Emma Stafford

Herakles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Collating research over the past thirty years, Emma Stafford the various aspects of Herakle's myth, representations in literature and art, monographs and articles, and presents a hugely accessible account of this legendary figure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136519260
• Artikelnr.: 38271431

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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