Herakles and Hercules: exploring a Graeco-Roman divinity

Rawlings, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9627-7367 and Bowden, Hugh 2005. Herakles and Hercules: exploring a Graeco-Roman divinity. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.

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Abstract

Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous labours, wanderer, liberator, madman and murderer of kin, Herakles-Hercules has retained his fascination down to the present. 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 religion,

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
Publisher:	The Classical Press of Wales
ISBN:	9781905125050
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Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3872

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