Percy Jackson taught me a lot about Greek and Roman mythology honestly. The author does his work and manages to jam in a lot of historical facts while also making an entertaining story
Aeneas appears in the Iliad. Virgil then appropriated the character to create a "myth" about the origin of the romans...although in his day it was just a story, not a myth.
Correct. Although greeks at some point mistook them to the be the same. This is just what I read on Wikipedia. I always thought they were different, Cronos being the Titan and father of Zeus.
He was supposed to do ten but Eurystheus discounted two of them. The Augean Stables because he received payment, and the Lernaean Hydra because Ioalus helped him by burning off its necks as Heracles cut them off.
I think that Psyche could also be the girl who opens a box of trouble because she does a task by retrieving beauty potion/cream whatever and it's full of Stygian sleep and not of beauty stuff and she opens it
Because Chronos, the personification of time, was originally a completely separate figure from Kronos, the leader of the Titans and Zeus' father. Don't feel bad; they've been confused and conflated for literally thousands of years because of their similar names.
I would like to have seen more females such as Artemis, Hecate, any of the Muses, Hestia, Nike, Aphrodite, Athena, etc. and less about Troy and the Trojan War. That was always my least favorite part of Greek mythology but I realize that's not the case for everyone.
actually, i think Herakles is also acceptable as a transcription from the greek (the sound is the same)