...This chapter discusses five aspects of Euripides' Alkestis: (i) the significance of the house door in the action of the play; (ii) the boundary between life and death; the role of Herakles; (iii) the character of Admetos; (iv) the genre (prosatyric?); and (v) the tone of the work...

... to use in its study of the past. The Lindians had played a role in the adventures of Herakles, the Trojan War, the colonization to the coast of Asia Minor and to Magna Graecia, the Persian Wars, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. They bask in the reflected glory of their goddess, Athena Lindia...

...The myth of Herakles had long been connected with the river Istros in Danube. Alexander the Great's crossing of the Hellespont and the visit to Ilion are pregnant with symbolism. On the eve of the battle of Issos (autumn 333 B.C.), Alexander arrived at the Kilikian city of Mallos, which he found...

... dreadful companion, slain by Herakles. The process whereby the Caucasus was identified with the Hindu Kush appeared to be the reverse of that envisioned by the third-century geographer, Eratosthenes of Kyrene. Alexander marched beyond the Caucasus (the site of the easternmost adventure of Herakles, or so...

... and to the earliest theology of the nascent Christian churches. This book delves into a wide range of primary texts in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew to trace Alexander as a mythological figure, from his relationship to his ancestor and rival, Herakles, to the idea of his divinity as the son of a god. In detail, the book...

... Martinus Pappenheim Mark Auletta Robert The Persians adaptation Cooper Bo immigration and Sellars’ Children of Herakles Mnouchkine Ariane Posner Michael public venues and discussion Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Sellars’ Zaide Baibussynova Ulzhan Clay Carolyn music Peter Sellars Ajax Children...

...The paper treats the visualization of epiphany and theoxeny in ancient Greek art with particular reference to votive reliefs, such as those dedicated to Asklepios, Aphrodite, Herakles and the Dioskouroi. It discusses some images showing the direct encounter with the divine, most of them from...

...Theocritus. William G. Thalmann, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197636558.003.0002 Idylls on mythological themes portray heroes who were important to the Ptolemies’ self-representation, Herakles and the Dioskouroi...

... kinship ties, with emphasis on the figure of Herakles in Sparta’s colonial traditions and its claim to being the liberator of Greece, respectively. Special attention is paid to the intense intertextual dialogue with Herodotus in charting Sparta’s colonial activity in the West. The Melian Dialogue, one...

...This chapter argues that Euripides' Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women should be studied together because both are remarkably similar products of a moment in the playwright's career and the history of Athens. That moment, in the early stages...

... and refoundation has played an important role. They also focus on the model of a loyal auxiliary and his rewards. Aitna city authority Chromios faction Hagesias migration occasion seer PINDAR Carthaginians chariot race festival games Heloros Battle of Herakles Himera kōmos Kumai Ortygia toil...

...This chapter, which focuses on Archibald MacLeish's Herakles and Simon Armitage's Mister Heracles, investigates the emergence, in late 20th- and early 21st-century stage adaptations of Euripides' text, of a neo-Senecan Herakles and the concurrent identification...

...This chapter’s focus is the Hellenistic period. It examines the way in which Macedonians relocated or ‘returned’ mythical heroes (Perseus, Herakles, Jason and Medea) to the new lands they themselves had conquered. It uses the Syrian city of Apameia as a test case. VIRGIL Alexander the Great Asia...

...0 21 09 1995 This content is only available as a PDF. Frogs journey Herakles Xanthias luggage Euripides died in 406 BC, and in Frogs, performed at the Lenaia in 40 5, Dionysos, the god of drama, has come to the conclusion that there are no good tragedians...

..., but the mechanism is much disputed: catastrophic theories, like tsunamis, have always been popular, but it is more likely to have been prosaic processes such as erosion triggered by hill farming, ironically the same process that made the original Olympia Terrace. Zeus Jupiter ivory Phidias Athena Herakles...

...With Alexander the Great's death, many fates now hung in the balance: of empire, of immense fortunes, of personal careers and innumerable lives. And so did Alexander's myth. The theme of Alexander's special relationship with Herakles plays an important role in securing the continuation...

... of material and linguistic evidence. The chapter first addresses both ‘native’ and scholarly approaches to the question of the early history of the Greek gods. Second, it uses the figures of Zeus, Herakles, and Aphrodite as case studies to complicate the question of origins in cases where Indo-European...

... Philoctetes’ character communication desire gods Greek Herakles nature Odysseus Philoctetes pity shore society Sophocles virtue war wounds community compassion emotion marginal figures need Neoptolemus suffering family glory healing reason sacrifice voice xenos contact endurance...

... excellent son of Amphitryon, you would be right enough, if you were a body, but in fact you are a bodiless wrath (eidōlon). Herakles has no body in the present context: therefore there must in fact be three Herakleses (DD 11.5.3–4): one in the sky, one...

... primitivism Basel Herakles Pholos Oxford Athenian Agora Ferrari G Aphrodite Empedokles golden race Hesiod Boas G Dikaiarchos hard primitivism Lovejoy A O soft primitivism Theognis Ethiopians Herodotos Hyperboreans Pindar Skythians Elysian Fields Homer Isles of the Blessed Lucian...