
The living word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates The hero’s agony in the Bacchae of Euripides The hero as mirror of men’s and women’s experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and heroic pollution Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the power of the cult hero in death Looking beyond the cult hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus Heroic aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus The cult hero as an exponent of justice in Homeric poetry and beyond Blessed are the heroes: The cult hero in Homeric poetry and beyond The mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey The return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey The psychology of the hero’s sign in the Homeric Iliad The sign of the hero in visual and verbal art

When mortals become ‘equal’ to immortals: Death of a hero, death of a bridegroom Achilles as lyric hero in the songs of Sappho and Pindar Achilles as epic hero and the idea of total recall in song The Homeric Iliad and the glory of the unseasonal hero
