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Herakles
Herakles
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In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order. Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. Depicting Herakles slowly going mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus, this play continues to haunt and inspire readers. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery, and in his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children and is eventually exiled, by his own accord, to Athens. This new volume includes a fresh translation, an updated introduction, detailed notes on the text, and a thorough glossary.
Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > Literature > Collections of general literature > Wit and humor > By region or country > Euripedes
- Academic > Literature > Collections of general literature > Wit and humor > By region or country
- Academic > Literature > Classical literature > Greek literature > Individual authors Including:
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Greek philology and language
- Social Science > Folklore & Mythology
- Literary Criticism
- Drama
- Folklore & Mythology
- Classic Literature
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9781602563872
9780195131161
160256387X

