Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: From the First Apologists to the End of the Quattrocento

Product Description
Herakles Inside and Outside the Church explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe, grappling with the question of his significance in the post-classical world.
Review
"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
About the Author
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 Rakic, Lenia Kouneni, Tom Sienkewicz, Giuseppe Capriotti, Cary MacMahon, Karl Galinksy.