Resilience and Euripides’ Heracles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia Pertsinidis (0000-0003-2157-4735, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h10010044 |
| OpenAlex | W3135748338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
In the midst of the current global health crisis, there is ongoing discussion about the need to cultivate resilience, that is, the ability to survive tragic events, adversity and prolonged stress. This paper engages in a reading of Euripides’ Heracles, a bold and disturbing tragedy in which the eponymous hero suffers several striking reversals of fortune. After being victimized by Hera and unwittingly destroying his family, Heracles resolves to commit suicide. Only two hundred lines later, he resolves to continue to live. This change in outlook is remarkable given the traumatic events that he has just suffered. How does Heracles find the strength to endure? What factors bring about this positive change in Heracles’ perspective? This paper will draw on findings from modern resilience research to shed light on Heracles’ decision. It will discuss the complex combination of internal and external factors that play into Heracles’ change of mind. I argue that the processes that Euripides portrays in his play dramatize many of the protective factors that are said to promote resilience in real life
Aesthetics · Art · Commit · Environmental ethics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Philosophy · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology
The Art of Euripides
Researching and theorizing resilience across cultures and contexts
Disgrace, grief and other ills
Affirming Human Bonds in a Time of Crisis – A Central Action of Euripides' Heracles
The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles
Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy
(Unity and Meaning of Euripides' Heracles *)
Herakles and Hercules
Basic Greek Values in Euripides' Hecuba and Hercules Furens
Herakles
Heracles as Tragic Hero
Groaning Tears
"Heracles" and Euripidean Tragedy
Theseus And Athens
Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms
The social ecology of resilience
Systemic resilience
Resilience Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |