This chapter tackles the way the film handles the stories of Hercules and creates another myth via the medium of animation, a topic which has not been considered so far.

Like the French comic book series Astérix, it adapts classical texts, albeit with slight differences. Caesar challenges the Gauls to perform twelve difficult tasks (a la Hercules) to prove that they are in fact Gods. Casting Asterix as a Hercules surrogate, the film is to this day one of the most interesting attempts in modern popular culture to deconstruct and reconstruct the myth of Hercules. Following their success, Goscinny and Uderzo created in 1976 the animated film Les Douze Travaux d’Astérix ( The Twelve Tasks of Asterix), the only movie to be based on an original screenplay that was not preceded by a comic book in the series. The mythographers, as it were, the author René Goscinny and the artist Albert Uderzo, succeeded in turning harsh history into a popular illustrated tale, creating an image more powerful than any historical account. Asterix the Gaul, Spain, Britain, Cleopatra, Goths, Gladiator, Legionary, Switzerland.

A mind-numbing multi-storey building founded on bureaucracy and staffed by clinically unhelpful people wh. The popular French comic strip Astérix is a modern day myth, which provides the readers with an imaginary world of heroes, living in the timeless year of 50 bc, in a fantasy land which is supposed to be Roman Gaul. Find Permit A 38 in 'The Place That Sends You Mad'.

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