Homer and the good ruler in antiquity and beyond / edited by Jacqueline Klooster, Baukje van den Berg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klooster, Jacqueline, editor.

Van den Berg, Baukje, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 413.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 413

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Homer--Influence.

Kings and rulers in literature.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

This book focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of the epics of Homer in historically diverse contexts, this question is answered in various ways. Rather than considering Homer's works as literary products, then, this volume discusses the pedagogic dimension of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' as perceived by later thinkers and writers interested in the parameters of good rule, such as Plato, Philodemus, Polybius, Vergil, and Eustathios.

Contents:

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond: Introduction p. 1 / Jacqueline Klooster and Baukje van den Berg

The Birth of the Princes' Mirror in the Homeric Epics p. 20 / Irene. J.F. de Jong

Between Gods and Mortals: The Piety of Homeric Kings p. 38 / Will Desmond

A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds: The Reception of Phoenix' Educational Ideal p. 65 / Jacqueline Klooster

Plato's Homer as a Guide for Moderation and Obedience p. 86 / Patrick G. Lake

The Problem with the Prince: Agamemnon in the Ancient Exegetical Tradition on Homer p. 104 / Elsa Bouchard

Educating Kings through Travel: The Wanderings of Odysseus as a Mental Model in Polybius' Histories p. 123 / Maria Gerolemou

Some Critical Themes in Philodemus' On the Good King According to Homer p. 141 / Jeffrey Fish

Eumaeus, Evander, and Augustus: Dionysius and Virgil on Noble Simplicity p. 157 / Casper C. de Jonge

Speaking Homer to Power: Anecdotes of Greek Intellectuals and Their Rulers in Plutarch's Symposia p. 182 / David F. Driscoll

Homeric Ideals Versus Roman Realities? Civil War, Autocracy, and the Reception of Homer in Silius Italicus' Punica p. 199 / Elina Pyy

Homer and the Good Ruler in the 'Age of Rhetoric': Eustathios of Thessalonike on Excellent Oratory p. 219 / Baukje van den Berg

On the Good King according to Homer: A Sixteenth-Century Treatise by Christophoros Kondoleon p. 239 / Filippomaria Pontani

'Royal Blood Will Stain My Spear': Satire, Trauma, and Semi-barbarous Princelings in Robert Graves' The Anger of Achilles p. 259 / Laura McKenzie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Homer and the good ruler in antiquity and beyond.

ISBN:

9789004365810

9004365818

OCLC:

1019741154