Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror
by
Richard Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
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...