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Homer and the good ruler in antiquity and beyond / edited by Jacqueline Klooster, Baukje van den Berg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; volume 413.
- Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 413
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Homer.
- Homer--Influence.
- Kings and rulers in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond: Introduction (Klooster and van den Berg); The Birth of the Princes' Mirror in the Homeric Epics (de Jong); Between Gods and Mortals: The Piety of Homeric Kings (Desmond); A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds: The Reception of Phoenix' Educational Ideal (Klooster); Plato's Homer as a Guide for Moderation and Obedience (Lake); The Problem with the Prince: Agamemnon in the Ancient Exegetical Tradition on Homer (Bouchard)
- Educating Kings through Travel: The Wanderings of Odysseus as a Mental Model in Polybius' Histories (Gerolemou)Some Critical Themes in Philodemus' On the Good King According to Homer (Fish); Eumaeus, Evander, and Augustus: Dionysius and Virgil on Noble Simplicity (de Jonge); Speaking Homer to Power: Anecdotes of Greek Intellectuals and Their Rulers in Plutarch's Symposia (Driscoll); Homeric Ideals Versus Roman Realities? Civil War, Autocracy, and the Reception of Homer in Silius Italicus' Punica (Pyy)
- Homer and the Good Ruler in the 'Age of Rhetoric': Eustathios of Thessalonike on Excellent Oratory (van den Berg)On the Good King according to Homer: A Sixteenth-Century Treatise by Christophoros Kondoleon (Pontani); 'Royal Blood Will Stain My Spear': Satire, Trauma, and Semi-barbarous Princelings in Robert Graves' The Anger of Achilles (McKenzie); Index Locorum; General Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 16, 2018)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Klooster, Jacqueline. Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond.
- ISBN:
- 9789004365858
- 9004365850
- Publisher Number:
- 99984082414
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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