4 He [= Hēraklēs] used to travel all over the boundless earth and all over the sea, |5 veering from his path and wandering off, all because of the missions assigned to him by Eurystheus the king. |6 He [= Hēraklēs] performed many reckless things on his own, and he suffered many such things in return. Read more
Professor Gregory Nagy (Harvard University) joined members and viewers for a live discussion and broadcast, on Euripides' Herakles, and on his own book, The Best of the Achaeans. Read more
"...I am not responsible [aitios]. |87 No, those who are really responsible are Zeus and Fate [Moira] and the Fury [Erinys] who roams in the mist. |88 They are the ones who, at the public assembly, had put savage derangement [atē] into my thinking [phrenes] |89 on that day when I myself deprived Achilles of his honorific portion [geras]. |90 But what could I do? The god is the one who brings everything to… Read more
The Book Club's selection for April is Herakles by Euripides. The drama is part of our Text Library, and it is available under the "Texts" page as a PDF or epub. Join us for the following events. Read more
I am normally a pretty fast reader, but I loved Professor Nagy's encouragement to us about really engaging with the texts, when he quoted Nietzsche: "read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate fingers and eyes." So I wanted to relish the journey by engaging in detail with a text that was new to me, the Herakles of Euripides Read more
