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Eric Hostetter Martinez, Victor Manuel 2015-09-28T15:53:05Z 2015-09-28T15:53:05Z 10000-01-01 2009 2009 "My dissertation traces the Italic roots for the iconographies and roles of Herakles in central and northern Italy (i.e., Etrusco-Italic Hercle) prior to Roman hegemony (ca. 1000--300 BCE). The thesis begins with the premise that this hero-god, commonly known as Hercle, after his Greek namesake, may have had an indigenous ancestry on the Italic peninsula. I argue that, although one cannot trace a direct teleological evolution for Hercle that goes back to the beginning of anthropomorphization, earlier and more anonymous Italic hero-figures embody indigenous and deeply rooted cultural meanings that are evident in subsequent representations of Hercle. In shaping my theorization of the indigenous, Italic roots of Hercle, I draw especially on the work of Richard White and Mary Helms. White's concept of the ""middle ground,"" which refers to both a geographic location (literally a space of interaction) and a cultural stance (the overlap or place between two differing cultures) is a compelling lens through which to understand the interaction between Greeks and Italic populations. Helms outlines a theory of how distance affects the formation of ideology among ruling elites, such that spatial and temporal distances become linked and equivalent on a cosmological scale. In applying these ideas to the study of objects, I used quantitative elements such as iconography and materiality to get at underlying socio-cultural structure and meaning at both local and regional levels." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:53:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3406781.pdf: 39639010 bytes, checksum: e39d5ae878afd47bc4f87b8ac697dcbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88663 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 641 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87382 (MiAaPQ)AAI3406781 eng Classical Studies Etrusco-Italic Hercle: A Study in the Formation of Image, Cult, and Regional Identity text Art History Art History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.