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Hera hates Heracles because he is a living reminder of her husband's infidelity. Because of this she is cruel to him. She could bring about Herakles' death but instead she wants him to suffer. She sends Madness to drive Heracles to murder his wife and progeny.
Determined to make him suffer, Hera once again interfered in Hercules's life. Hera used her power to get inside Hercules's head. He fell into madness and went insane with rage. Under Hera's dark influence, he gruesomely murdered his beloved wife and children.
Megara Marries Hercules
Megara and Hercules are husband and wife and have three sons, Therimachus, Diecoon, and Creontiades. They were living happily together in Thebes until King Creon was killed.
Hercules was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the mortal woman Alcmene. Zeus, who was always chasing one woman or another, took on the form of Alcmene's husband, Amphitryon, and visited Alcmene one night in her bed, and so Hercules was born a demi-god with incredible strength and stamina.
During the course of his life, Heracles married four times.
Heracles (more well known by his Roman name Hercules) is the mythical son of Zeus and Alcmene - although considered a hero in almost all the ancient myths, Hercules was actually a violent and brutal individual even by the standards of ancient Greece.
His reputation as a hunky lover probably stems from the many myths about these escapades, including his sleeping with fifty girls in one night. Here is a brief overview of some of the more significant mythological women that he has been involved with. Herakles is described as seducing Auge, a priestess of Athena.
Among his lovers were said to be the young heroes Admetos, Iphitos, Euphemos, Elacatas, and Abderus, son of Hermes, whose love for Hercules cost him his life (see above).
Megara. After defeating the Minyans at Orchomenos, King Creon offered his eldest daughter, Megara, to Hercules as a bride in reward for his prowess in battle. Together, Hercules and Megara had anywhere between three and eight children.
Hera was the Greek goddess of marriage. Her responsibility of marriage made Zeus's infidelity so hurtful. Zeus was unfaithful to Hera many times. During one of Zeus's affairs, he impregnated a mortal woman named Alcmene.
As the story goes, Zeus had an affair with a mortal woman. From that union, Hercules was born. Because Hercules was half mortal, Zeus was concerned this son have more powers. He thought his goddess wife Hera could breastfeed Hercules along with their children so that Hercules could gain some powers through breast milk.
Hercules is Hated by Hera
Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage, was married to Zeus when he had an extramarital affair with the mortal woman Alcmene. Because Hercules was born from the affair, Hera was constantly reminded of Zeus's infidelity, and she hated Hercules for it.
Hercules did try to smooth things over with the angry queen of the gods; when he noticed that she had not opposed him during his fight against Hippocoon, he sacrificed goats to her, in thanks. When Hercules died, Hera's anger finally cooled, and after the hero ascended to Olympus, he married Hera's daughter, Hebe.
As a result of their affair, Megara and Hercules had an astonishing eight children. But jealous Hera played another horrible trick on Hercules to prevent him from finding future happiness, cursing him with an uncontrollable madness that pushed him to murder them all!
Hercules then asked for help from the gods to end his life, and he received it. The Greek god Zeus sent lightning to consume Hercules' mortal body and took him to live with the gods on Mount Olympus.
When Heracles was assigned to kill a lion (not to be confused with the Nemean Lion), Thespius offered his fifty daughters as a prize. The hunt for the lion lasted fifty days, and during each night of the hunt Heracles slept with each of the fifty daughters, who in turn each gave birth to one son.
When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera sent a fit of madness to Hercules that put him into so great a rage, he murdered Megara and the children.
Regardless, Hercules and Iphicles are twins, and it seems that Hercules was always a little more well-known because of the powers he obtained from Zeus, unlike Iphicles, who was a demigod.
Written by William Brough, with music composed and arranged by Wallerstein, the piece was directed by Charles Matthews. Hercules was played en travesti by Charlotte Saunders (possibly Charlotte Cushman Saunders), with a Miss Herbert as Omphale.
Deianira, Hercules' second wife. Hercules married a second wife, Deianira. He won her hand in marriage by wrestling with the river-god Acheloos, who took the form of a centaur. During the fight, Hercules broke off one of Acheloos' horns.
Of all the sons Zeus had fathered on other women, Hera hated Heracles most of all, for the seed of Zeus flowed in his veins most copiously. But Zeus protected Heracles and he grew into the strongest of men and the greatest of all Greek heroes. So Hera devised another plan.
Hercules' weakness was his temper and lack of intelligence. He was notorious for getting himself into trouble because of his temper.
Hercules's Poison and Bleed resistance makes Willpower a great way to heal when suffering from a Bleed or Poison Debuff.
Zeus had been eyeing Alcmene for a while due to her beauty and her wisdom. When he came to her disguised as Amphytryon, he slept with her, and she conceived Hercules; half-god, half-mortal.