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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: violent hero
    sub title: Heracles in the Greek imagination
  name:
    name part: Hsu, Katherine Lu
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in archaic and classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his notorious failures. Driving each of these acts is his heroic violence, an ambivalent force that can offer communal protection as well as cause grievous harm. Drawing on evidence from epic, lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, this work illuminates the strategies used to justify, constrain and deflate the threatening aspects of violence. The mixed results of these strategies also demonstrate how the figure of Heracles inherently and stubbornly resist reform. The diverse character of Heracles' violent acts reveals an enduring tension in understanding violence. Is violence a negative individual trait, that is to say, the manifestation of an internal state of hostility? Or is it one specific means to a preconceived end, rather like an instrument whose employment may or may not be justified? Katherine Lu Hsu explores these evolving attitudes towards individual violence in the ancient Greek world while also shedding light on timeless debates about the nature of violence itself.
  note: Katherine Lu Hsu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Greek mythological character)
      name part: Heracles
  subject:
    topic: Violence in literature
  subject:
    topic: Greek literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PA3015.R5 H448 2021
  classification: 398.20938/02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
  identifier: 9781350153714
  identifier: 1350153710
  identifier: 9781350153721
  identifier: 9781350153738
  identifier: 2020024299
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200527
    record change date: 20210728140551.0
    record identifier: in00004425742