In this play, Euripides takes as his subject the figure of <strong>Heracles</strong> and uses it to explore the contrast between his glamorous heroic image, wel... » 

In this play, Euripides takes as his subject the figure of Heracles and uses it to explore the contrast between his glamorous heroic image, well-known in myth, and the ugly reality of domestic violence involving the less well-known story about the murder of his wife and his children. «