The Triumph of Hercules complicated by her evil relative Milo, who has murdered her father the king but has tricked her into thinking it was someone else because she trusts him too much. Milo tricks Hercules into killing his friend, for which he is punished by his father Jove (Jupiter/Zeus) who takes away his enormous strength, because he has misused it. Milo is conspiring with his sorceress mother to take the throne for himself. Now only as strong as a mortal man, Hercules is overpowered when he tries to rescue the princess Ate (pronounced Ah-tay) from Milo and is then accused of being a
Homosexuality in ancient Rome supposed to be wavy, fair, and scented with perfume. The mythological type of the "delicatus" was represented by Ganymede, the Trojan youth abducted by Jove (Greek Zeus) to be his divine companion and cupbearer. In the "Satyricon", the tastelessly wealthy freedman Trimalchio says that as a child-slave he had been a "puer delicatus" servicing both the master and the mistress of the household. "Pullus" was a term for a young animal, and particularly a chick. It was an affectionate word traditionally used for a boy ("puer") who was loved by someone "in an obscene sense". The lexicographer Festus provides a