Herakles

ISBN-13: 9780415300674 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str.

Emma Stafford

Opis

Over the last thirty years various aspects of Herakles' myth, representations in literature and art, and his cult have been the subject of numerous monographs and articles. This book provides an accessible account, pulling together all the various aspects of past research, highlighting areas of consensus and dissent. The book is suitable for students of Classics and related disciplines, as well as the general reader.

Spis treści

Foreword: Why Herakles?  Part 1: Why Herakles?  Introducing Herakles  Part 2: Key Themes  1. Monsters and the hero I: The Labours  2. Monsters and the hero II: Other battles  3. The tragic hero  4. Vice or virtue incarnate  5. Political Herakles  6. Worship of the hero-god  Part 3: Herakles Afterwards  7. Post-classical variations

O autorze

Emma Stafford is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching interests lie in Greek cultural history, especially religion, myth and art. She is author of Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece (2000), and Life, Myth and Art in Ancient Greece (2004), and co-editor of Personification in the Greek World (2005). She has also written numerous articles on Greek religion and iconography.