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Herakles
Emma Stafford.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- xxvi, 302 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
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- Subjects
- Series
- Contents
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- Telling the story
- Synopsis of the myth
- Explaining Herakles
- Contexts and sources
- Overview
- 1. Monsters And The Hero I: The Twelve Labours
- strong man figure and monster-fighting
- Development of the canon of labours
- Individual labours
- Overview
- 2. Monsters And The Hero II: Other Battles
- wealth of opponents
- Early exploits
- Strong men and transgressors
- Strange beasts
- Overview
- 3. Tragic Hero
- complex character
- Early tragedy
- Sophokles: death and deification
- Euripides: madness and family values
- Visual reflections of tragedy
- Roman adaptations
- Overview
- 4. Vice Or Virtue Incarnate
- From monster-slaying to comedy, philosophy and romance
- comic hero
- Herakles intellectualized
- romantic hero
- Overview
- 5. Political Herakles
- art of political legitimation
- Herakles as ancestor and ideal ruler
- Herakles the founder
- Tyranny and democracy at Athens
- Overview
- 6. Worship Of The Hero-God
- Herakles heros-theos
- Rituals and remains
- Roman cult of Hercules
- Overview
- 7. Post-Classical Variations
- afterlife of a hero
- Herakles/Hercules and the Christians
- Telling Hercules' story I: Renaissance literature
- Hercules' image reborn: art from the Renaissance onwards
- Herculean politics
- From monarch to revolutionary: Hercules in France
- Telling Hercules' story II: literature from the seventeenth century on
- Hercules the movie star
- Conclusion: Herakles/Hercules now.
- Other information
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
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- 9780415300674 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415300673 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415300681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415300681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780203152454 (ebook)
- 020315245X (ebook)
- Identifying numbers
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- LCCN: 2011023977
- OCLC: 731192033
- OCLC: 731192033
