HUM 102W Study Guide - Final Guide: Homeric Hymns, Eurystheus, Ambivalence
4 Dec 2018
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The greeks who can"t make up their mind about heracles. To be ambivalent is to have mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. This is exactly how the greeks feel about the great greek hero heracles, they are ambivalent about him. The image of heracles as seen by the greeks is concisely illustrated in the. Homeric hymns to heracles the lion hearted (hh 15) which depicts heracles as both a servant of eurystheus and a fearless hero who lives amongst the gods on olympos despite not being a god himself. First of all, heracles is seen as someone who performed many reckless deeds and suffered many things (hh 15. 6) including murdering his first wife and their three children under the influence of hera"s tampering with heracles and his mind. Although heracles was driven insane by hera, which led to him killing his family, he is still seen as someone who was not all good and committed many sins.
