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PALLAEUS
Actor: Ross Duncan
Biography: The warlord Gorgus' second-in-command. When Iphicles showed up posing as Hercules, Pallaeus grew jealous as it looked like he would not only
supplant him in Gorgus' army, but he was also going to wed Gorgus' daughter
Rena who Pallaeus was in love with. He got a mandrake from a priest of Hera
and was promised it would come alive and kill Hercules. He tried to use it on
Iphicles and thereby discovered he was not really Hercules. He then kidnapped
Rena and used the mandrake on the real Hercules. Hercules defeated the
mandrake while Iphicles saved Rena from Pallaeus.

PENELOPE
Actress: Jacqueline Collen
Biography: A friend of Hercules. She invited him to her wedding to Marcus which unfortuantely turned into a bit of a disaster, when Nemis; a centaur and Penelope's childhood friend, kidnapped her and had Hercules blinded. Penelope was taken to a cave along with her maid of honour by the centaurs, but refused to marry Nemis. Hercules led a party to rescue her and in the ensuing fight the cave began to
collpase. Nemis gave his life holding the cave stable so that Penelope could escape.

PENTHEUS
Actor: Warren Carl
Biography: The older son of King Iphicles and Queen Camilla of Meliad. Pentheus planned to abuse the tradition of the Festival of Dionysus by having the virgins possessed by Ares so they kill the king and queen leaving him King and letting
him marry his brother's girlfriend. Hercules found out his plot and Pentheus
asked Ares to give him strength to defeat the demi-god. Hercules won and
Pentheus was condemned to work in the castle dungeons for life,. His brother
Nestotr was made heir to the throne in his place.

PERSEPHONE
Actress: Andrea Croton
Biography: The daughter of Demeter and Hercules' cousin. Hades kidnapped her
and took her to be his queen in the Underworld. Hercules came to rescue her, but found she actually did want to marry Hades. He proposed that she live with
Demeter half the year and Hades the other half. Persephone was indebted to
Hercules for this and in the future persuaded Hades to help Hercules when he
could.

PETRAKUS
Actor: Bill Johnson
Biography: Petrakus is a simple farmer, but a farmer whose lands Xena wanted to take. For that reason she told Iolaus that Petrakus was a bloodthirsty warlord who she needed help against. When Hercules met Petrakus for real, he realized just
how dangerous Xena was and rushed to Iolaus' aid.

PHAEDRA
Actress: Stephanie Barret
Biography: When Hercules was trying to retrieve the torch of Prometheus to
return fire to the world, he ran into the wild child Phaedra. She claimed to be of
use to him, but she was secretly an agent of Zeus sent to foil Hercules' plans.
She sent him and Deianera to the lair of Anteus the Giant who very nearly
killed them and then she tricked Hercules so that he and Deianera fell out.

PILOT
Actor: Carl Bland
Biography: A regular at the pleasure palace run by Salmoneus' brother-in-law.
When his favourite girl Lucina was going to leave to return to her husband
Atticus, Pilot beat Atticus up. Hercules came to sort him out and Pilot fled
only to be impaled on a sword Lucina was holding.

PITHUS
Actor: Lloyd Scott
Biography: With his village beset by Amazons, Pithus came to Hercules for help. Fearing ridicule, he told Hercules that his enemies were monsters, but in truth
they were merely Amazons dressed as animals and Pithus actually ahd a child
with one of them. Hercules advised Pithus and the villagers that to win the
Amazons over, they would have to traet them like people. The plan seemed to
work, until Hera possessed Hippolytia and she killed Pithus. When Zeus reversed
time, Hercules refuse dto go with Pithus and advised him how to placate the Amazons. Without Hercules there to antagonize Hera, the plan worked and the Amazons and villagers are now at peace.

POENA
Actress: Amber-Jane Raab
Biography: The daughter of the King of Tantalus. When her father was
murdered, Poena was told by Jarton, a soldier possessed by Ares, that it
was her brother Daulin's doing. Poena declared war on her brother. This was
exactly what Ares wanted as a war meant plenty of bodies to feed to Graegus,
the Dog of War. Hercules revealed Ares' plot to her and she and her brother
made peace.

POSTERA
Actress: Alison Bruce
Biography: The cruel consort of Menas Maxius. She had him make his
gladiatorial combats fights to the deaths and she also liked to use slaves for
her own personal pleasure. When both Gladius and Hercules rejected her,
she had them severely punished. When the slaves revolted against Menas,
she was exiled with him.

PROMETHEUS
Actor: Mark Ferguson
Biography: Prometheus angered the gods by stealing the secret of fire from
them and giving it to mortals. Hera took fire from back from the mortals
several millenia later by enclosing the torch of Prometheus in a circle of fire
that would kill anyone who touched it - even a god. This process removed fire
from the world and encased Prometheus in ice. Hercules entered the Circle of
Fire to retrieve the torch and it was only by Zeus' intervention that he did not
die. Once the torch was returned, Prometheus unfroze.

PURCES
Actor: Stephen Hall
Biography: Salmoneus' business partner. He was hired by the mysterious
Zandar to get Salmoneus to work with him in taking valuable artifacts from
a cave and selling them on. Unknown to Purces and Salmoneus was that these treasures were sacred to Hera and she sent Nemesis to kill Purces and
Salmoneus. Purces was killed while trying to back away from Nemesis.

PYRO
Actor: Stephen Hall
Biography: This fiery demon was created by Hera to kill Hercules' family. She
used him again to try and defeat Hercules after luring him into a trap by
putting Salmoneus in danger. Hercules trapped Pyro in a cask and without
oxygen his fire dissipated and he was destroyed.

RANKOR
Actor: John Dybvig
Biography: The leader of a group of barbarians who were terrorizing the road
to Thrace by pretending to be satyrs. When Iolaus and a Thracian woman
called Lydia found out their secret, the barbarians tried hard to stop him. After
being tricked into being trapped in cave with a Hydra by Iolaus, Rankor escaped somehow and tracked Iolaus down to Thrace. Ioluas knocked him out cold
before he could do anything and he was brought to justice

RENA
Actress: Simone Kessel
Biography: The daughter of the warlord Gorgus, but possessing none of his
evil tendencies. Her father was overjoyed when she announced she was
engaged to Hercules, but it was revealed that it was not Hercules she was
marrying, but his brother Iphicles who had been posing as him. Rena was
disgusted with Iphicles for lying to her, but forgave him when he saved her
from the devious Pallaeus. They later married and she helped him rule
Corinth until she died of an illness.

RHEANNA
Actress: Audie England
Biography: The leader of the rebels against King Melkos after her husband supposedly died. Hercules aided her against the evil king and fell in love with her despite Iolaus' prophetic warnings about her. Her husband turned out to be alive and Herc was forced to give her up after helping her beat Melkos.