How long did hercules live

Today's theory is about how long did Hercules live with Phil. I have evidence so let's go the distance and look at the theory. I thought he just was there like 5 weeks or something but he goes from teenager to adult. For this I believe Hercules was 15 as the teenager one. Now let's analyze how he looks as an adult.

On the Disney wiki about him he is an adult at this point but he looks so young so I believe he is between the ages of The infant Hercules was unusually strong and fearless, however, and he strangled the snakes before they could strangle him. But Hera kept up her dirty tricks. When her stepson was a young adult, she cast a kind of spell on him that drove him temporarily insane and caused him to murder his beloved wife and their two children. Once Hercules completed every one of the labors, Apollo declared, he would be absolved of his guilt and achieve immortality.

The Nemean Lion First, Apollo sent Hercules to the hills of Nemea to kill a lion that was terrorizing the people of the region. Some storytellers say that Zeus had fathered this magical beast as well. Hercules trapped the lion in its cave and strangled it. The Lernaean Hydra Second, Hercules traveled to the city of Lerna to slay the nine-headed Hydra—a poisonous, snake-like creature who lived underwater, guarding the entrance to the Underworld.

For this task, Hercules had the help of his nephew Iolaus. This way, the pair kept the heads from growing back. The Golden HindNext, Hercules set off to capture the sacred pet of the goddess Diana: a red deer, or hind, with golden antlers and bronze hooves. Eurystheus had chosen this task for his rival because he believed that Diana would kill anyone she caught trying to steal her pet; however, once Hercules explained his situation to the goddess, she allowed him to go on his way without punishment.

The Erymanthean Boar Fourth, Hercules used a giant net to snare the terrifying, man-eating wild boar of Mount Erymanthus. However, Hercules completed the job easily, flooding the barn by diverting two nearby rivers.

Hercules used these tools to frighten the birds away. Hercules drove the bull back to Eurystheus, who released it into the streets of Marathon. He brought them to Eurystheus, who dedicated the horses to Hera and set them free. Modern archaeology has been able to confirm many of the estimated dates proposed by these ancient writers. In the case of Hercules , ties to Troy help to narrow down the window of time in which he could have been born. While Hercules may not have been a historical Bronze Age figure, modern science has shown that the Greek estimation of his age fits the mythology better than ever thought possible!

The Greeks also believed that the events of their myths were not very far removed from their own time. Rulers in the Greco-Roman world still claimed direct ancestry from the gods and members of the Argive genealogy, and believed their famous lineage went back only a few generations. The early poet Homer believed when he wrote the Iliad and Odyssey that he was describing events that happened only a few hundred years before his own time.

Homer lived in the 8th century BC and the events of the Trojan War were thought to have taken place about four hundred years earlier. This is important in estimating the lifetime of Hercules because Homer includes the hero in the legend. Before the events of the Iliad , Troy had also been sacked by Hercules.

The remaining son, Podarces, saved his own life by offering Hercules a gift. Podarces was later renamed Priam and was the king of Troy during the Trojan War.

Linking royal genealogies of his own time, historical events, and descriptions in older texts, Herodotus settled on a date of roughly BC for the start of the Trojan War. Later writers such as Apollodorus of Athens expanded on the work of Herodotus. Their chronology puts the Trojan War at about BC, the installation of Priam as king about forty years before, and the birth of Hercules roughly forty years prior to that.

The ancient historians believed that Hercules was born around BC. Remarkably, modern archaeology and science have managed to corroborate some parts of their chronology. Archaeologists have long been fascinated with the precision of Greek historians. The god Apollo. As Phoebus, he was the sun god, and every day he drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. He was the god of healing and music. Finally, Apollo was a god of prophecy: the Greeks believed that Apollo knew what would happen in the future, and that he could advise people how to act.

Hercules hurried to the temple where Apollo gave such advice. It was in the town of Delphi and was called the Delphic oracle. Apollo said that in order to purify himself for the spilling of his family's blood, he had to perform 10 heroic labors this number would soon be increased to Delphi, view looking SE across the Temple of Apollo's terrace toward the valley below.

The sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi was built on a very steep hillside. Photograph by Pamela Russell Hercules got even more bad news. Apollo declared that he had to go to the city of Tiryns. Eurystheus had a reputation for being mean, and Hercules knew that the king would give him a tough time.

The hero had to serve Eurystheus for twelve years while he performed the Labors. There was some good news, though. When the tasks were completed, Apollo said, Hercules would become immortal. Unlike other men, instead of dying and going to the Underworld of Hades, he would become a god. Aerial view of the fortress-palace at Tiryns.

The citadel's impressively thick fortress walls have stood for over thirty centuries. Photograph by Raymond V. Schoder, S.