Hercules, traditionally considered the great hero of the Greeks, the symbol of salvation and the incarnation of masculinity, receives a strong «de-heroizing» treatment in Ovid’s Letter from Deianira to Hercules, a work in which a whole passage paints him completely as a cross-dresser. We refer to the passage that narrated Hercules’s time as a slave (and lover) of Omphale in Lydia. In this article we see how Deianira utilizes the standards of the model of ideal masculinity to ridicule her husband by reminding him of the times he did not live up to that model, and applies to Hercules practically all of the elegiac code of the lover as a servant at the orders of his dominaHércules, considerado tradicionalmente el gran héroe de los griegos, sím...
Since Greek and Roman Antiquity Hercules has staying power as the embodiment of heroism constituted ...
Some questions were raised during the study of the myth of Heracles/Hercules, such as which qualitie...
Au croisement des études culturelles, de la comparaison différentielle et des études genre et queer,...
Ovid dedicated almost all of the ninth book of the Metamorphoses to Hercules, relating the main even...
This paper will focus in particular on the myth of Hercules’ enslavement to Omphale which features ...
Hercules was an exemplar of moral and civic virtue when represented in Italian Renaissance art. How ...
In 17-18th plays regarding Hercules’ death the character of Iole is deeply reinvented compared to an...
The critics who wrote about Hercules Furens are either convinced that the main character is a perse...
Resumen: las Heroidas son la única colección de epístolas ficcionales sobre temas mitológicos, atrib...
The author analyses the different treatment of the figure of the myth of Hercules in two historic wo...
Las proezas de Heracles eran conocidas en Grecia central desde época arcaica; suele estructurarse en...
Hércules es en uno de los héroes mitológicos con mayor difusión de todos los tiempos. Sus hazañas, r...
This thesis aims to shed new light on the myth of Hercules in medieval texts, by studying its source...
This paper proposes the hypothesis that Ovid deconstructs Aeneas in the Letter of Hypermestra to Lyn...
Le Rane : Collana di Studi e Testi. Studi ; 55 - El teatro clásico en el marco de la cultura griega ...
Since Greek and Roman Antiquity Hercules has staying power as the embodiment of heroism constituted ...
Some questions were raised during the study of the myth of Heracles/Hercules, such as which qualitie...
Au croisement des études culturelles, de la comparaison différentielle et des études genre et queer,...
Ovid dedicated almost all of the ninth book of the Metamorphoses to Hercules, relating the main even...
This paper will focus in particular on the myth of Hercules’ enslavement to Omphale which features ...
Hercules was an exemplar of moral and civic virtue when represented in Italian Renaissance art. How ...
In 17-18th plays regarding Hercules’ death the character of Iole is deeply reinvented compared to an...
The critics who wrote about Hercules Furens are either convinced that the main character is a perse...
Resumen: las Heroidas son la única colección de epístolas ficcionales sobre temas mitológicos, atrib...
The author analyses the different treatment of the figure of the myth of Hercules in two historic wo...
Las proezas de Heracles eran conocidas en Grecia central desde época arcaica; suele estructurarse en...
Hércules es en uno de los héroes mitológicos con mayor difusión de todos los tiempos. Sus hazañas, r...
This thesis aims to shed new light on the myth of Hercules in medieval texts, by studying its source...
This paper proposes the hypothesis that Ovid deconstructs Aeneas in the Letter of Hypermestra to Lyn...
Le Rane : Collana di Studi e Testi. Studi ; 55 - El teatro clásico en el marco de la cultura griega ...
Since Greek and Roman Antiquity Hercules has staying power as the embodiment of heroism constituted ...
Some questions were raised during the study of the myth of Heracles/Hercules, such as which qualitie...
Au croisement des études culturelles, de la comparaison différentielle et des études genre et queer,...