The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond
Published on 30. July 2020
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-90-04-43486-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 princely ruler, and examining how the worthiness of this exemplary type came, in time, to be subverted. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring 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, but changingly problematic, appeal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43486-8 (9789004434868)
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Valerie Mainz (PhD University College, University of London 1992) is the author of Days of Glory? Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). Between 1992 and 2018 she worked as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, at the University of Leeds.
Emma Stafford (PhD London 1999) is Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Leeds. She is author of Worshipping Virtues (Classical Press of Wales/Duckworth 2000) and Herakles (Routledge 2012), and coordinator of the Leeds Hercules Project (https://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/).
Contributors are:
Ioannis Deligiannis
Paul Gwynne
Anne-Sophie Laruelle
Annie Verbanck-Pierard
Joanna Woodall
Marc Bizer
Russell Goulbourne
Pamina Fernandez Camacho
Filipa Araujo
Alexandra Eppinger
Valerie Mainz
Manuel Caballero Gonzalez
Tomas Macsotay
Emma Stafford (PhD London 1999) is Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Leeds. She is author of Worshipping Virtues (Classical Press of Wales/Duckworth 2000) and Herakles (Routledge 2012), and coordinator of the Leeds Hercules Project (https://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/).
Contributors are:
Ioannis Deligiannis
Paul Gwynne
Anne-Sophie Laruelle
Annie Verbanck-Pierard
Joanna Woodall
Marc Bizer
Russell Goulbourne
Pamina Fernandez Camacho
Filipa Araujo
Alexandra Eppinger
Valerie Mainz
Manuel Caballero Gonzalez
Tomas Macsotay
Content
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-Pierard
5 Monstrorum domitori: Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by Jose I, King of Portugal (1714-77)
?Filipa Medeiros Araujo
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 Fernandez 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 Gonzalez
13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical Body
?Tomas Macsotay
Index
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-Pierard
5 Monstrorum domitori: Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by Jose I, King of Portugal (1714-77)
?Filipa Medeiros Araujo
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 Fernandez 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 Gonzalez
13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical Body
?Tomas Macsotay
Index