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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>9</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction: Myth and the Quest for Human Excellence</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>13</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus: from Myth to Archetype</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>27</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(23)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>1>The myth of Sisyphus and the archetypal idealization of process over achievement</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Stoic Sisyphus</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>50</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(17)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Sisyphean archetype and quest for moral perfectibility in Stoic philosophy from Zeno, Chrysippus, Epictetus, and Seneca to Cicero and Marcus Aurelius</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Patristic Sisyphus</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>67</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(19)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The spiritual quest for faith and redemption in the works of Origen, Arnobius, Clement of Alexandria, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, and St. Augustine</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus in Medieval and Renaissance Mythography</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>86</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(24)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Moral and allegorical versions and interpretations of the myth of Sisyphus in the works of Lactantius Fulgentius, Isidore of Seville, John Ridewall, Giovanni Boccaccio, Thomas Cooper, Giglio Giraldi, Natale Conti, Vicenzo Cartari, Abraham Fraunce, Henry Peacham, Stephen Bateman, and Alexander Ross</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus as Astral Magician</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>110</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The quest for human and material perfectibility through astrology, alchemy, and astral magic in the works of Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino, Johannes Reuchlin, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and John Dee</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus as Humanist</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>136</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(57)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Humanism and the dignity of man in the works of Petrarch, Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Bartolomeo Facio, Platina, Lorenzo Valla, Nicholas Cusanus, Giannozzo Manetti, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, and Pietro Pomponazzi</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Humanism and eugenic education in the works of Erasmus, Juan Luis Vives, Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Elyot, and Roger Ascham</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Humanism and utopianism in Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, Tommaso Campanella's The City of the Sun, and Johan Valentin Andreae's Christianopolis</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus as Lover</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>193</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(120)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Philo Judaeus, Plato, Plotinus, and Nicholas Cusanus: on divine love</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Plato and Marsilio Ficino on Platonic love in the Symposium and the Commentary on Plato's Symposium</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Renaissance love dialogues of Leone Ebreo's (Judah Abravanel) Dialoghi d'Amore [The Philosophy of Love] and Pietro Bembo's Gli Asolani</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Giordano Bruno, De gli eroici furori [Of heroic frenzies] of the Sisyphean lover</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Francesco Petrarch's erotic and spiritual lover in Il Canzoniere</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Pierre de Ronsard's perfectibility of sensual love in Les Amours de Cassandre and Sonets pour Helene</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Sir Philip Sidney and the aspirations and follies of the unrequited lover in Astrophil and Stella</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sisyphus as Hero</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>313</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(114)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance conceptions of the hero and heroic action</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Sisyphean hero in medieval romance: Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The indeterminate perfectibility of the courtier hero: Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier]</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Edmund Spenser's Sisyphean heroes in The Faerie Queene: Prince Arthur</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>The Red Crosse Knight and the mysteries of holiness</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Sir Guyon's paradoxical discipline of Stoic temperance</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Britomart's quest for human perfectibility through the mythical transformations of chaste love</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Sir Artegall's ascending and descending forms of justice</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=60></TD><TD>Sir Calidore: the endless labor of human perfectibility through courtesy in life and in art</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Notes</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>427</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(117)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>544</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(53)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>597</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

The myth of Sisyphus : renaissance theories of human perfectibility