Der Heldenkörper in Szene gesetzt
- 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.
| Author details: | Petra SchierlGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.182 |
| ISSN: | 2364-7612 |
| Title of parent work (German): | thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde |
| Subtitle (German): | die Muskeln des Hercules in Epos und Elegie |
| Editor(s): | Annemarie Ambühl |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/11/25 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2020/12/14 |
| Tag: | Hercules; Roman epic; body; heroism; love elegy; masculinity |
| Volume: | 2020 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Number of pages: | 38 |
| First page: | 31 |
| Last Page: | 68 |
| Source: | thersites 11 (2020). - 31-38 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
| DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / thersites, ISSN 2364-7612 / thersites Vol. 11 |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
