Hercules in Comics: Modern Reimagining of a Mythological Figure

Abstract

Myth-making is not an exclusive feature of the distant past: new stories and new heroes reflecting on moral and social issues are also emerging today in the context of a new, modern myth-making, sometimes adapting ancient mythological stories and reinterpreting the heroes of these stories in a modern guise. In my study, I examine the comic adaptations of the Hercules myths, most notably the Marvel series The Incredible Hercules, in which the Greek hero appears as a superhero in the modern sense.