Killing Hercules : Deianira and the politics of domestic violence, from Sophocles to the war on terror /
Each chapter of this book offers a detailed account of the ways in which different cultures, the ancient Greek democracy, imperial Rome, early Christianity, the emergent vernacular cultures of late medieval and early modern Europe and the Enlightenment, have reevaluated the story of Hercules and his...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Summary: | Each chapter of this book offers a detailed account of the ways in which different cultures, the ancient Greek democracy, imperial Rome, early Christianity, the emergent vernacular cultures of late medieval and early modern Europe and the Enlightenment, have reevaluated the story of Hercules and his wife and killer Deianira, in the light of their own attempts to come to terms with the phenomena of military and domestic violence. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 327 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472434029 1472434021 |