Heracles was far from being the ideal hero of the Ionian race, and they were always eager to see him depicted as dull-witted as he was stout of limb. Hospitality was claimed as an especially Hellenic ...

In Euripides’s telling of Heracles’s pre-divine adventures, the playwright breaks from the narrative recorded by Diodorus and Cicero by inverting the two major events in the Heracles myth. Euripides’ ...