Heracles and Athenian Propaganda

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece''s most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides'' Heracles in 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 anc...