Killing Hercules: Deianira and the Politics of Domestic by Richard Rowland
By Richard Rowland
This publication deals a completely new reception background of the parable of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira. The publication poses, and makes an attempt to respond to, very important and similar questions. First, why have artists throughout millennia felt forced to revisit this actual fable to precise anxieties approximately violence at either an international and family point? Secondly, from the instant that Sophocles disrupted a fable in regards to the definitive exemplar of masculinity and martial prowess and grew to become it right into a tale approximately household abuse, via to a 2014 creation of Handel’s Hercules that was once set within the context of the ‘war on terror’, the reception historical past of this fantasy has been one among discontinuity and clash; how and why does every one tradition reinvent this narrative to deal with its personal matters and discontents, and the way does every one new release communicate to, qualify or annihilate the certainties of its predecessors as a way to comprehend, comprise or exonerate the aggression with which their governors – of country and of the family – so frequently implement their authority, and the violence to which their international locations, and their houses, are perennially vulnerable?
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