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The Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Pageant, 1897  <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <edition> <date>2021</date> </edition> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>PAG2_icon3</idno>  <publisher>The Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Gleeson White and Charles Shannon</editor> <author>Gustave Moreau</author>  <title>Hercules and the Hydra Henry and Company London 1897 Moreau, Gustave. "Hercules and the Hydra." The Pageant, 1897, p.7. Pageant Digital Edition, edited by Frederick King and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2021. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2021. https://1890s.ca/pag2-moreau-hercules

Our editorial method is informed by social-text editing principles. By “text” we mean verbal and visual printed material, including non-referential physical elements such as bindings, page layouts, and ornaments. We view any text as the outcome of collaborative processes that have specific manifestations at precise historical moments. The Yellow Nineties Online publishes facsimile editions of a select collection of fin-de- siècle aesthetic periodicals, together with paratexts of production and reception such as cover designs, advertising materials, and reviews. This historical material is enhanced by two kinds of peer-reviewed scholarly commentary: biographies of the periodicals’ contributors and associates; and critical introductions to each title and volume by experts in the field. All scholarly material on the site is vetted by the editor(s) and peer- reviewed by them and/or an international board of advisors. The site as a whole is peer- reviewed by NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship). Contributors to the site retain personal copyright in their material. The site is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Both primary and secondary materials, including all visual images, are marked up in TEI- (Textual-Encoding Initiative) compliant XML (Extensible Markup Language). To ensure maximum flexibility for users, magazines are available on the site as virtual objects (facsimiles) in FlipBook form; in HTML for online reading; in PDF for downloading and collecting; and in XML for those who wish to review and/or adapt our tag sets. In order to make ornamental devices, such as initial letters, head- and tail- pieces, searchable, we have developed a Database of Ornament in OMEKA, and linked it to the relevant pages of each magazine edition. As a dynamic structure, a scholarly website is always in process; Phase One of The Yellow Nineties Online (2010-2015) is completed and Phase Two (2016-2021) is underway.

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Hercules and the Hydrar PAG2_icon3 Hercules and the Hydra Gustave Moreau Swan Electric Engraving Company PAG2_7im 1897 frontispiece 16.5cm x 14cm Mythological scene with figures Oil on Canvas Ancient Greece; mythology; Greece; Ravine; cliffs; nightscape; Hercules; Hydra; corpses; monster; snake; Bow; arrows; quiver; cloth; rocks; clouds; moon Hercules and the Hydra A half-tone reproduction of Moreau’s painting, “Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra” (1875/6), the image portrays a confrontation between the mythical figure of Hercules and a 7-headed hydra. To the right of the image is the Hydra, a snake with its heads and much of its length in the air. The part of the body on the ground is not visible. There is one large central head with six smaller heads (three to its left, three to its right) along the upper quarter of its body. The monster is in three quarter profile and faces left towards Hercules. The Hydra is surrounded by dead bodies; most are strewn behind it in a blurred mass of flesh and shadow. In the foreground of the Hydra, one body, a nude male, is laid out in full. Its legs are bent with his left leg in full view and his feet pointing to the right. His leg points towards the left with his right arm stretched out on the ground below his head. On the left side of the image stands Hercules, with the front of his body facing the viewer and his face turned right towards the Hydra. He holds a bow in his left hand, held close to his chest. His right arm rests at his side while holding a quiver of arrows in his right hand. Hercules is mainly nude except for a piece of cloth wrapped around his left hip and genitals. On his head, he wears another piece of cloth hanging down his back. He carries a shield on his back. The two figures, hero and monster, confront each other in a ravine between two cliffs that frame the image. In the background, a cloudy night sky is portrayed with a full moon peeking out from the top of a cloud that hangs between the two cliff faces.