Euripides: Herakles

By:

* Euripides

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Greek Tragedy in New Translations

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In "Herakles", Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence and civic order. Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most sceptically subversive examination of myth, morality, and power. The play depicts Herakles being driven mad by Hera, the wife of Zeus. Hera hates Herakles because he is one of Zeus' children born of adultery. In his madness, Herakles is driven to murder his own wife and children, and he eventually exiles himself to Athens.

Release date Australia

January 18th, 2001

Author

* Euripides

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Translated by Christian Wolff
Translated by Thomas Sleigh

Pages

122

Series

Greek Tragedy in New Translations

Dimensions

135x202x7

ISBN-13

9780195131161

Product ID

2198981

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