Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ the Homeric epics to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Baukje van den Berg (Editor), Jacqueline Klooster (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2018
• EAN: 9789004365810
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36581-0
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies