Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama

by Sofia Frade

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece's most important 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. Though Athens needed a hero of Hellenic stature, Heracles was a deeply problematic figure: a violent hero of ancient epic, with an aristocratic nature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147250559X
• ISBN13: 9781472505590
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"