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Hal Holbrook and Barbara Barrie as Amphitryon and Alcmene, Hercules' adoptive parents. Richard Bazley served as the supervising animator for both characters. Amanda Plummer, Carole Shelley and Paddi Edwards as Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, the three Fates who predict Hades' failed attempt to conquer Olympus.
In Greek mythology, Alcmene (/ æ l k ˈ m iː n iː / alk-MEE-nee; Attic Greek: Ἀλκμήνη, romanized: Alkmḗnē) or Alcmena (/ æ l k ˈ m iː n ə / alk-MEE-nə; Doric Greek: Ἀλκμάνα, romanized: Alkmána; Latin: Alcumena; meaning "strong in wrath" [1]) was the wife of Amphitryon, by whom she bore two children, Iphicles and Laonome.
In addition, the episode "Hercules and the Parents' Weekend" reveals that a purple Minotaur is shown to be a child of Echidna in a flashback. Scylla is a sea monster resembling a woman with an eel's tail and six eel-like heads circling her waist. Hercules fights her in "Hercules and the Big Sink" and "Hercules and the Odyssey Experience."
Iphicles was the son of Alcmene and her human husband Amphitryon, whereas Heracles was her son by Zeus.He also had a sister, Laonome, who married Euphemus or Polyphemus. ...
2,800-year-old serpent artifact is a ‘missing link’ to Hercules mythology, study says. Brendan Rascius. ... Biological mother 'flips out' when bride chooses adoptive parents to walk her down ...
The Sword in the Stone: Arthur Pendragon/"Wart" – no parents (his father is revealed to have died); [9] Sir Kay – no mother. The Jungle Book: Mowgli – no human parents; Baloo – mother was mentioned. Witch Mountain franchise: Tony and Tia Malone – no parents. The Rescuers: Penny – no parents, but gets adoptive parents by the end.
The entire ploy may have been inspired by the plot of a movie.
Side of terracotta kantharos in the form of the head of Heracles, Athens, c. 470 BCE The choice of Hercules by Annibale Carracci After killing his music tutor Linus with a lyre , he was sent to tend cattle on a mountain by his foster father Amphitryon.