Prometheus Academy

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 off characters from mythology.

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

List of Students

• Hercules (voiced by Tate Donovan), student, demi-god, son of Zeus (Corey Burton) & Hera (Samantha Eggar), adopted son of Alcmene (Barbara Barrie) & Amphitryon (Corey Burton), hero-in-training under Phil (Robert Costanza), social outcast.
• Icarus (voiced by French Stewart), the "brain-fried" son of Daedalus & Naucrate (voiced by David Hyde Pierce & Jean Smart), friend of Herc, novice creaton, class geek. Icarus has an unhealthy and clingy obsession for Cassandra. Secretly, Icarus occasionally dons a pair of his wax-wings and pretends to be a relatively unsuccessful superhero.
• Cassandra (voiced by Sandra Bernhard), friend of Hercules, social outcast, and Seer cursed to see doom and disaster never to be believed. Daughter of Vic (Fred Willard) and Evelyn (Georgia Engel), who call her "Casserole." Cassandra is cursed with the helpless ability to foresee catastrophic events, but never to be believed. When one of these prophetic trances overcome her, she becomes immobile and her eyes spin. Icarus calls this her "Cassandra-Vision." Cassandra despises Icarus and calls him her stalker, but she tolerates his presence because otherwise she would have no friends.
• Adonis (voiced by Diedrich Bader), arrogant and pampered Prince of Thrace, son of King Cinyras (John O'Hurley) & Myrrha (Holland Taylor). Former boyfriend of Megara (Susan Egan).
• Helen (voiced by Jodi Benson), wealthy (most likely royalty) student, girlfriend of Adonis.
• Ajax (grunts by Frank Welker?), barbarian student with very bad hygiene.
• Tempest, (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh), the quick-tempered Amazon "Warrior Princess" daughter of Queen Hippolyta & King Darius, (voiced by Jane Curtin & Emeril Lagasse).
• Triton (voiced by Chris Elliott), Young godling son of Poseidon & Amphitrite (voiced by Jason Alexander & Leslie Mann). Cousin of Hercules and new student at the Prometheus Academy.
• Melampus (voiced by Ethan Embry), Rival of Icarus for Cassandra's affections. Mykloid fan-boy of the comic-scroll superhero Myklos.
• Electra (voiced by Joey Lauren Adams), goth student.
• Pandora (voiced by Jenna von Oÿ), student who possesses a locker full of miseries.
• Andromeda (voiced by Kath Soucie), new student who attracts Herc's attention.
• Anaxarete (voiced by Cree Summer), Herc's former girlfriend
• Dioscuri

List of teachers

• Mr. Parentheses, Prometheus Academy's Class Administator and Student Counselor (voiced by Eric Idle)
• Ms. Cassiopea, Poetry Teacher (voiced by Alice Ghostley)
• Phys Oedipus, teacher of Physical Education (voiced by Richard Simmons)
• Miss Thespius, Drama Teacher (voiced by Kathy Najimy)
• Mr. Daedalus, (a.k.a. Dad-alus) ProAc Shop Class Instructor, father of Icarus, and greatest inventor of all antiquity. (voiced by David Hyde Pierce)
• Mr. Herodotus, History teacher (voiced by Jess Harnell & Paul Ruebens)
• Mr. Pygmalion, Art teacher (voiced by Calvert DeForest)
• Mr. Ptolemy, Astronomy Instructor (voiced by George Takei)
• Mr. Aesop, Storytime Instructor for ProAc, Jr (Prometheus Junior Academy) (voiced by Bob Keeshan)
• Miss Euphrosyne, Home Greconomics Teacher (voiced by Melissa Manchester)
• Mr. Linus, Music Teacher (voiced by Jason Marsden)
• Abas

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.

Jr. Prometheus Academy students

• Alex (voiced by Courtland Mead)
• Brutus, a centaur foal (voiced by Pamela Segall)
• Callista (voiced by Lacey Chabert)
• Alcides (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh)
• Phillip, kid with teething troubles (voiced by Ryan O'Donohue)

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.

Trivia

• 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 escpecially 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 Athena.

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