Heracles truth versus the dramatic inclusion of the popularized idea that Heracles was a murderer.

Heracles truth versus the dramatic inclusion of the popularized idea that Heracles was a murderer.
by valpetridis @ 2008-05-25 - 16:12:25
Heracles truth versus the dramatic inclusion of the popularized idea that Heracles was a murderer.
The second book seems to have developed into a manual to assist people unraveled the misconceptions indicated in the first text and helps them unify the various religious ideas into universal doctrines.
The popular story of Heracles claimed to be the traditional story of Heracles (in Latin Hercules) is that he married King Creon’s daughter Megara who bore him three sons: Therimachus, Deicoon and Creontiades. Some later Greek poets and writers claimed that Heracles killed his wife and sons in a fit of rage and madness inflicted on him by Hera. However in much older tales Heracles went into an e but both his wife Magara and three sons fled. Megara married again. Heracles felt so sorry that he was unable to control his anger and lost his family due to his rage that he went to the oracle of Delphi to find strength and repentance for his act of rage. Delphi told him that the strength, control and repentance he sought could be achieved by serving his cosine c Eurystheus, king of Tiryns and Mycenae. King Eurysium was to devise ten tasks for Heracles to achieve and later they became known as twelve tasks. The \oracle knew that Hercules would achieve everything he desired including become famous by completing these tasks.
Thus Heracles story became popular with the poetic and dramatic inclusion of a murder that was not part of the original history of the great peacemaker and hero who had the divine gift of being more powerful that many men put together, that he was more powerful than anyone. In Greek the word for strength is the word for power. The idea that Hercules sought the control and redemption to his madness was not as dramatically popular than the truth that Hercules did not murder anyone. It was more his anguish over losing control and his desire to appease the gods for that punishment of rage that sent him to the oracle and to accomplish the tasks he became so famous for.