Ren'Py Ovidius - Blood for Love [Act I] [Narrator Studios]

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As a pretty minor gripe, "That filthy dog! I knew since he was a child that he was a son of Hades!". First of all, in Rome, it would be Pluto. Second, why is Hades always depicted as untrustworthy. He may have been one of the nicest and most genial of the Greek gods. He drew the short straw and got the Underworld, but he was surprisingly chill about the whole thing. Honestly, you'd be better off dealing with Hades than Poseidon or Zeus (excepting the fact that dealing with Hades probably meant that you were dead).
 
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This is a dig at modern media: Tyrannical regimes, real or imaginary, like Trump State, Roman Empire, Persian Empire ... you name it empire always draw the shortest of sticks when it comes to authenticity—in short, Empires get Mocked and Ridiculed. Look at the latest stinkers, like Napoleon and Gladiator II for revisionist mockery depictions of people and events from history.
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On a different note, that was a diss, so it makes sense you would use a foreign god to mock or anger, as opposed to gods you actually believe in - it makes sense a noble would not want to anger a Roman god, but some other foreign god.

Last but not least, Romans had Greek teachers, and they taught Greek customs, history, and ways of the world, possibly even religion, so someone adopting the Greek names and lore into their personality is very much on course with the best education one could get in Ancient Rome.
"That filthy dog! I knew since he was a child that he was a son of Hades!". First of all, in Rome, it would be Pluto. Second, why is Hades always depicted as untrustworthy. He may have been one of the nicest and most genial of the Greek gods. He drew the short straw and got the Underworld, but he was surprisingly chill about the whole thing. Honestly, you'd be better off dealing with Hades than Poseidon or Zeus (excepting the fact that dealing with Hades probably meant that you were dead).
Disney Hercules had Hades, Dwaine Johnson Hercules has Hades, God of War had Hades, Assassin creed Oddisey had Hades:
- everybody in modern media chose Greek over Roman for the whole story.
Rome gets the Diss.
 
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This is a dig at modern media: Tyrannical regimes, real or imaginary, like Trump State, Roman Empire, Persian Empire ... you name it empire always draw the shortest of sticks when it comes to authenticity—in short, Empires get Mocked and Ridiculed. Look at the latest stinkers, like Napoleon and Gladiator II for revisionist mockery depictions of people and events from history.
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On a different note, that was a diss, so it makes sense you would use a foreign god to mock or anger, as opposed to gods you actually believe in - it makes sense a noble would not want to anger a Roman god, but some other foreign god.

Last but not least, Romans had Greek teachers, and they taught Greek customs, history, and ways of the world, possibly even religion, so someone adopting the Greek names and lore into their personality is very much on course with the best education one could get in Ancient Rome.

Disney Hercules had Hades, Dwaine Johnson Hercules has Hades, God of War had Hades, Assassin creed Oddisey had Hades:
- everybody in modern media chose Greek over Roman for the whole story.
Rome gets the Diss.

For most depictions of Hercules, it's really a matter of Hercules having the wrong name. The stories they are telling are typically the Greek version of the myth so his name should be Heracles. All of the other characters are typically correctly named for the setting.