{"product_id":"9781350370678-heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama","title":"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolitics, Imagery and Drama\u003cbr\u003eA case-study of Heracles' role in Athenian propaganda and how this affects the reading of Euripides’ \u003ci\u003eHeracles\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602048720993,"sku":"9781350370678","price":27.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27999081.jpg?v=1722242944","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350370678-heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}