Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36581-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 413, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klooster, Jacqueline

Berg, Baukje van den

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

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

The Birth of the Princes’ Mirror in the Homeric Epics
Irene J.F. de Jong

Between Gods and Mortals: The Piety of Homeric Kings
Will Desmond

A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds: The Reception of Phoenix’ Educational Ideal
Jacqueline Klooster

Plato’s Homer as a Guide for Moderation and Obedience
Patrick G. Lake

The Problem with the Prince: Agamemnon in the Ancient Exegetical Tradition on Homer
Elsa Bouchard

Educating Kings through Travel: The Wanderings of Odysseus as a Mental Model in Polybius’ Histories
Maria Gerolemou

Some Critical Themes in Philodemus’ On the Good King According to Homer
Jeffrey Fish

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

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

Homeric Ideals Versus Roman Realities? Civil War, Autocracy, and the Reception of Homer in Silius Italicus’ Punica
Elina Pyy

Homer and the Good Ruler in the ‘Age of Rhetoric’: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Excellent Oratory
Baukje van den Berg

On the Good King According to Homer: A Sixteenth-Century Treatise by Christophoros Kondoleon
Filippomaria Pontani

‘Royal Blood Will Stain My Spear’: Satire, Trauma, and Semi-barbarous Princelings in Robert Graves’ The Anger of Achilles
Laura McKenzie

Index Locorum
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacqueline J.H. Klooster, Ph.D. (2009) University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. She has published widely on ancient literature, including Poetry as Window and Mirror. Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry (Brill, 2011).

Baukje van den Berg, Ph.D. (2016) University of Amsterdam, is a postdoctoral researcher in Byzantine Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her main research interests are Byzantine (classical) scholarship and the reception of ancient literature in Byzantium.

Contributors are: Baukje van den Berg, Elsa Bouchard, William Desmond, David F. Driscoll, Jeffrey Fish, Maria Gerolemou, Irene J.F. de Jong, Casper C. de Jonge, Jacqueline J.H. Klooster, Patrick G. Lake, Laura McKenzie, Filippomaria Pontani, Elina Pyy.