Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

* Hera was a near-constant foe for Hercules in several made for TV movies and later the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

* Nemesis ( Xena and Hercules ), a recurring character in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

In addition to film, Raimi has worked in television, producing such series as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin off Xena: Warrior Princess, both featuring his younger brother Ted Raimi and long-time friend Bruce Campbell, American Gothic, Cleopatra 2525, M. A. N. T. I. S., 13: Fear Is Real, Young Hercules, and Jack of All Trades.

Both Ted and Bruce have appeared in all three Evil Dead and Spider-Man movies, as well as Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which Sam produced.

Theodore " Ted "/" Half Ted " Raimi ( born December 14, 1963 ) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O ' Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess / Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ; the saga began with three episodes in Hercules where Xena was a recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance.

In August 1997 Hercules and Xena: The Battle For Mount Olympus a DTV animated movie was released, featuring the voices of a number of actors from both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

* Simutronics Corporation created an MMORPG under license called Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes, based on both Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

A version of Atalanta appears in three episodes of the television series Hercules: the Legendary Journeys: " Ares ", " Let the Games Begin " and " If I Had a Hammer ", played by Corey Everson.

In 1994, he played Zeus in the five TV movies that led to the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States.

Kevin Tod Smith ( 16 March 1963 – 15 February 2002 ) was a New Zealand actor best known for playing the Greek god of war, Ares, in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and in its two spin-offs – Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.

His fellow Hercules: The Legendary Journeys cast member, low-budget-movie actor and Pacific Renaissance Pictures partner Bruce Campbell, was also one of the contenders for the role of the legendary superhero.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

Campbell played Hercules / Xena series producer Tapert in two episodes of Hercules set in the present.

He directed a number of episodes of Hercules and Xena, including the Hercules series finale.

A series of nineteen Italian Hercules movies were made in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The series also features Jason, Hercules, and other heroes and gods and goddesses of Greek mythology, though the emphasis is mainly on humour.

This Three Stooges lineup went on to make a series of popular full-length films from 1959 to 1965, most notably Have Rocket, Will Travel, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules and The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze.

After the classic Hercules ( 1958 ) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film Terrore dei Barbari ( Terror of the Barbarians ) was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in the United States, ( after Joseph E. Levine claimed the sole right to the name of Hercules ); the film was so successful at the box office, it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four more films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath, although the films were not really related to each other.

As Hercules won the contest, the keeper procured the services of Acca Larentia for the night and provided a fine supper.

Loki in the disguise of Gyros: God of Pitas tricks Zeus into holding a contest between Thor and Hercules.

The two were on opposite teams at Survivor Series 1988 where DiBiase eliminated his Hercules from the contest but Hercules distracted Dibiase long enough to be eliminated by WWF World Champion Randy Savage moments later.

At the inaugural Survivor Series, Davis participated in the opening contest, joining The Honky Tonk Man, Hercules, Ron Bass and Harley Race, facing Randy Savage, Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat, Brutus Beefcake and Jim Duggan.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

The main heavy transport aircraft is the Lockheed C-130H Hercules and it will not change soon.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The latter is an important mission to the Falkland Islands government as the Hercules verifies that all fishing vessels are licensed ; at £ 1, 000 per licence per season this is an extremely lucrative source of income.

Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek demigod Heracles, who was the son of Zeus ( Roman equivalent Jupiter ) and the mortal Alcmene.

In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.

In later Western art and literature and in popular culture, Hercules is more commonly used than Heracles as the name of the hero.

Hercules is known for his many adventures, which took him to the far reaches of the Greco-Roman world.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

Aside from his superhuman powers, Iceman is also a fair hand-to-hand combatant, and received combat training at Xavier's School as well as coaching from the Black Widow and Hercules while serving with the Champions of Los Angeles.

Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.

He is shown to have been a student of Philoctetes and takes his advice to let Hercules travel with him.

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

The modern port is still sometimes called the " Port of Hercules ".

: dictus autem Monoecus vel quod pulsis omnibus illic solus habitavit (" either because Hercules drove off everyone else and lived there alone "), vel quod in eius templo numquam aliquis deorum simul colitur (" or because in his temple no other of the gods is worshipped at the same time ").

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

The two most featured pantheons are the Asgardians ( of whom Thor is a member ) and the Olympians ( of whom Hercules is a member ).

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.