Theseus does is kill humans whereas Heracles gets to kill these like terrifying monstrosities and then Heracles is like well this guy was like torturing people along a road and so I killed him. It's a kind of an interesting thing to think with in terms of the challenges that certainly if we think it would go

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