{"product_id":"the-heros-life-choice-studies-on-heracles-at-the-crossroads-the-judgement-of-paris-and-their-reception-verbalising-the-visual-and-visualising-the-verbal-9789004678941","title":"The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception: ‘Verbalising the Visual and Visualising the Verbal’","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Preface   List of Illustrations   Editions and Translations, Restricted to Heracles at the Crossroads      Part 1: Heracles at the Crossroads   A Note on Nomenclature      1 Visual Art    Introduction    Appendix: Reynolds’ Parody Itself Parodied    Transition    A Precocious Heracles at the Crossroads    The Encounter as Dream-Vision    Heracles as Christ    Christ as Heracles    Variations on the Theme    Two Iconographically Eccentric Versions: Veronese and Dürer    Appendix: Georg Stiernhielm’s Hercules    Heracles at the Crossroads in Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Gardening      2 Music    Appendix: The Illustrations to Metastasio’s Libretto for Alcide Al Bivio      3 Literature and Drama    Prodicus and The Judgement of Paris    Appendix: DE SILENO ET CHROMI ET MNASYLO      4 Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled    Appendix: Andrew Marvell’s Upon Appleton House      5 Parody and Pastiche    Final Reflections on Prodicus’ Heracles at the Crossroads    Appendix: Panofsky’s Hercules Am Scheidewege    Endnote: The Absence of Visual Depictions of Heracles at the Crossroads from Antiquity      Part 2: The Judgement of Paris   A Note on Nomenclature      6 The Judgement of Paris: The Story’s Original Form    The Story’s Original Form      7 Medieval Literature and Art      8 Renaissance Art Onwards    Appendix: Raphael to Manet and Beyond      9 Literature and Drama      10 Music    Appendix: ‘The Frost, the Sun, and the Wind’      11 Parody and Pastiche    Endnote: Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress II: The Rake’s Levée    Postscript and Transition   Annex    1 Xenophon’s Memorabilia in Modern English Translation    2 Addison’s Translation of Heracles at the Crossroads    3 William Shenstone The Judgement of Hercules    4 Robert Lowth The Choice of Hercules    5 Georg Friedrich Handel The Choice of Hercules    6 James Beattie The Judgement of Paris    7 Thomas Parnell The Judgement of Paris    8 William Congreve Libretto for The Judgement of Paris    Richmond Lattimore Hercules at the Crossroads   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210871660887,"sku":"9789004678941","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-heros-life-choice-studies-on-heracles-at-the-crossroads-the-judgement-of-paris-and-their-reception-verbalising-the-visual-and-visualising-the-verbal-9789004678941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}