The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination

by Katherine Lu Hsu

Book Overview

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his notorious failures. Driving each of these acts is his heroic violence, an ambivalent force that can offer communal protection as well as cause grievous harm.

Drawing on evidence from epic, lyric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350191701
• ISBN13: 9781350191709
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"