TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schierl, Petra
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Der Heldenkörper in Szene gesetzt
BT  - die Muskeln des Hercules in Epos und Elegie
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - Taking its cue from the portrayal of Hercules as muscleman in both films and ancient sculpture this article turns to poetry as a verbal art and examines when and how the hero's body comes into focus in Roman epic and elegy. It is argued that moments of crisis contrasting Hercules’ state in a given situation to his former heroic achievements give rise to representations of his body, while epic fight scenes rather draw attention to the bodies of his inferior opponents. The body is described through references to different body parts, qualified by attributes as masculine in elegiac contexts. A somewhat exotic word as tori suffices to highlight the hero’s muscular body.
KW  - Hercules
KW  - Roman epic
KW  - love elegy
KW  - body
KW  - heroism
KW  - masculinity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.182
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 31
EP  - 68
ER  -