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Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of the madness, often in accordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, necessarily entailed redefining Herakles' heroism.
Riley demonstrates that, in spite of its relatively infrequent staging, the Herakles has always surfaced in historically charged circumstances - Nero's Rome, Shakespeare's England, Freud's Vienna, Cold-War and post-9/11 America - and has had an undeniable impact on the history of ideas. As an analysis of heroism in crisis, a tragedy about the greatest of heroes facing an abyss of despair but ultimately finding redemption through human love and friendship, the play resonates powerfully with individuals and communities at historical and ethical crossroads.
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Kathleen Riley is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Riley's account is absorbing, her material richly varied. * Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome * offer[s] a great deal about a dizzying range of subjects * Phoenix * Kathleen Riley takes on the monster task of mapping the reception of Euripides' Herakles from its premiere to the present day, and in 398 pages of careful scholarship, she triumphs in the labour. The book is both rigorous and readable, and a clear contribution to the field of reception studies in Classics. * Rosie Wyles, Hermanthena *
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0199534489
- ISBN 13 9780199534487
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages410
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