Michael Brumbaugh

The New Politics of Olympos

Kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns

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Produktbeschreibung

This book details how Kallimachos' hymns individually and collectively examine the nature of power, authority, and good governance by situating these praise poems at the intersection of a literary tradition stretching back to archaic Greek poetry and a contemporary political discourse on kingship emerging in the early Hellenistic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780190059262
• ISBN-10: 0190059265
• Artikelnr.: 56269343

Autorenporträt

Michael Brumbaugh is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Editions and Abbreviations
Introduction: Kallimachos and the Politics of Praise
Part I: On Zeus' Kingship
Chapter 1: Zeus as a Paradigm for Dynastic Continuity
Seeing Double
The Encomiastic Challenge of a Zeus Narrative
The Persuasive Rhetoric of Political "Correction"
Chapter 2: Kallimachos' Hymn "On Kingship"
Greatness, Justice, and the Politics of the Homeric Lottery
The Politics and Structures of Power in Zeus' Regime
"Kings and Singers" Re-Figured
Chapter 3: The Poetics of Praise in the Hymn to Zeus
Praise Makes the King - On Deeds, Praise, and Power
Hymnic Expectations and Musings on the Poet's Task
The (Meta)poetics of Rhea's Search
Dramatizing the Poetic Process
Part II: The Divine Family and the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Chapter 4: Apollo as a New Paradigm for Kingship
Poet as Client and Gatekeeper
Apollo (and) the King
Reading the Hymn in Context
A Poetics of Strife
Chapter 5: Saviors, Tyrants, and the Poetics of Empire
The Poetics of a Destabilized Kosmos
Apollo's Ordered Regime and Universal Empire
Ptolemaic Thalassocracy in a Destabilized Mediterranean
The Dynastic Legacy of "Soterism"
Distinguishing Kingship from Tyranny
Chapter 6: On the Good Queen
The Emergence of Ptolemaic Queenship
Kallimachos' Regal Goddesses
Conclusion: On the Good King According to Kallimachos
Figured Speech and the Didactics of Praise
Hymnic Paradeigmata - A Kallimachean Katoptron Basileos?
Bibliography