{"product_id":"heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-9781350370678","title":"Heracles and Athenian Propaganda","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\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 th\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039336235351,"sku":"9781350370678","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350370678.jpg?v=1750943371","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heracles-and-athenian-propaganda-9781350370678","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}