New Zealand's last four Hercs have been sold to an American firefighting company for $9 million. Not a bad trade-in price after sixty years of sterling service.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/360650708/defence-force-sells-retired-c-130h-hercules-fleet-american-firefighting-company-9m

I approve of this Pegasus behavior.

boo to the centaur Nessus in the #Disney animated film #Hercules (my least favorite fictional centaur)!

Listen here for more favorites/least favorites & what we *wish* existed: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-pop-culture-superstar/

March 11th is a feast of #Hercules. Statue of #Antinous as #Heracles at the Paris Louvre. Hercules was married several times, but also had many male lovers, including #charioteer #Iolaus. #Plutarch says male couples would journey to Iolaus' tomb to swear an oath of devotion to each other.

Otepoti - C130 Hercules flyover tomorrow, Tuesday 4th @ 11:23am.

You're bound to hear them and it's probably your last chance to see three of these winged beasts in formation.

Other South Island times & locations:

https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/hercules-retirement-flights-added/

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is symbols. There are many symbols in ancient Greek and Roman art that are there to identify a character from #mythology. A famous example is #Herakles / #Hercules who is usually identified by his club or the lionskin of the Nemean Lion that he wears after completing his first labour: slaying the Nemean Lion.
In the images below you can see examples from Roman sculpture and Greek vase painting. See alt text for detailed info.

@mythology #GreekRomanArt

Very excited to see this production of #Hercules

𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗸𝗼𝗺𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻

De musicalversie van de Disneyfilm Hercules is vanaf juni 2025 in Londen te zien. De voorstelling, gebaseerd op de film uit 1997, speelt dan op West End in het Royal Drury Lane Theater.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5479104/musical-hercules-van-disney-komt-naar-londen

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀

Het is de amateurs van Hercules niet opnieuw gelukt voor een verrassing in het bekertoernooi te zorgen. De huidige nummer 8 uit de derde divisie A verloor in de eerste ronde van het hoofdtoernooi van Eredivisionist Sparta Rotterdam, dat daarvoor wel een verlenging nodig had: 1-6. Na de reguliere speeltijd was...

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/sport/artikel/5478188/sparta-rekent-verlenging-af-met-amateurs-hercules

Cosmography archives

1934, the double supergalaxy in Hercules, by Harlow Shapley

An early evidence of the Hercules Supercluster of galaxies
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/94.9.791

Fürs Hamburger #Hercules-Musical haben sie den ganzen Text neu übersetzt und da ist nichts mehr wie im Film. Habe schon ein paar Mal "rechtliche Gründe" für diese Praktik gelesen, aber wie kann das sein, die Rechte sollten doch wie alles bei Disney liegen? Oder ist es gerade Disney, die Neuübersetzungen fordern, weil alte Texte sehr frei übersetzt wurden und sie das gewissermaßen revisionistisch ausmerzen wollen?

https://youtu.be/s-0x7iY74UE

This story of #Herakles and a #centaur is now banned by #Patreon's new rules.

But thankfully you can read it on my website if you like:

https://eroticmythology.com/flashfill-friday-herakles-and-the-cyprian-centaur/

@smutstodon @mythology
#erotica #GreekMythology #mythology #Heracles #Hercules