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.
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ISBN
9780199727803
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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