Prometheus Academy
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Prometheus Academy is a fictional high school from the Disney animated television series Hercules. Though set in Ancient Greece (specifically Athens), the Academy shares many traits with modern educational institutions. It is coeducational, with both male and female students, and teaches such diverse subjects as history and "Home Grecanomics".
Prometheus Academy is the school that the teenaged Hercules attends while training with Philoctetes to become a hero in the Disney movie Hercules. Many of the other students at the Academy are based off characters from mythology.
The Academy was named after Prometheus, the Titan who brought fire (the metaphorical "light of reason") to mankind, and was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver pecked out by an eagle every day for all time. A bronze statue of Prometheus being administered his punishment is the central point of the Academy's courtyard.
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[edit] List of Students
- Hercules
- Adonis
- Helen of Troy
- Anerexite
- Icarus
- Cassandra
- Electra
- Ajax
- Tempest, the Amazon daughter of Hippolyta
- Dioscuri
- Pandora
[edit] List of teachers
- Mr. Parentheses, headmaster (voiced by Eric Idle)
- Cassiopea
- Abas
- Physedipus, teacher of Physical Education
- Thespius
- Daedalus, teacher of Shop Class, Icarus' father (voiced by David Hyde Pierce)
- Herodotus, History teacher
- Pygmalion, teacher of Sculpture
[edit] Jr. Prometheus Academy
The junior school attached to Prometheus Academy. The students that attend are also figures from mythology or ancient history, though pre-teen versions of those characters, before they became famous. One of their teachers is Mr. Aesop, who tells stories (his eponymous fables) in order to teach the students by means of his morals.
[edit] Jr. Prometheus Academy students
[edit] Trojan Academy
Another high school-style Academy also exists in Troy. The Trojan Academy, as it is called, appeared first in the episode Hercules and the Trojan War. It is the rival school of Prometheus Academy and resembles it in many ways. Instead of a statue of Prometheus, they have a statue of a horse in the courtyard, based on the Trojan horse (although the horse of legend was supposedly derived from the statue and not the other way around). As with the Prometheus Academy, several of the students are characters from Greek myth, such as Paris.
[edit] Trivia
- During the course of the series, Hercules set out to rescue Prometheus.
- Paris sais "Oooh, an olive branch. How Athenian." This may be a reference to the fact that olives were one of the most common fruits in Greece escpecially in Athens. Also it may or may not be a reference to the fact that in Greek Mythology the olive tree was given to them by Athena.
