The Oxford Handbook of Heracles
"The first half of the volume is devoted to the exposition of the ancient evidence, literary and iconographic, for the traditions of Heracles' life and deeds. After a chapter each on the hero's childhood and his madness, the canonical cause of his Twelve Labors, each of the Labors the...
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| Format: | Book |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
[2021]
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004834129708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | "The first half of the volume is devoted to the exposition of the ancient evidence, literary and iconographic, for the traditions of Heracles' life and deeds. After a chapter each on the hero's childhood and his madness, the canonical cause of his Twelve Labors, each of the Labors themselves receives detailed treatment in a dedicated chapter. The "Parerga" or "Side-Labors" are then treated in a similar level of detail in seven further chapters. In the second half, the Heracles tradition is analysed from a range of thematic perspectives. After consideration of the contrasting projections of the figure across the major literary genres, epic, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and in the iconographic register, a number of his myth-cycle's diverse fils rouges are pursued."-- Oxford University Press |
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| Physical Description: | XXXI, 571 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas |
| ISBN: | 9780190650988 |
