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Zusatztext Brumbaugh's The New Politics of Olympos: Kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns (Oxford, 2019) is an invaluable contribution for illuminating the ideological potential of Callimachean poetry.... Aside from situating these Hymns in this cultural and political context, Brumbaugh's approach presents compelling arguments for reading these six poems as a collection. Informationen zum Autor Michael Brumbaugh is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
