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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.
This book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which
the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or
controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on
classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and
critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game
of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary
investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human
form in language. This volume's essays suggest that the body's
meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its
wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition
between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find
themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies
regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and
violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy,
sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the
volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our
understanding of what it means to be human.
This book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which
the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or
controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on
classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and
critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game
of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary
investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human
form in language. This volume's essays suggest that the body's
meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its
wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition
between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find
themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies
regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and
violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy,
sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the
volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our
understanding of what it means to be human.
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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