Werner Herzog & Hercules Segers

This chapter considers Statius’ use of Hercules and Herculean imagery in the Thebaid, and shows that Statius’ handling of Hercules reflects an attempt at constructing a new model o...

Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather...

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues ...

R. Herzog (1888–1959) was the first Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel when the state of Israel was established in 1948. R. Herzog therefore had to deal with Israel’s first war, its W...