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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Transmission of a Classical Tradition in Theory and Practice -- Valerie Mainz and Emma Stafford -- Part 1 Applying the Model of the Princely Ruler -- 1 The Choice-Making Hercules as an Exemplary Model for Alessandro and Federico Gonzaga and the Fifteenth-Century Latin Translation of Prodikos' Tale of Herakles by Sassolo da Prato -- Ioannis Deligiannis -- 2 Macte animis, Caesar, nostros imitare labores : Hercules and the Holy Roman Empire -- Paul Gwynne -- 3 Hercules in the Art of Flemish Tapestry (1450-1556) -- Anne-Sophie Laruelle -- 4 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and Hercules: A Political Emblem between Tradition and Innovation -- Annie Verbanck-Piérard -- 5 Monstrorum domitori : Emblematic and Allegorical Representations of the Herculean task Accomplished by José I , King of Portugal (1714-77) -- Filipa Medeiros Araújo -- Part 2 Exploiting the Model -- 6 What Identity for Hercules Gaditanus ? The Role of the Gaditanian Hercules in the Invention of National History in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain -- Pamina Fernández Camacho -- 7 Monstrous Masculinity? Hendrick Goltzius' Engraving of The Great Hercules 1589 -- Joanna Woodall -- 8 Literary Hard Labour: Lyric and Autobiography in Joachim du Bellay -- Marc Bizer -- 9 Voltaire's Hercules -- Russell Goulbourne -- Part 3 Challenging the Model in the Later Eighteenth Century -- 10 Hercules the Younger: Heroic Allusions in Late Eighteenth Century British Political Cartoons -- Alexandra Eppinger -- 11 Hercules, His Club and the French Revolution -- Valerie Mainz -- 12 New Representations of Hercules' Madness in Modernity: The Depiction of Hercules and Lichas -- Manuel Caballero González -- 13 How Hercules Lost His Poise: Reason, Youth and Fellowship in the Heroic Neoclassical Body -- Tomas Macsotay -- Index.