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Killing Hercules: Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror
Killing Hercules Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence from Sophocles to the War on Terror
Author: Richard Rowland
This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The book poses, and attempts to answer, two important and related questions. First, why have artists across two millennia felt compelled to revisit this particular myth to express anxieties about violence at both a global and domestic level? ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781472434029
ISBN-10: 1472434021
Publication Date: 12/19/2016
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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