User blog comment:Menara/The Mark of Athena Character Art Revealed!/@comment-4430596-20120903194159/@comment-3146930-20120903194754

Here is the thing. If anything, Hercules would want the gates open because if the doors are closed, he has no job. Zeus was the one that ordered them closed, so Hercules would have to go against his father and open them and even if he did, the gods are still under orders not to leave