CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Omphale, Athens A
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Everybody wants to be heracles: the guy in the statue is roman emperor. In roman religion and politics the emperor is thought of as a god after death, so the emperor has an expectation that the same will happen to him. In stone, alexander the great, greeks from other city states did not consider. Macedonians as greeks, and the macedonian family alexander came from considered themselves greek and that they were descended from herakles: alexander is also presenting himself as the son of zeus. Temple of zeus at olympia: olympia is pan hellenic people from different city states would go to olympia to worship zeus, and the best way to do this by partaking in the olympic games. Photius bibl. 186: synopsis of myth, apollodorus is creating a biography of herakles through reading other sources, he has myth in his library, he ends it with a nostos.
