“Have you forgotten your labors so far?” -Theseus to Heracles, Euripides’s Heracles   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’ Heracles, instead of going about his labors as penance for murdering his wife … Continue reading Iraq’s Labors Lost