Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)
    Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)
    Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)
    Ebook32 pages30 minutes

    Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)

    By Pierce Nahigyan

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    In this collection of nine very short stories, both popular and obscure Greek myths are retold with an often humorous twist. Included in this volume:

    1) Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk - Hercules invites himself over to the palace of King Admetus, unaware that the King is mourning his wife. A drunken Hercules attempts to right this grievous wrong.
    2) The Talents of Phidias - A goddess is shocked to discover how a sculptor has used his god-given gifts.
    3) The Song of Achilles - After the sack of Troy, only men mourned Achilles.
    4) Cora, Who Loved Dionysus - Poor Cora. All she wanted was a fun boyfriend. Unfortunately, she ended up with a god.
    5) The Dogs of Actaeon - These dogs were taught to hunt...
    6) The Tale of Seven Against Thebes - How Thebes was brought low, and how Justice pursued its attackers across a generation.
    7) Tuesdays With Charon - Just another day in Hades.
    8) Aeacus - The famed builder of Troy's south wall was not actually a builder by trade...
    9) What Adonis Told the Boar - The true story of Adonis' scandalous birth and short, unhappy life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPierce Nahigyan
    Release dateMar 6, 2016
    ISBN9781310657986
    Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)
    Author

    Pierce Nahigyan

    Pierce Nahigyan is a freelance writer, editor and cartoonist. He grew up in New England and then the South, was educated in Chicago, and sort of fell into Los Angeles. Along the way he worked as a busboy, a bartender, a Sunday school teacher, toymaker, canvasser, ship’s cook, voice actor, tour guide, freelance journalist and failed novelist. A graduate of Northwestern University, Pierce holds a B.A. in Sociology and History. He lives in southern California with his groovy wife and their dog, Nymeria.

    Read more from Pierce Nahigyan

    Related to Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)

    Related ebooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Ten Essential Books Inspired by Greek Mythology

      May 13, 2021

      I think this is why there is so much enthusiasm for mythological retellings: they let us escape to another world, but they ask questions that still matter to us today. The post Ten Essential Books Inspired by Greek Mythology appeared first on The Mil

      4 min read

    • Article

      Happily Ever After

      Jul 11, 2022

      Happily Ever After
      7 min read

    • Article

      International Books

      Sep 8, 2019

      Desperate to feel safe after a violent assault, a young author leaves London to teach at a university in the country. But as she navigates through student dramas and a demanding job, she realises her sense of safety is an illusion. A feeling of const

      5 min read

    • Article

      5 New Fantasy Novels Invigorate Old Tropes

      May 18, 2023

      Spell books, dragons, mermaids, fairies and a magic circus all take on new life in the pages of these five enchanting tales hitting shelves in May and June.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mark Haddon’s Latest Curious Incident Sails the High Seas

      Jul 18, 2019

      Sex and attraction feature prominently throughout, as do birth and death, terror and violence—the stuff of life that hasn’t changed one bit over the eons. The post Mark Haddon’s Latest Curious Incident Sails the High Seas appeared first on The Millio

      5 min read

    • Article

      We Should All Be Reading Ancient Poetry Right Now

      Aug 2, 2018

      In 1942, the classicist Edith Hamilton acknowledged the “dark spots” which encroach upon the worlds of Greek myth. Reading ancient poetry today makes you realize how those dark spots have grown. They may be sinister, but like black holes, they suck y

      3 min read

    • Article

      Legendary

      May 2, 2021

      Legendary
      5 min read

    • Article

      Remastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys

      May 4, 2017

      When Ruthanna Emrys first read H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," her sympathies were squarely with the monsters — and that sympathy was the seed of her new book, Winter Tide.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Grueling, Painful, Beautiful Fiction of László Krasznahorkai

      Aug 8, 2017

      To misread Krasznahorkai as merely, or primarily, a political writer is to risk squandering the profoundly personal nature of his stories. More tragically, it is to foist a kind of sloppy activist, and determinately secular métier onto one of contemp

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Devil Strides Our Countryside

      Jan 26, 2023

      TO SEND REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT THE BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR AT DVBARRETT@FORTEANTIMES.COM Jeremy Harte Reaktion Books 2022 Hb, 296pp, £15.99, ISBN 9781789146509 One of the most beloved of Doctor Who stories has long been 1971’s “The Daemons”. Over the cou

      15 min read

    • Article

      From Fact To Fiction

      Aug 5, 2021

      Claire Heywood on her new retelling of the Trojan War myth What inspired you to tell a story based in the world of Greek myth? I have loved myths since I was a child, but as I grew older and came to study them at university I realised that the women

      1 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reading Guide

      May 16, 2022

      Summer Reading Guide
      15 min read

    • Article

      'Dunbar' Is A Moving, Brutal And Apt Update Of 'King Lear'

      Oct 5, 2017

      For centuries, Shakespeare's tragedy was too painful for audiences; it was performed with an altered happy ending. But Edward St. Aubyn has never flinched at inflicting pain on his readers.

      4 min read

    • Article

      January Fiction

      Dec 12, 2023

      MAIDEN, MOTHER, CRONE is a collation of three previously published novellas with three new short stories, all based on The Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk tales dating as far back as the 13th century. The stories have everyth

      2 min read

    • Article

      Story Time

      Sep 9, 2020

      Child psychologist Dr Julia Cates takes her seat at the courthouse, a defendant in the trial of a child killer, one of her patients for three years. She has been dodging the press, who along with the parents of the dead children, want to know why she

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Witches Of Literature

      May 30, 2023

      Tor Books T. KINGFISHER challenges the idea of the “wicked witch” through the gravewitch in her subversive fairy tale Nettle & Bone. The nameless dust-wife—part witch, part gravedigger—is all too willing to help the novel’s heroine on her quest to ki

      2 min read

    • Article

      Hero and Heroine

      Jun 11, 2019

      Hero and Heroine
      4 min read

    • Article

      Wonderful Call Of The Wild

      Nov 26, 2020

      Wonderful Call Of The Wild
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Wisdom Of Shakespeare

      Apr 15, 2021

      “... the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was end is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” These words

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths)

    4/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk (9 Cracked Retellings of Classic Greek Myths) - Pierce Nahigyan

      Hercules Was a Dangerous Drunk

      © Copyright 2016, Pierce Nahigyan, All Rights Reserved

      NOTICE: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.

      * * *

      Introduction

      For generations, Greek mythology has remained a popular fixture in Western literature. This is not surprising. The stories of the Greek gods and heroes compose the backbone of that very literature, offering adventures, romances, comedies and, inevitably, tragedies, that transcend eras and ethnicities. They provide hope, on occasion, and often provide warnings - against pride, against doubt, against weakness, against ignorance. They are also - and this aspect tends to be downplayed in modern media, perhaps so as not to distract from the grandeur of these tales - funny.

      For readers familiar only with the classic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, I'm sure that sounds like balderdash. Oedipus Rex and Medea are not comedic works, and too often they are held up as the prime examples of what the Greeks viewed as entertainment. They are monumental works of imagination, to be sure, but relegating Greek theatre to tragedy alone does that ancient civilization a disservice. In part, this is by necessity. Too few Greek plays have come down to us intact over the centuries, and there are reasons why these works survive today. But lofty as

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1