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Herakles and Hercules : exploring a Graeco-Roman divinity /
"Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. The eleven new studies in this volume explore why this figure appealed so widely in Antiquity. They examine his role in ancient myth and philosophy, drama and art, as well as in politics and propaganda, warfare and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea [Wales] : Oakville, CT :
Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States of America, the David Brown Book Co.,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Herakles, Herodotos and the Persian Wars / Hugh Bowden
- The family of Herakles in Attika / Michael Jameson
- Herakles and his "girl" : Athena, heroism and beyond / Susan Deacy
- Herakles re-dressed : gender, clothing and the construction of a Greek hero / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Vice or virtue? : Herakles and the art of allegory / Emma Stafford
- The magic knot of Herakles, the propaganda of Alexander the Great and Tomb II at Vergina / Ann M. Nicgorski
- Aspects of the cult of Hercules in central Italy / Guy Bradley
- Hannibal and Hercules / Louis Rawlings
- Hercules furens and Nero / Eleanor Regina OKell
- Propagating power : Hercules as an example for second-century emperors / Olivier Hekster
- The emperors' new names : Diocletian Jovis and Maximian Herculius / Roger Rees.