Herakles
Tom Sleigh
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Tom Sleigh
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Herakles Book’s narrative shows Herakles gradually descending into madness, instigated by Hera, Zeus’s wife. Hera harbors a deep resentment for Herakles, who is one of Zeus’s illegitimate children. In his deranged state, Herakles is pushed into killing his own family and subsequently exiles himself to Athens.

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Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh is a poet, essayist, and translator whose version of Herakles brings Euripides into direct contemporary English. Oxford University Press released the work in 2001 within its Greek Tragedy in New Translations series. Classicist and composer Christian Wolff supplied a literal rendering as guidance,…

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