The Choice of Hercules

This article is about the story of The Choice of Hercules’, which is a metaphor for the ability we all have to make choices and the consequences of those choices. The version of The Choice of Hercules presented here is an excerpt from Donald Robertson’s book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor. One day, as a young man, Hercules was walking along an unfamiliar path when he came upon a fork in the road, where he sat down and began contemplating his future....