Herakles Mainomenos

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Excerpt from Herakles Mainomenos: With Introduction and NotesAthenian ascendancy in the legend, which every Greek admitted as part and parcel of the national mythology, that Athens had championed the cause of the ancestors of Sparta's kings against the hostility of Thebes and Argos. It is clearly with this motive of associating the national Hellenic hero with Attic cults that Euripides draws attention (line 613) to the otherwise irrelevant incident of the initiation of Heracles at Eleusis, and offers an aetiological explanation (1328 foll.) of the fact, mentioned by Plutarch, that in the numerous Thesea scattered throughout the Attic demes the worship of Heracles and Theseus was united. This was especially the case in the Theseum at Athens, in the sculptures of which the labours of the two heroes are associated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.