{"product_id":"heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama-paperback","title":"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSofia Frade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeracles and Athenian Propaganda \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how Greece's most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' \u003ci\u003eHeracles \u003c\/i\u003ein 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 and a murderous temper, who did not naturally fit into the new ideals of democratic society at Athens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining how Euripides' play fits within the space of the \u003ci\u003epolis \u003c\/i\u003eand its political ideology, Sofia Frade asks specific questions of tragedy and politics: how does Euripides' tragic drama of grief, insanity and murder reconcile this hero to a palatable, patriotic ideal? How does the tragic hero relate to his own representations and his cult within the \u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e? In a city so marked by iconographic propaganda, how did the imagery influence the audience? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy looking at the play's larger contexts - literary, civic, political, religious and ideological - new readings are offered to the most problematic elements of the play, including the question of its unity, the nature of the hero's madness and the role of the gods.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSofia Frade\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636744843571,"sku":"9781350370678","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nFUdlAZA-H9781350370678.webp?v=1762278780","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}