I do love the differences between the modern day hero and the ancient model.

Yeah, Odysseus is a prick. Telemachus isn't so bad though, must get it from his mother.

I've always kind of though of the majority of Greek heroes as having severe impulse control problems, they do tend to exhibit the extremes of human behaviour.

I can kind of see where Iason is coming from, I mean, Medea's fine until he gets home and all of a sudden he's being looked down on for having a foreign, barbarian wife. Doesn't mean I agree with him and it certainly doesn't stop me from cheering on her (rather extreme) vengance.

Kephalos...I have no idea what he was thinking, he's one of the ones I totally fail to get. I adore Prokris to a slightly ridiculous degree, though. For a mysogynistic society, they had some awesome heroines.