Back On His Sh*t, Heracles (Hercules) Wants to Get Hitched, Encounters w/ Iole & Omphale (More Heracles Part 1)

Season 5 // Episode 355

This episode originally aired on February 15, 2022. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby

Heracles is at it again! We return to this "hero" after he's "purified" himself from the murder of his wife and children... So obviously he's looking to get married again! For past episodes on ol' Herc, check out this Spotify playlist. Submit your questions or comments about Atlantis or the Deconstructing Atlantis series here.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theoi.com; Pseudo-Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Ovid's Heroides; Herakles by Emma Stafford; Early Greek Myths by Timothy Gantz. Ovid's Ars Amatoria from The Offense of Love, translated by Julia Dyson Hedjuk.

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