Read this excerpt from “The Myth of Hercules.”Hercules was the son of the great god Zeus and a human woman named Alcmene. The goddess Hera did not like Alcmene and vowed to destroy Hercules when he was born. Hera sent two snakes to kill the baby as he lay in his crib, but Hercules was strong and strangled the snakes with his tiny hands before they could bite him with their sharp fangs.

The excerpt shows gods interacting with humans: Zeus has a child with the human woman Alcmene, and Hera acts against their son Hercules. This supports the choice “the gods interact with humans.” The snakes are animals, but their presence does not express the main characteristic of Greek mythology as clearly as the gods’ involvement in human lives.

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