They're just misunderstood is all.

If you're ever intimidated by reading epics and whatnot, just remember these things:

In The Illiad, Achilles was chased across the battlefield by an angry river because he clogged it up with dead people and wouldn't stop when the river asked him to.

(They really should have included that in Troy.)

The Argonautica refers to Amycus, the Bebrycian king as "the most obnoxious man alive."

(There are also numerous times in that story where the narrator goes off on tangents and then corrects himself.)