The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond /
The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, raising questions about the hero's role as model of the...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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Metaforms ;
20.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.
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Call Number: BL820.H5
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The Transmission of a Classical Tradition in Theory and Practice
- Valerie Mainz and Emma Stafford
- Part 1 Applying the Model of the Princely Ruler
- 1 The Choice-Making Hercules as an Exemplary Model for Alessandro and Federico Gonzaga and the Fifteenth-Century Latin Translation of Prodikos' Tale of Herakles by Sassolo da Prato
- Ioannis Deligiannis
- 2 Macte animis, Caesar, nostros imitare labores : Hercules and the Holy Roman Empire
- Paul Gwynne
- 3 Hercules in the Art of Flemish Tapestry (1450-1556)
- Anne-Sophie Laruelle
- 4 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and Hercules: A Political Emblem between Tradition and Innovation
- Annie Verbanck-Piérard
- 5 Monstrorum domitori : Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by José I , King of Portugal (1714-77)
- Filipa Medeiros Araújo
- Part 2 Exploiting the Model
- 6 What Identity for Hercules Gaditanus ? The Role of the Gaditanian Hercules in the Invention of National History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
- Pamina Fernández Camacho
- 7 Monstrous Masculinity? Hendrick Goltzius' Engraving of The Great Hercules 1589
- Joanna Woodall
- 8 Literary Hard Labour: Lyric and Autobiography in Joachim du Bellay
- Marc Bizer
- 9 Voltaire's Hercules
- Russell Goulbourne
- Part 3 Challenging the Model in the Later Eighteenth Century
- 10 Hercules the Younger: Heroic Allusions in Late Eighteenth Century British Political Cartoons
- Alexandra Eppinger
- 11 Hercules, His Club and the French Revolution
- Valerie Mainz
- 12 New Representations of Hercules' Madness in Modernity: The Depiction of Hercules and Lichas
- Manuel Caballero González
- 13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical Body
- Tomas Macsotay
- Index.