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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

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Name: Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Abbreviation(s): HtLJ, HTLJ, Hercules
Creator: Sam Raimi
Date(s): 1995-1999
Medium: television series
Country of Origin: New Zealand, US
External Links: IMDB
Subpages for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys:

Hercules · Iolaus


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Show synopsis

Hercules: the Legendary Journeys is set in a neverland version of ancient Greece that looked amazingly like New Zealand, complete with monsters, interfering gods and an off-the-wall spin on Greek mythology.

It spawned two spinoff shows, Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.

Characters

Hercules is a demigod, the son of Zeus and a human woman, Alcmene, and possibly immortal. Iolaus, a mortal, is his best friend. Together, they fight monsters, demons and evil warlords, including Xena, but she turned good after three episodes and went off on her own adventures, soon joined by Gabrielle.

Other fandom favorites include Ares, the god of war, and his sidekick Strife, Hercules' mortal half-brother Iphicles, Salmoneus, a kindly con man, Autolycus, the King of Thieves, Nebula, a pirate who's also a Sumerian princess, Cupid, god of love, and Joxer.

Hercules: the Legendary Journeys fandom

The fandom has split off into various slash pairings (Hercules/Iolaus, Ares/Joxer, Cupid/Strife and others), as well as a sizeable gen contingent. If there was acrimony in the past, it seems to be concentrated on the slash versus gen debate, rather than pairing wars. Nowadays the fandom's grown rather quiet, but several mailing lists are still active.

Notable Fanworks

Hercules fandom is new enough that it can be called an Internet fandom, but it also created paper zines, both slash and gen.

Mailing Lists

Story archives

Zines

Hercules: the Legendary Journeys was primarily an online fandom, with most of the fan fiction appearing in online archives such as the Iolausian Library, but it still produced some fanzines.

Some of the zines listed also contain Young Hercules stories.

The The Less Than Legendary Journeys (zine), with gen Hercules & Iolaus stories from the archive of the same name:

  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys I. Published May 2000. 2001 Fan Q winner winner for Best Hercules: the Legendary Journeys fanzine.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys II. Published May 2001.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys III. Published May 2002.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys IV. Published May 2003.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys V. Published May 2004.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys VI. Published May 2005.
  • The Less Than Legendary Journeys: the Naughty Bits. Published in May 2003. This edition contained the het and slash stories from the site.

Gen zines from DreamCatcher Press, with gen Hercules & Iolaus adventure and hurt/comfort stories:

Other zines include:

Essays

References

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