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The Violent Hero - Heracles in the Greek Imagination (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,143
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The Violent Hero - Heracles in the Greek Imagination (Hardcover): Katherine Lu Hsu

The Violent Hero - Heracles in the Greek Imagination (Hardcover)

Katherine Lu Hsu

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This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his notorious failures. Driving each of these acts is his heroic violence, an ambivalent force that can offer communal protection as well as cause grievous harm. Drawing on evidence from epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, and comedy, this work illuminates the strategies used to justify and deflate the threatening aspects of violence. The mixed results of these strategies also demonstrate how the figure of Heracles inherently - and stubbornly - resists reform. The diverse character of Heracles' violent acts reveals an enduring tension in understanding violence: is violence a negative individual trait, that is to say the manifestation of an internal state of hostility? Or is it one specific means to a preconceived end, rather like an instrument whose employment may or may not be justified? Katherine Lu Hsu explores these evolving attitudes towards individual violence in the ancient Greek world while also shedding light on timeless debates about the nature of violence itself.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2020
Authors: Katherine Lu Hsu (Assistant Professor of Classics)
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-15371-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Greek religion
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Greek religion
LSN: 1-350-15371-0
Barcode: 9781350153714

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