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  1. Madness and Bestialization in euripides' Heracles.Antonietta Provenza - 2013 - Classical Quarterly 63 (1):68-93.
    Against a background of anxious evocation of Dionysiac rites, Euripides'Heraclesstages the extreme degradation of the tragic hero who, as a consequence of the hatred of a divinity, loses his heroic traits and above all his human ones in the exercise of brutal violence. By comparing Heracles in the grip of madness to a furious bull assailing its prey, the tragedian clearly shows the inexorability of the divine will and its arbitrariness, and emphasizes madness itself through images traditionally associated with the (...)
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  • Matricidal Madness in Foucault's Anthropology: The Pierre Rivière Seminar.John M. Ingham - 2007 - Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 35 (2):130-158.
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  • Euripides' Heracles in the Flesh.Brooke Holmes - 2008 - Classical Antiquity 27 (2):231-281.
    In this article, I analyze the role of Heracles' famous body in the representation of madness and its aftermath in Euripides' Heracles. Unlike studies of Trachiniae, interpretations of Heracles have neglected the hero's body in Euripides. This reading examines the eruption of that body midway through the tragedy as a part of Heracles that is daemonic and strange, but also integral to his identity. Central to my reading is the figure of the symptom, through which madness materializes onstage. Symptoms were (...)
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