{"product_id":"the-exemplary-hercules-from-the-renaissance-to-the-enlightenment-and-beyond-9789004434868","title":"The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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-Piérard    5 Monstrorum domitori: Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by José I, King of Portugal (1714–77)   Filipa Medeiros Araújo    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 Fernández 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 González    13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical Body   Tomas Macsotay    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210803962199,"sku":"9789004434868","price":136.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-exemplary-hercules-from-the-renaissance-to-the-enlightenment-and-beyond-9789004434868","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}