{"product_id":"herakles-inside-and-outside-the-church-from-the-first-apologists-to-the-end-of-the-quattrocento-9789004421523","title":"Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: From the first Apologists to the end of the Quattrocento","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerakles 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The work starts with a great foreword and introduction by Emma Stafford and Arlene Allan, respectively, who set the stage in summarizing Herakles regarding his twelve labors, the earliest sources on him, and the current state of the field regarding his reception. This volume is one of four to be published by the Metaforms series and Brill on the reception of Herakles-Hercules, and the contributors do a good job demonstrating the need for such scholarship. (...) it is a great contribution for graduate students and scholars working on the change and transformation of Classical Antiquity in Late Antiquity. It provides several case studies on how the legacy of Herakles was reworked in different contexts.\" - Paul A. Brazinski, Saint Elizabeth University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  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 Čapeta Rakić    10 From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210792264023,"sku":"9789004421523","price":146.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/herakles-inside-and-outside-the-church-from-the-first-apologists-to-the-end-of-the-quattrocento-9789004421523","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}