Herakles and Hercules
Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity
edited by Louis Rawlings and Hugh Bowden
(Hardback) (Published)
(December 2005)
ISBN: 9781905125050
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $80.00
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Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous labours, wanderer, liberator, madman and murderer of kin, Herakles-Hercules has retained his fascination down to the present. The eleven new studies in this volume explore why this figure appealed so widely in Antiquity. They examine his role in ancient myth and philosophy, drama and art, as well as in politics and propaganda, warfare and religion.
Introduction - Hugh Bowden and Louis Rawlings Herakles, Herodotos and the Persian Wars - Hugh Bowden The family of Herakles in Attika - Michael Jameson Herakles and his 'girl': Athena, heroism and beyond - Susan Deacy Herakles re-dressed: gender, clothing and the construction of a Greek hero - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Vice or virtue? Herakles and the art of allegory - Emma Stafford The magic knot of Herakles, the propaganda of Alexander the Great and Tomb II at Vergina - Ann. M. Nicgorski Aspects of the cult of Hercules in central Italy - Guy Bradley Hannibal and Hercules - Louis Rawlings Hercules Furens and Nero: the didactic purpose of Senecan tragedy - Eleanor Regina Okell Propagating power: Hercules as an example for second-century emperors - Oliver Hekster The emperors' new names: Diocletian Jovius and Maximian Herculius - Roger Rees
- Edited by Hugh Bowden
- Edited by Louis Rawlings
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