Hercules The Lightning Thief, Myth

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The Light Thief, Myth or Not In the article Hercules and The Book, The Lightning Thief, Myth I will be grabbing your intention to take you on a magic Adventure. To start with, I think it is a myth because a myth has their goodness, gods also they have power, its fiction they have magic.

To begin with, I will be talking about Super strength in the article “Hercules killed the Nemean Lion”. In the book the lightning Thief Super Strength: “Percy has shown great feats of superhuman strength, the greatest of which is lifting the sky although he barely could). His strength is augmented when in contact with water. Even as a baby, he is shown to have enough strength to straggle pythons that were sent after him. This is a reference to Hercules”.

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