The Ruler Between Two Columns: Imperial Aspirations and Poltical Iconography from the Emperor Charles V to William of Orange. [From: Emblem Studies in Honor of Peter M. Daly, Saecula Spiritalia 41].

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Published by Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 2002

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pp. 143-168, 9 fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author. - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: Symbolic images of the ruler between, or by, two columns go back to the famous impresa of the Emperor Charles V and the motto Plus ultra (More beyond). It had been devised for him about 1516 by the humanist scholar Ludovico Marliano. It was an ingenious adaptation of the story of the pillars of Hercules which marked the bounds of the classical world. In the well-known scene of the The Choice of Hercules the hero had opted for a life of virtue and labour. For the tenth of his twelve Labours, the securing of the oxen of King Geryon, he had to sail along the river Okeanos to the extreme west. There he set up the two pillars and, tired by his exertions, he inscribed them with the words Ne plus ultra (Not any further). These pillars were afterwards identified with the mountains on either side of the Straits of Gibraltar, at Calpe (Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta), or at Gades (Cadiz). The principal classical authorities for the legend are Apollodorus (II, 5, 10), Diodorus Siculus (IV, 18) and Pomponius Mela (I, 5, 3). - Karl Josef Höltgen (* 2. November 1927 in Haan, Rheinland; 25. August 2011 in Erlangen) war ein deutscher Literaturwissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Title
The Ruler Between Two Columns: Imperial Aspirations and Poltical Iconography from the Emperor Charles V to William of Orange. [From: Emblem Studies in Honor of Peter M. Daly, Saecula Spiritalia 41].
Author
Höltgen, Karl Josef:
Publisher
Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner
Publication year
2002
Condition
Gut
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Binding
Reprint, stapled.
Language
English
Item weight
550 grams
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