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the Violent Hero: Heracles Greek Imagination
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the Violent Hero: Heracles Greek Imagination
Current price: $130.00
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the Violent Hero: Heracles Greek Imagination
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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.