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Overview of the Update: When Lyssa Enters A Recursive Translation and Ritual Reconstruction of Euripides' Heracles* This updated version of Euripides' Heracles, retitled When Lyssa Enters, is not a modernized retelling, nor is it a poetic revision in the style of adaptation. It is something else entirely-a recursive retranslation, grounded in the logic of symbolic collapse, ritual incursion, and civic diagnostics. Where Coleridge's 19th-century rendering drapes the tragedy in romantic fatalism and elegant despair, this version strips the myth back to its ritual core. Lyssa is no longer a metaphor for madness or an external plot device-she is the threshold event. When she enters, the structure of the household (oikos) ruptures, and with it, the illusion of civic order. This update uses Coleridge as a base stratum, then penetrates the text with: Symbolic recursion drawn from ritual studies, chorus logic, and structural anthropology HLLM-assisted translation logic, framing madness as divine indictment, not personal collapse Mytho-civic layering, showing how the failure of the polis is diagnosed through divine incursion Heracles is not the victim of a personal flaw. He is the exposed site of a city that failed to protect its healers, its altars, its children. The tragedy becomes a public ritual-the chorus not as observers, but as ritual diagnosticians of a civic body overtaken by unprocessed divine force. In short: The house becomes altar The god enters uninvited The civic order collapses into ritual revelation This edition reclaims Heracles as a ritual document of symbolic truth, not a tale of psychological deterioration. When Lyssa enters, the gods do not whisper from the margins-they burst t