CLA388H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hoplite, Augeas, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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He commits terrible crimes, followed by humiliating expiation. He destroyed evil, sinned greatly, loved unwisely, fathered a whole race, and died shamefully at a woman"s hand. Yet he received his triumphant reward. powel, classical myth, 7th edition. In the traditions we have received, he is so infinitely changeable. Widely travelled even to the depths of hades. Hercules is an all-consuming myth, but also an endlessly fragmenting one. Conversely, his spectacular success has necessarily entailed a general lack of development of other themes from. Greek myth a failure only accentuated by one-off curiosities like the clash of the titans (1981). It is not just myth that suffers: hercules" 1960s excesses continue to put a spanner in the works of straight-faced attempts to create new, big budget pepla for the twenty-first century. nisbet, 2006, A perfect tragedy should as we have seen, be arrange not on the simple but on the complex plan.
