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Cover illustration: Statue of Hercules, detail of pulpit by Giovanni Pisano (c.1310) in Pisa Cathedral. © 2019. Photo Scala, Florence.

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Herakles Inside and Outside the Church

From the first Apologists to the end of the Quattrocento

Series:  Metaforms, Volume: 18
Cover Herakles Inside and Outside the Church
E-Book ISBN:
9789004421530
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
29 Jan 2020
  • Subjects
    • Art History
      • General
    • Classical Studies
      • Classical Tradition & Reception Studies
    • History
      • Medieval History
      • Byzantine Studies
Front Matter
Copyright page
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Making Connections: the Early Years
Chapter 1 Herakles, ‘Christ-Curious’ Greeks and Revelation 5
Chapter 2 The Tides of Virtue and Vice: Augustine’s Response to Stoic Herakles
Part 2 Appropriation: Verbal
Chapter 3 Exemplum virtutis for Christian Emperors: the Role of Herakles/Hercules in Late Antique Imperial Representation
Chapter 4 Herculean Centos: Myth, Polemics, and the Crucified Hero in Late Antiquity
Chapter 5 Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and Pathopoeia in George of Pisidia’s Heraklias
Chapter 6 Herakles in Byzantium: a (Neo)Platonic Perspective
Chapter 7 Dante’s Hercules
Part 3 Appropriation: Visual
Chapter 8 Hercules in the hypogeum at the Via Dino Compagni, Rome
Chapter 9 The Constellation of Hercules and His Struggle with the Nemean Lion on Two Romanesque Reliefs from Split Cathedral
Chapter 10 From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade of San Marco
Chapter 11 Transformations of Herculean Fortitude in Florence
Chapter 12 Ovid’s Hercules in 1497: a Greek Hero in the Translation of the Metamorphoses by Giovanni Bonsignori and in His Woodcuts
Part 4 Beyond the Church
Chapter 13 Wearing the Hero on Your Sleeve: Piecing Together the Materials of the Heraklean Myth in Late-Roman Egypt
Chapter 14 Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of Buddha
Conclusion
Back Matter
Index Locorum
Index of Terms

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