His love life with the boys is no less active. Mosaic from a fountain from Neronian times (ruled 54 to 68 C.E.), now located in the Palazzo Massimo, Rome.
#HERCULES HADES FANART CODE#
Depictions of Antaeus with his legs in the air were also found in many gay men's homes in the last century as a sort of visual code to visitors that they belonged to "the club."Ībove: Hercules and Iolaos after the capture of the Erymanthian boar. The struggle between Antaeus and Hercules is a favorite subject in ancient and Renaissance sculpture and painting. Holding Antaeus aloft, Hercules crushed him in a bear hug. Upon finding that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground, Hercules discovered the secret of his power. He was superhumanly strong as long as he kept his feet on the ground, but once lifted into the air he became as vulnerable as other men.Īntaeus had defeated most of his opponents until it came to his fight with Hercules (who was on his way to the Garden of Hesperides for his 11th Labor). He would kill them and then use their skulls to build a temple to his father, Poseidon. Legend has it that Antaeus would challenge all passers-by to wrestle.
#HERCULES HADES FANART PROFESSIONAL#
We see this in the modern-day equivalent of the gods: professional athletes. But heroes play fast and loose with the rules. Suffice it to say he murdered his first three sons while in a very bad mood. We would say 'roid rage now, but we doubt there was an ancient Greek version of Biogenesis. If you study the Hercules myth you will find that both the Greeks (Heracles) and Romans (Hercules) had very similar but slightly varying tales of his parentage and love life, but in both he is a demigod, a child of one god and one human. He went on to other legendary phallic battles: His slaying of the Hydra (nine heads!) was one of the 12 Labors of Hercules.
Is a serpent ever just a serpent? Seems fitting that Hercules was wrestling snakes when he was just an infant. Left: Mid-century gay artist George Quaintance certainly knew that sometimes a Hydra is more than a Hydra.īattles with serpents, snakes, and other phallic forms play freely in the subconcious mind. So now we know that constellations of stars are random and unplanned, and the natural chaotic sexuality of the universe has been whitewashed by the current religious establishment. Science explained the cold hard facts of the physical world, and Christianity had big issues with the freewheeling sex lives of the gods and demigods. Then two things happened that kind of ruined it for mythology: science and Christianity. And that's the way it should happen, because with each retelling and each revision (that sticks) it becomes closer and closer to a mythic truth that explains nature, psychology, and sexuality, among many other things. Basically, it's gossip created by the unconscious minds of the ancients, formed into fables, then told and and retold until it barely resembles the original source material. Above: Roman sarcophagus depicting the several of the Labors of Hercules - the defeat of the Cretan Bull and Horses of Diomedes.
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