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The Children of Heracles is a powerful and challenging tragedy of exile and supplication. Driven from their homeland by Eurystheus, King of Argos, the children of Heracles flee as fugitives throughout Greece until they are granted protection in Athens. However, their acceptance as political refugees threatens to cause civil revolt among the Athenians and hostile invasion from the Argives. The self-sacrifice of Heracles' daughter ensures a victory for Athens and the Heraclidae, but Heracles' mother Alcmene refuses to spare the life of Eurystheus, altlhough he is a prisoner of war protected by Athenian law. The play shows the amorality of the powerful and the vulnerability of refugees in the most disturbing terms, making for a drama of continuing moral and political relevance to the modern world.
Allan (Classics, Harvard U.) argues that the play is not merely a mechanical and dull panegyric of Athens, as most critics charge, but in fact a dynamic and effective tragedy. In addition to an English translation facing pages of the original Greek, he places the play in its historical context, and shows how it addressed the interests and dilemmas of its original fifth-century BC Athenian audience. Distributed in the US by David Brown Book Co. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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