The exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond /

The exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond / / edited by Valerie Mainz, Emma Stafford.

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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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Superior document:Metaforms ; Volume 20
TeilnehmendeR:
Mainz, Valérie,
Stafford, Emma,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Metaforms ; Volume 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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