Heracles and Athenian Propaganda: Politics, Imagery and Drama

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\n1 Introduction\n2 Propaganda and Politics in Athens\n	The politics of tragedy\n	Polis religion and politics\n	Propaganda in ancient Athens\n	Athenian myth\n	Athenian autochthony and democracy: The problem with aristocracy\n	Athens and the Delian League: Athenian Panhellenism\n3 Transforming the Hero Heracles and Athenian Ideology\n	Heracles in Attic pottery\n	Heracles’ cult in Athens16\n	Heracles and Eleusis\n	Heracles and literature\n	Heracles in Athenian drama\n4 Forsaking the Tripod Heracles in Athenian Architecture\n	Delphi and the transformation of Heracles\n	The Agora and Cimon’s politics\n	Cimon’s programme\n	The Stoa Poikile\n	The Hephaisteion\n5 Crossing Boundaries What Is It to Be a Hero?\n	Kallinikos\n	The Homeric hero\n	The mad hero\n	The Aristocrat\n	Friends will be friends\n	Heracles and Ajax: Is there any hope?\n6 Into Athens Old Gods and New Gods\n	Gods\n	A new creed?\n	Justice\n	Heracles and the Oresteia: Athena as the champion of justice\n	Heracles in Athens: The chorus\n	A tale of two cities: Athens vs Th ebes\n	Athens to the rescue\n	Happy endings\n7 Conclusion\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex