The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece: Survey and Profile

By Mark W. Padilla

Book Overview

The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece surveys the rich legacy of Herakles's representations during the Archaic and Early Classical periods and joins to this survey a scholarly apparatus that summarizes and refers to a good portion of the work completed on the meanings and descriptions of these manifestations. Organized into complementing 'synchronic' and 'diachronic' perspectives, the Greeks' most popular but also most complex 'hero-god' emerges to the reader in a straightforwardly written appreciation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076181051X
• ISBN13: 9780761810513
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"