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Lu Hsu's close readings are good starting points for taking students through the different manifestations of Heracles in classical Greek literature. --Classics for All

The Violent Hero offers a comprehensive study of Herakles’ violent nature and behaviour and its ramifications for Greek culture, literature, and arts. While scholars have hitherto taken Herakles’ 'heroic violence' as a given fact, Katherine Lu Hsu proposes for the first time a systematic scholarly evaluation of this topic. -- Silvio Bär, Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Oslo, Norway Lu Hsu’s close readings are good starting points for taking students through the different manifestations of Heracles in classical Greek literature. * Classics for All * By focusing brilliantly on the chosen theme … The Violent Hero allows us to reflect, with a certain distance, on the very difficult way in which we must manage and talk about violence, today more than ever. -- Annie Verbanck-Piérard * Kernos *

The Violent Hero offers a comprehensive study of Herakles’ violent nature and behaviour and its ramifications for Greek culture, literature, and arts. While scholars have hitherto taken Herakles’ 'heroic violence' as a given fact, Katherine Lu Hsu proposes for the first time a systematic scholarly evaluation of this topic. -- Silvio Bär, Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Oslo, Norway Lu Hsu’s close readings are good starting points for taking students through the different manifestations of Heracles in classical Greek literature. * Classics for All *

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Katherine Lu Hsu is Assistant Professor of Classics at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA. She has published on topics ranging from literary papyrology to Greek tragedy and classical reception.

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