{"product_id":"heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama-9781350370678","title":"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sofia Frade\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Folklore \u0026amp; Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084179759255,"sku":"9781350370678","price":3698.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350370678.webp?v=1768545496","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-politics-imagery-and-drama-9781350370678","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}