The allegory of mythological background in Enrique de Villenas’s Los Doze trabajos de Hércules
Abstract
The heroic figure of Hercules and its mythical transmission are practically unapproachable, but there are two key aspects that can at least serve us as a guide for his understanding: his double condition of man and god, and his transit between Nature and Culture. In the present article we reflect on how, in the mythical tradition, these aspects reached allegorically until the Middle Ages. We will focus especially on the literary work of Enrique de Villena, an author from the first third of the 15th century, who reinterpreted myth according to the ideological categories of his time.
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