Herakles inside and outside the church : from the first apologists to the end of the Quattrocento
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Herakles inside and outside the church : from the first apologists to the end of the Quattrocento
(Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity, v. 18)
Brill, c2020
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Arlene Allan
Part 1: Making Connections: the Early Years
1 Herakles, 'Christ-Curious' Greeks and Revelation 5
Arlene Allan
2 The Tides of Virtue and Vice: Augustine's Response to Stoic Herakles
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Part 2: Appropriation: Verbal
3 Exemplum virtutis for Christian Emperors: the Role of Herakles/ Hercules in Late Antique Imperial Representation
Alexandra Eppinger
4 Herculean Centos: Myth, Polemics, and the Crucified Hero in Late Antiquity
Brian Sowers
5 Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and Pathopoeia in George of Pisidia's Heraklias
Andrew Mellas
6 Herakles in Byzantium: a (Neo)Platonic Perspective
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
7 Dante's Hercules
Giampiero Scafoglio
Part 3: Appropriation: Visual
8 Hercules in the hypogeum at the Via Dino Compagni, Rome
Gail Tatham
9 The Constellation of Hercules and His Struggle with the Nemean Lion on Two Romanesque Reliefs from Split Cathedral
Ivana Capeta Rakic
10 From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Facade of San Marco
Lenia Kouneni
11 Transformations of Herculean Fortitude in Florence
Thomas J. Sienkewicz
12 Ovid's Hercules in 1497: a Greek Hero in the Translation of the Metamorphoses by Giovanni dei Bonsignori and in His Woodcuts
Giuseppe Capriotti
part 4: Beyond the Church
13 Wearing the Hero on Your Sleeve: Piecing Together the Materials of the Heraklean Myth in Late-Roman Egypt
Cary MacMahon
14 Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of Buddha
Karl Galinsky
Conclusion
Arlene Allan
Index
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