Prometheus Academy

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Prometheus Academy is a fictional high school from the Disney animated television series Hercules (see also). 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 on characters from mythology.

The Academy was named after the Titan Prometheus, who brought fire from Mount Olympus (the metaphorical "light of reason") to the mankind, and was punished by Zeus being chained to a rock and having his liver pecked out by an eagle every day forever. A bronze statue of Prometheus being administered his punishment is the central point of the Academy's courtyard.

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[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

A prestigious academy in the city state of Troy where Prince Paris, and Otus, the demi-god son of Poseidon attend school. School team is called "The Stallions" and the school colors are Blue and Silver. 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.

Also seen twice in the series was the Spar O.T.C. (a.k.a. Spartan Military Academy) Spartan Officer Training Corps/Military high school in the city-state of Sparta, patron city-state of Ares. School's sports team name is "The Wardogs." Motto: Go Dogs! Victory or Death! Seen in the episodes Hercules and the Big Game and Hercules and the Spartan Experience.

[edit] Trivia

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  • During the course of the series, Hercules set out to rescue Prometheus.
  • Paris says "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 especially 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 the goddess Athena.