00§1. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours is based on a course that I have taught at Harvard University since the late 1970s. This course, “Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization,” now renamed “The Ancient Greek Hero,” centers on selected readings of texts, all translated from the original Greek into English. The texts include the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey; the Hesiodic Theogony and Works and Days; selected songs of Sappho and Pindar; selections from the Histories of Herodotus; the Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides of Aeschylus; the Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles; the Hippolytus and Bacchae of Euripides; and the Apology and Phaedo of Plato. Also included are selections from Pausanias and Philostratus. These texts are supplemented by illustrations, mostly images of Athenian vase paintings, which can be found in Hour 7.