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Heracles: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth

Heracles: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth

Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara), Peta

Paperback

Series: The Ancient Worlds and Sacred Cosmologies

Literary CriticismReligion General Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1764677870
ISBN13: 9781764677875
Publisher: Peta Oakes
Published: May 16 2026
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

HERACLES: Ancient Greece, Cult Tradition, and Regional Myth explores one of the most enduring heroic figures of the ancient Mediterranean world through mythology, sacred landscape, religious tradition, and symbolic interpretation.

Far more than a slayer of monsters, Heracles stood between mortal suffering and divine transformation. Through the Twelve Labours, he confronts lions, serpents, sacred beasts, savage kings, cosmic boundaries, and the Underworld itself. Each trial reveals a deeper struggle between civilisation and chaos, mortality and immortality, violence and purification.

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