Herakles Inside and Outside the Church

From the First Apologists to the End of the Quattrocento
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42152-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Metaforms

Herakles 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allan, Arlene L.

Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva

Stafford, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

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 Capeta Rakic

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

Über Autor(innen)

Arlene Allan (PhD Exeter 2004) is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is co-author of A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Wiley Blackwell 2005; revised 2014) with Ian C. Storey and sole author of Hermes (Routledge 2018).

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (PhD Kent 2002) is Associate Professor in Ancient History at Macquarie University, New South Wales and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021). She is author of Eros and Ritual (Gorgias Press, 2005; reprinted 2013) and Models of Kingship (Routledge 2017).

Emma Stafford (PhD London 1999) is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. She is author of Worshipping Virtues (Classical Press of Wales/Duckworth 2000) and Herakles (Routledge 2012), and coordinator of the Leeds Hercules Project (https://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/).

Contributors are: Arlene Allan, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Alexandra Eppinger, Brian Sowers, Andrew Mellas, Giampiero Scafoglio, Gail Tatham, Ivana Capeta Rakic, Lenia Kouneni, Tom Sienkewicz, Giuseppe Capriotti, Cary MacMahon, Karl Galinksy.