Comments by "Ptolémée Sélénion" (@ptolemeeselenion1542) on "Analyzing Evil: Syndrome From The Incredibles" video.
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@LordWyatt That's so awfully wrong. There has no equivalent term for superpowered beings in Greek mythology: not all Heroes are superpowered (only alternatingly stronger, wiser and holier than the common of post-Heroic Age mortals) . A larhe extent of Heroes were either demigods or mortals of divine descent, but others were simply but mere above-average mortals.
In Greek mythology, various entities and beings possesses or manifests supernatural abilities: Gods, Titans, Protogenois/Primordials, monsters, chthonic beasts, divine beasts, mortal magic practitioners, holy individuals, priests/tesses, spirits, the disembombied souls of the dead, conceptual beings, Demigods and to a certain extent all Mortal humans due to their own innate low spiritual/psychic potential (Humans can appeal, summon or feed off a deity or deified ancestor with the gift of prayer and sacred rituals, build up sacred domains, mentally experience mystical phenomena, and somehow barely influence the course of the world and of nature and appease the Divine by mobilizing their forces) . There has no particular denomination in Greek mythology and philosophic views for what some may calls in a Western urban setting, piece of science fiction or of science fantasy a "metahuman" , "mutant" or "super" in terms accordingly to both the superhero and science fiction genres, aside maybe (albeit not inclusively) magois / wizards / mages, holy persons, mortals turned into monstruous beings (which was seldom ever reported in Greek secular academic gnosis. They spoke about a few seldom reports reported every coulle few centuries in Greek Roman bkth medical and historic literature about people in Greece and the Balkans suffering of an affliction that made them into literal murderous man-eating werewolves overnight and going on a killing spree across bucolic lands for years before getting captured and killed) , of a fewer reported cases of buck goats from Lesbos Island said from having sex-shifted overnight into does and vice-versa for the does (and believed that these "miracles" were performed by Aphrodite's influence) , some myth about a water source nearby the town of Halicanassus in ancient Caria (south-western Anatolia) that affects men's masculine spirits and gradually "effeminate" them because the nymph associated to said waters was said from having raped/merged with Aphrodite and Hermes's son countless thousands of years ago and turned together into an intersex form of the latter, affecting forever the waters with feminizing properties (although, it could simply be a myth meant to criticize why Ionian Greeks were going native while meddling with the Asians, whose cultures were esteemed too "effeminate" in the eyes of the presumably "virile" Greek culture) and mentions of practises reminiscing of the Berserkers from medieval Norse and Germanic cultures amid historical accounts of the Goths, Celts/Gauls, some sub-tribes of the legendary Achaeans of yore, and a few Scythian tribes.
But that's pretty much it. Nothing about a race of Homo Magis or Wizards. Nothing about supers and mutants. Solely about what must come close to the concept of the "quintessential man" in medieval achemical esoterism, of the "awakened man" in the philosophies of the Lumieres of the XVIIIth century or of the "übermensch" in Nietchzean philosophy. Of course, the Sybils might've maybe come off as an exception to the rule...
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