{"product_id":"heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-sofia-frade-9781350370678","title":"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sofia Frade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350370673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350370678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d","brand":"Sofia Frade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962591236351,"sku":"9781350370678","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef809919-133b-47b2-a38e-1c78612390a3.jpg?v=1750651922","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-sofia-frade-9781350370678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}