Herakles Inside and Outside the Church

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 Čapeta Rakić, Lenia Kouneni, Tom Sienkewicz, Giuseppe Capriotti, Cary MacMahon, Karl Galinksy.

"The work starts with a great foreword and introduction by Emma Stafford and Arlene Allan, respectively, who set the stage in summarizing Herakles regarding his twelve labors, the earliest sources on him, and the current state of the field regarding his reception. This volume is one of four to be published by the Metaforms series and Brill on the reception of Herakles-Hercules, and the contributors do a good job demonstrating the need for such scholarship. (...) it is a great contribution for graduate students and scholars working on the change and transformation of Classical Antiquity in Late Antiquity. It provides several case studies on how the legacy of Herakles was reworked in different contexts." - Paul A. Brazinski, Saint Elizabeth University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.21

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionArlene AllanPart 1: Making Connections: the Early Years1 Herakles, ‘Christ-Curious’ Greeks and Revelation 5Arlene Allan2 The Tides of Virtue and Vice: Augustine’s Response to Stoic HeraklesEva Anagnostou-LaoutidesPart 2: Appropriation: Verbal3 Exemplum virtutis for Christian Emperors: the Role of Herakles/ Hercules in Late Antique Imperial RepresentationAlexandra Eppinger4 Herculean Centos: Myth, Polemics, and the Crucified Hero in Late AntiquityBrian Sowers5 Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and Pathopoeia in George of Pisidia’s HerakliasAndrew Mellas6 Herakles in Byzantium: a (Neo)Platonic PerspectiveEva Anagnostou-Laoutides7 Dante’s HerculesGiampiero ScafoglioPart 3: Appropriation: Visual8 Hercules in the hypogeum at the Via Dino Compagni, RomeGail Tatham9 The Constellation of Hercules and His Struggle with the Nemean Lion on Two Romanesque Reliefs from Split CathedralIvana Čapeta Rakić10 From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade of San MarcoLenia Kouneni11 Transformations of Herculean Fortitude in FlorenceThomas J. Sienkewicz12 Ovid’s Hercules in 1497: a Greek Hero in the Translation of the Metamorphoses by Giovanni dei Bonsignori and in His WoodcutsGiuseppe Capriottipart 4: Beyond the Church13 Wearing the Hero on Your Sleeve: Piecing Together the Materials of the Heraklean Myth in Late-Roman EgyptCary MacMahon14 Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of BuddhaKarl GalinskyConclusionArlene AllanIndex