It is prolly a result of my misspent yoof, when I took a classics course at University. LOL. The main thesis of that course was that Ancient Greek myths are a reflection of the human condition, and can be applied thus to current affairs. The course material was applied to the modern Romance Novel, so concentrated on love affairs between the gods and Mortals, but Hercules did come up, and of course there were the Hercules cartoons B&W re-runs (on Arab TV, of all places) that were rehashed into others (e.g. He-man of the eighties) that we as kids were almost forced to watch ...

Thanks for the comment BTW.