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Third installment of Classics with humor, consisting of entertaining talks on topics from the Greco-Roman world, prepared in an informal and entertaining tone using humor as a means of transmission, led by comedian and Latin teacher Francisco Santanta Santos. This edition will address the figure of Heracles (the Roman Hercules) who led a hazardous life full of calamities but also adventures. Thus he had up to seventy children and ended his days at the stake. But after all he had a happy ending.
Heracles (the Roman Hercules) was a hero who had to go through a painful, long and hectic process of purification at the same time that he was set all kinds of deadly traps and tests to overcome. He was the son of Zeus and Alcmena, a mortal, but this fact was not taken very well by Hera, his father's wife, who dedicated herself to making his life impossible. But this eventful and calamity-filled life still left him time to have seventy children –among other adventures– and end his days at the stake. But the fire only killed his human side and he finally joined the immortal gods and even reconciled with Hera who became his heavenly mother. This Heracles is a case in point.
Classics with Humor are talks prepared with great rigor, but not with rigor mortis. They are accompanied by projection of images and conclude with a possible final discussion-discussion. Given by Francisco Santana Santos, member of the Spanish Society of Classical Studies and former Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the Canary Islands section of the same society; 36 years of teaching Latin and Greek, first as an Associate Professor of Latin in Baccalaureate and, from 1984 to 2014 as Professor of Greek in Baccalaureate. He has also been a comedian and member of the duo Piedra Pómez since 1987 and Director of the ULPGC Humor Classroom since its creation in 2005.