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Herkules
- Author(s):
- Joachim Berger (see profile)
- Date:
- 2012
- Group(s):
- Early Modern History, History
- Subject(s):
- Courts, Collective memory, Heroes, Hero worship, Mythology, Classical, Hercules (Roman mythological character), Heracles (Greek mythological character)
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Lieux de mémoire, Sites of memory, Heroes, hero-worship, Early modern European history, media history, hercules, Herakles, Court societies
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/g8jf-x173
- Abstract:
- Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by a distinct community of memory - the European princely courts - during a particular period, from the Renaissance to late Baroque. This topos functioned as a reference point for certain concepts of value that were historically framed - as a topos of memory.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 9 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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