Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond

Valerie Mainz (PhD University College, University of London 1992) is the author of Days of Glory? Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). Between 1992 and 2018 she worked as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, at the University of Leeds.Emma Stafford (PhD London 1999) is Professor of Greek Culture 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: Ioannis DeligiannisPaul GwynneAnne-Sophie LaruelleAnnie Verbanck-PiérardJoanna WoodallMarc BizerRussell GoulbournePamina Fernández CamachoFilipa AraújoAlexandra EppingerValerie MainzManuel Caballero GonzálezTomas Macsotay

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Transmission of a Classical Tradition in Theory and PracticeValerie Mainz and Emma StaffordPart 1 Applying the Model of the Princely Ruler1 The Choice-Making Hercules as an Exemplary Model for Alessandro and Federico Gonzaga and the Fifteenth-Century Latin Translation of Prodikos’ Tale of Herakles by Sassolo da PratoIoannis Deligiannis2 Macte animis, Caesar, nostros imitare labores: Hercules and the Holy Roman EmpirePaul Gwynne3 Hercules in the Art of Flemish Tapestry (1450–1556)Anne-Sophie Laruelle4 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and Hercules: A Political Emblem between Tradition and InnovationAnnie Verbanck-Piérard5 Monstrorum domitori: Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by José I, King of Portugal (1714–77)Filipa Medeiros AraújoPart 2 Exploiting the Model6 What Identity for Hercules Gaditanus? The Role of the Gaditanian Hercules in the Invention of National History in Late Medieval and Early Modern SpainPamina Fernández Camacho7 Monstrous Masculinity? Hendrick Goltzius’ Engraving of The Great Hercules 1589Joanna Woodall8 Literary Hard Labour: Lyric and Autobiography in Joachim du BellayMarc Bizer9 Voltaire’s HerculesRussell GoulbournePart 3 Challenging the Model in the Later Eighteenth Century10 Hercules the Younger: Heroic Allusions in Late Eighteenth Century British Political CartoonsAlexandra Eppinger11 Hercules, His Club and the French RevolutionValerie Mainz12 New Representations of Hercules’ Madness in Modernity: The Depiction of Hercules and LichasManuel Caballero González13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical BodyTomas MacsotayIndex