Question
In one work, a gay photographer born with wings falls in love with this character as a teenager, then meets him again years later and follows him and his new lover Ancash to a Peruvian volcano. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character. A 2021 “playbook” that calls this character “outsize and outside the civilization he’s saving” adapts an earlier play in which he kills Lycus for trying to murder four characters, only to murder them himself.
ANSWER: Heracles [or Herakles; or Hercules] (Heracles kills his wife and children.)
[10m] This author used Stesichorus’s poetry as the basis for Autobiography of Red, which reimagines Geryon’s relationship with Heracles, and published a collection of translated fragments by Sappho.
ANSWER: Anne Carson
[10e] Carson’s H of H Playbook adapts this Greek author’s play Heracles. Carson’s collection Grief Lessons collects plays by this author of The Bacchae.
ANSWER: Euripides
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