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Heracles was Greece's most important hero. He was also a strong candidate for representing 5th-century Athens who needed a hero of Hellenic stature to be associated with their new empire. However, he was also a deeply problematic figure: a violent hero of ancient epic, with an aristocratic nature and a murderous temper, who did not naturally fit into the new ideals of democratic society at Athens. Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how the hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the hero and the city's ideology. Examining how this particular play fits within the space of the polis and its political ideology, the title asks specific questions of tragedy and politics: how does Euripides' tragic drama of grief, insanity and murder reconcile this hero to a palatable, patriotic ideal? How does the tragic hero relate to his own representations and his cult within the polis? In a city so marked by iconographic propaganda, how did the imagery influence the audience?By looking at the play's larger contexts - literary, civic, political, religious and ideological - new readings are offered to the most problematic elements of the play, including the question of its unity, the nature of the hero's madness and the role of the gods.

Heracles --- Euripides. --- In literature. --- History, Ancient --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Alcaeus --- Alcides --- Alkaios --- Alkeidēs --- Earcail --- Eracle --- Eracles --- Heracle --- Herakl --- Heraklej --- Hēraklēs --- Héraklész --- Heraklis --- Herakliu --- Heraklo --- Hērakls --- Héthacl'ye --- 赫拉克勒斯 --- ヘーラクレース --- הרקולס --- 헤라클레스 --- Херакле --- Херакъл --- Гэракл --- Геракл --- هرکول --- هيراكليس --- Ἀλκείδης --- Ἀλκαῖος --- Ἡρακλῆς --- Hercules

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Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama --- Heracles --- Alcaeus --- Alcides --- Alkaios --- Alkeidēs --- Earcail --- Eracle --- Eracles --- Heracle --- Herakl --- Heraklej --- Hēraklēs --- Héraklész --- Heraklis --- Herakliu --- Heraklo --- Hērakls --- Héthacl'ye --- 赫拉克勒斯 --- ヘーラクレース --- הרקולס --- 헤라클레스 --- Херакле --- Херакъл --- Гэракл --- Геракл --- هرکول --- هيراكليس --- Ἀλκείδης --- Ἀλκαῖος --- Ἡρακλῆς --- Hercules --- Heracles (Greek mythology) --- Heracles (Greek mythological character)

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"The first half of the volume is devoted to the exposition of the ancient evidence, literary and iconographic, for the traditions of Heracles' life and deeds. After a chapter each on the hero's childhood and his madness, the canonical cause of his Twelve Labors, each of the Labors themselves receives detailed treatment in a dedicated chapter. The 'Parerga' or 'Side-Labors' are then treated in a similar level of detail in seven further chapters. In the second half of the book the Heracles tradition is analysed from a range of thematic perspectives. After consideration of the contrasting projections of the figure across the major literary genres, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy, and in the iconographic register, a number of his myth-cycle's diverse fils rouges are pursued: Heracles' fashioning as a folkloric quest-hero; his relationships with the two great goddesses, the Hera that persecutes him and the Athena that protects him; and the rationalisation and allegorisation of his cycle's constituent myths. The ways are investigated in which Greek communities and indeed Alexander the Great exploited the figure both in the fashioning of their own identities and for political advantage. The cult of Heracles is considered in its Greek manifestation, in its syncretism with that of the Phoenician Melqart, and in its presence at Rome, the last study leading into discussion of the use made of Heracles by the Roman emperors themselves and then by early Christian writers. A final chapter offers an authoritative perspective on the limitless subject of Heracles' reception in the western tradition"--

Heracles --- Alcaeus --- Alcides --- Alkaios --- Alkeidēs --- Earcail --- Eracle --- Eracles --- Heracle --- Herakl --- Heraklej --- Hēraklēs --- Héraklész --- Heraklis --- Herakliu --- Heraklo --- Hērakls --- Héthacl'ye --- 赫拉克勒斯 --- ヘーラクレース --- הרקולס --- 헤라클레스 --- Херакле --- Херакъл --- Гэракл --- Геракл --- هرکول --- هيراكليس --- Ἀλκείδης --- Ἀλκαῖος --- Ἡρακλῆς --- Hercules

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"Wie keine andere mythische Figur der Antike vereint Herakles diverse Charaktereigenschaften in sich, die oft in eklatantem Widerspruch zueinander stehen. Silvio Bär untersucht, wie Herakles als literarische Figur in der altgriechischen Epik von Homer bis Nonnos verwendet wird und wie seine inhärente Widersprüchlichkeit funktionalisiert wird. Obwohl Herakles im altgriechischen Epos nie als Protagonist auftritt, ist er dennoch von herausragender Bedeutung, insofern als seine Präsenz oft in eine Wechselwirkung mit der Haupthandlung tritt oder für metapoetische Zwecke (das "Reden über das Erzählen") benutzt wird. Methodologisch orientiert sich die Studie an der in der Klassischen Philologie bisher kaum angewendeten Methode der narratologischen Figurenanalyse. Ferner postuliert Bär die "Widerspruchsfähigkeit des Mythos": Das "System Mythos" folgt demnach einer eigenen Logik, Widersprüche und Ungereimtheiten müssen nicht aufgelöst oder erklärt werden, sondern ergänzen und verstärken einander gegenseitig - eine Eigenschaft des Mythos, für die Herakles beispielhaft steht."--Publisher's website.

Epos. --- Greek literature --- Greek literature. --- Griechisch. --- Narrativität. --- Poetizität. --- History and criticism. --- Herakles. --- Hercules, --- History and criticism --- Heracles --- Hercules --- Херкулес --- Kherkules --- Herkules --- Erculu --- Herkul --- Ercole --- Erculi --- Херкул --- Alcaeus --- Alcides --- Alkaios --- Alkeidēs --- Earcail --- Eracle --- Eracles --- Heracle --- Herakl --- Heraklej --- Hēraklēs --- Héraklész --- Heraklis --- Herakliu --- Heraklo --- Hērakls --- Héthacl'ye --- 赫拉克勒斯 --- ヘーラクレース --- הרקולס --- 헤라클레스 --- Херакле --- Херакъл --- Гэракл --- Геракл --- هرکول --- هيراكليس --- Ἀλκείδης --- Ἀλκαῖος --- Ἡρακλῆς

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Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek drama and fifth-century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and about Greek tragedy. Tracing some of Euripides' most spectacular writing in terms of emotional and intellectual effect, and discussing questions of narrative, rhetoric, stagecraft and audience reception, this work is required reading for all students and scholars of Euripides.

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