| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 360 pages) |
| Series |
Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume 18 |
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Metaforms ; v. 18.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Arlene Allan -- Herakles, 'Christ-Curious' Greeks and Revelation 5 / Arlene Allan -- The Tides of Virtue and Vice: Augustine's Response to Stoic Herakles / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Exemplum virtutis for Christian Emperors: the Role of Herakles/ Hercules in Late Antique Imperial Representation / Alexandra Eppinger -- Herculean Centos: Myth, Polemics, and the Crucified Hero in Late Antiquity / Brian P. Sowers -- Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and Pathopoeia in George of Pisidia's Heraklias / Andrew Mellas -- Herakles in Byzantium: a (Neo)Platonic Perspective / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Dante's Hercules / Giampiero Scafoglio -- Hercules in the hypogeum at the Via Dino Compagni, Rome / Gail Tatham -- The Constellation of Hercules and His Struggle with the Nemean Lion on Two Romanesque Reliefs from Split Cathedral / Ivana Čapeta Rakić -- From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade of San Marco / Lenia Kouneni -- Transformations of Herculean Fortitude in Florence / Thomas J. Sienkewicz -- Ovid's Hercules in 1497: a Greek Hero in the Translation of the Metamorphoses by Giovanni Bonsignori and in His Woodcuts / Giuseppe Capriotti -- Wearing the Hero on Your Sleeve: Piecing Together the Materials of the Heraklean Myth in Late-Roman Egypt / Cary MacMahon -- Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of Buddha / Karl Galinsky -- Conclusion / Arlene Allan |
| Summary |
"Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the first Apologists to the Quattrocento explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe. Each chapter takes a particular literary or visual incarnation, grappling with the question of the hero's significance within the early Church, in less formal contexts, and beyond Christendom in his unexpected role as Buddha's companion in Gandharan art. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent role of Herakles-Hercules in western culture up to the present day, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero's perennial appeal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Heracles (Greek mythological character)
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Hercules (Roman mythological character)
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Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Art
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Hercules (Roman mythological character) -- Art
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Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- In literature
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Hercules (Roman mythological character) -- In literature
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Heracles (Greek mythological character) |
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Hercules (Roman mythological character) |
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Civilization, Classical -- Influence
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Christianity and other religions -- Greek.
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Christianity and other religions -- Roman.
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Christianity
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Civilization, Classical -- Influence
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Greeks -- Religion
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Interfaith relations
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Literature
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Romans -- Religion
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allan, Arlene, editor.
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Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva, editor
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Stafford, Emma, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019051123 |
| ISBN |
900442153X |
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9789004421530 |
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