Who's cassandra. At first I thought it was young Megara but when i read it was Cassandra I got confused. Who is Cassandra anyway? Where's young Megara?
Also, in the movie, does hercules and megara stay together. (if they did),why?
I read Megara married 'Heracles'.
Well, in the TV series, Hercules doesn't know Meg yet. But for some reason, in The Aetolian Amphora they almost fall in love with each other. Cassandra is one of Herc's best friends--- No love interest whatsoever.
And, yes. They stay together in the movie. Hercules goes up to Mount Olympus and Zeus tells him he can come home because he risked his life for Meg. Then Herc says he wants to stay on earth because (and I quote) "A life without Meg, even an immortal life would be... empty. I.. I wish to stay on earth with her. I finally know where I belong." (Unquote) and then Zeus takes away the godhood, and Herc and Meg live happily ever after. Not that it would happen in real life that way.
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i'm not sure about the movie, but in the greek myth cassandra is a seer who is doomed to have no one believe her prophecies until it's too late. i think she gets murdered by clytemnestra, along with agamemnon.
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Yeah, you're right, superfroggish1, I just recently studied that part of Greek history in one of my classes.
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in the movie, they use all of the greek versions of the gods. Poseidon not Neptune, Ares not Mars, etc. This is true except for Hercules. In Greek myth Hercules is called Heracles (hair-a-cleese), but Disney thought the Roman version, Hercules, sounded better. So, when you heard Megara married Heracles, you're just hearing the Greek name for Hercules.
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Yeah, in one ep. Herc and Meg meet as teenagers and then, thanks to Herc's cousins they both lose their memory of each other.
And the pilot of the show started with grown-up Meg and Herc and she finds his high school yearbook and so he starts telling her stories of his hay-day that is the basis of the show
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra a mortal whom the god Apollo falls in love with. He gives her the power of seeing into the future, and in return she must marry him, but she doesn't. So Apollo curses her so that nobody will believe her when she sees into the future.
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Cassandra wasn't just any mortal, though. She was a princess of Troy. She prophesised the fall of Troy, but because of her curse, no one believed her. I think qall bar one of her prophesies were doom and gloom. The nice one was that her cousin Aeneas would survive the Trojan war and go on to found Rome. (According to Virgil's Aenead, I think)
share"Hercules And The Yearbook" was NOT the pilot of the show. It's an episode made near to the end of the series run for the main purpose of being able to use it as a bookend for a few episodes to package together for the "Zero To Hero" VHS release.
shareOpps, I thought it was the pilot, I just assumed because it was very pilot-esque.
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I think you're confusing "Disney" with actual mythology. :)
Everything everyone else has said is correct.
Heracles is the Greek Hercules. (Technically Hercules is the Roman Heracles) Disney chose to spell and say it the Roman way because "Hercules" probably because it sounds "better". Heracles rolls off the tongue while Hercules punches out at each syllable making it sound more powerful.
In mythology Heracles was married to Megara, but she was his FIRST wife. (The one he killed when Hera put him under a crazy spell, thus making him lose his immortality and having to go on all his quests to regain it.)
Young Hercules is just a little show Disney did based off of the movie because it was popular enough and they thought they could milk it a bit*. Cassandra is another mythology based character they brought in because they needed a "main" female character and since Megara and Hercules did not actually meet until Herc was an adult... they had to come up with somebody.
Basically, the point is that you shouldn't take too much stock into what you see on the show (or movie for that matter). They're cute and entertaining, but definitely not something you'd want to write a history paper on. Not saying you would, just clarifying that Disney mythology is not any sort of "real" mythology.
(*They did the same thing with The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, and Emperor's New Groove. They usually only last for one season, maybe two, because while cute, they aren't all that great. Admittedly, I LOVED the Aladdin series when I was younger. And Young Hercules was definitely a favorite as well.)
Disney's series was NOT titled "Young Hercules", THAT was the 1/2 hour live-action syndicated series based on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys & Xena: Warrior Princess. Disney's series was simply titled "Disney's Hercules"
shareThis show is not connected to the movie. It isn't canon. If you look at the events in the movie and show you will realise they don't mesh.
The movie doesn't mesh with itself... I mean the Lord fo the Dead wsnt away, after 18 or so years, that Herculese was not dead? And if Zeus can restore or remove godhood, wy did he leave Herculese off Olympus to be rased by Farmers?
The movie doesn't mesh with itself...