The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception

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The Hero's Life Choice. Studies on Heracles at the Crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and Their Reception is written by Malcolm Davies and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004678956 (ISBN 10) and 9789004678958 (ISBN 13).

Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’