0527NOTHeraclesInfant

0527NOTHeraclesInfant_Disney

Hes. Sh. 47-480
HH 15

Anthony DeRosa, lead animator for Zeus and Hera, under direction of Ron Clements and John Musker, Hercules (Disney Enterprises, 1997).

Image at right from S. Rebello, The Art of Hercules: the chaos of creation (Hyperion: New York, 1997), 44: "Zeus, Hera, and Baby Hercules. Production Still."

Zeus and Hera adoring baby Hercules, all glowing with divine light in a heartwarming animated scene

Disney's Hercules introduces a key change into the Heracles birth myth. Here the strapping infant is born into the monogamous fidelity of divine parentage, Zeus and Hera. It is Hades' opposition that challenges and shapes the scion of Zeus into a being who can save mankind.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.