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The Beast Initiate: The Lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of History, 2019
The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Carl Anton Paul Ruck
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The Youthful Heracles-Melqart in Tyre. Choosing a Visual Language for a Phoenician God in the Hellenistic Period

open access: yesMythos, 2022
The Hellenistic silver coins of Tyre were widely used and accepted in the Southern Levant. They depicted the head of the youthful and beefy Heracles-Melqart on the obverse.
Achim Lichtenberger
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Teacher and student in ancient pedagogy: the dialectic of love and death

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2022
Introduction. This article aims to compare two seemingly different patterns of attitude towards such a significant figure as a teacher. Considering it was the Greeks who have established the entire prototype for such a relationship in our culture it ...
M. P. Sorokina
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Vivir con honor o con honor morir. La reelaboración de una disyuntiva heroica en el Heracles de Eurípides

open access: yesÁgora, 2019
En Heracles de Eurípides los personajes (la familia de Heracles en la primera parte y el propio Heracles en la segunda) tienen que decidir, ante una situación de infor-tunio, si aceptan la muerte o resisten la vida.
M. Carmen Encinas Reguero
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Adana Müzesi’nden Cenaze Takıları ve Aplikler / Funeral Jewelry and Appliques from the Adana Museum

open access: yesArkhaia Anatolika, 2021
The burial traditions that began as a special farewell ceremony in the Sanidar Cave were shaped around the thought that the end was actually a beginning and thusly retained their importance in both pagan and theistic religions.
Çilem UYGUN
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Heracles Lacedaemonius : the political dimensions of Sophocles Trachiniae and Euripides Heracles

open access: yesDialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 1995
Tragedy was a frequent vehicle for the allegorical interpretation of historical events, although the language and situations might be employed allusively rather than directly.
Michael Vickers
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Melqart-Herakles matando al Toro Celeste en una placa ebúrnea de Medellín

open access: yesArchivo Español de Arqueología, 2002
En la necrópolis tartésica orientalizante de Medellín ha aparecido una placa con una escena de tauromaquia fechada hacia el 600 a.C. con un personaje con gorro frigio que apuntilla a un toro. Su análisis iconográfico permite interpretarla como un posible
Martín Almagro-Gorbea
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Origin of Spartan kings from Heracles

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2018
The descent of Spartan kings from Heracles is considered to be the secondary myth interpretation about the Return of the Heracledae. It was associated with Dorian conquest of the Peloponnese in the ancient tradition (Tyrtaeus, Pindar, Herodotus ...
Alexey Leonidovich Darvin
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The Imitatio Alexandri of Hannibal Barca

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2020
The following paper seeks to analyze the linkage of Hannibal Barca with the figure of Alexander the Great. To achieve that objective, the Macedonian model will be stratified in several stages in which he could represent a model of excellence.
Christian SAN JOSÉ CAMPOS
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Herakles jako protoplasta macedońskiej rodziny królewskiej

open access: yesKlio, 2015
Heracles as the Primogenitor of the Macedonian Royal Family (Summary) Alexander the Great and his successors often referred to Heracles as the primogenitor of the Macedonian royal family.
Sławomir Sprawski
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