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Heracles and Athenian Propaganda
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Heracles was Greece's most important hero. He was also a strong candidate for representing fifth century Athens who needed a hero of Hellenic stature to be associated with their new empire. However, he is also a deeply problematic figure: a violent hero of ancient epic, with an aristocratic nature and a murderous temper, who does not naturally fit into the new ideals of democratic society at Athens. Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how the 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.Examining how this particular play fits within the space of the polis and its political ideology, the title asks specific questions of tragedy and politics: how does Euripides' tragic drama of grief, insanity and murder reconciles this hero to a palatable, patriotic ideal? How does the tragic hero relates to his own representations and his cult within the polis? In a city so marked by iconographic propaganda, how did the imagery influence the audience?By looking at the play's larger contexts of 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.
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