WarpmanAstro t1_jeba4v7 wrote
Reply to comment by BrokenNorthern in TIL the milky way was named as such because of Hera's breaskmilk...An infant Hercules tried to nurse from her, and she threw him off. Allowing some milk to splash and creating the galaxy and all its stars... by Themakia
Literally so she'd stop being mad. His birth name is actually Alcides. IIRC, his parents renamed him after they took him to a seer and discovered why he was strong enough to choke out two pythons as a baby and by whom those pythons had been sent.
grat_is_not_nice t1_jedl5dg wrote
It didn't help. Hera kept taking potshots at Heracles. She eventually made Heracles mad, and he slaughtered his wife Megara and their three sons.
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