I will be silly right now. I just find it interesting and I am surprised that people miss it sometimes.

Since we were talking about Heracles; Heracles actually married his first wife Megara to his nephew and protegee Iolaos. Ironically the excuse he used for this match was and I quote "to encourage men not to be afraid to marry older women"

Hahahaha you may say whatever you want about Heracles but you cannot say that he doesn't support older ladies haha By the way we even have an age mark for the match (Iolaos was 16 while Megara was 33). I also wonder whether Megara remained married to Iolaos till the end of her life and if yes that means that Iolaos potentially took her with him when Heracles made him in charge to colonize Spain with some of his eldest sons with the 50 daughters of Thespius (which is another thing that people do not say much, he literally gave his nephew the scouts and sent them on a field trip hahahahaha!)

Also generally people do not speak about Heracles outside his labors and maybe Argonautica in general but Heracles has many myths that are linked to his life for instance the founding of the city of Cius (Kios) either by Heracles himself or his friend Polyphemus; After Hylas died Heracles was frantic and looked everywhere for him. Polyphemus stayed with him, not re-joining the Argonautica. Polyphemus ruled the city of Kios and established a tradition that according to legend became an annual ritual; the city continued to look for Hylas as some sort of ritual festivity for centuries after even Heracles died. My man established a city AND a festival dedicated to that one young person that died because a nymph wanted to kiss him underwater!

Last but not least and in a more serious note I think one hella underrated myth that literally NO ONE talks about is the death of Orpheus. Yeah you heard that right.

I hear people talk about Orpheus and Eurydice or at best at Argonautica but very little is known abut Opheus or explored for that matter. For instance people do not know that Opheus seemingly founded several rituals of Dionysus or that he even established his Bacchic worship and that is important to say because ironically his death came from a Bacchic ritual aka a Thracian woman Maenad! Either because Oprheus was depressed and ignored the Bacchic rituals after he lost Eurydice or during the celebrations (in one of the graphic images Ovid gives us) Orpheus was torn limb by limb by the Thracian Maenads. Honestly the death of Oprheus is a really sad myth that I hardly ever see talked about

This art looks like it was made for tumblr so I’d better post it here