How did the gods help hercules?

Same reason that any hard science isn't. So it's okay to teach that volcanoes formed the Hawaiian Islands, even tho nobody saw that happen? YOU may pick-&-chose what historical facts YOU wish to believe & which you don't, but school text books can't do that.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.