The new politics of Olympos : kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns

The new politics of Olympos : kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns / Michael Brumbaugh.

The New Politics of Olympos offers the first in-depth analysis of Kallimachos' only fully extant poetry book, the Hymns, by examining its contemporary political setting, engagement with a tradition of political thought stretching back to Homer, and portrayal of the poet as an image-maker for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brumbaugh, Michael Everett, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Callimachus. > Hymns.
Hymns (Callimachus)
To 146 B.C.
Gods, Greek, in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Politics in literature.
Gods, Greek, in literature
Kings and rulers in literature
Politics and government
Politics in literature
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Greece
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Kallimachos and the politics of praise
  • Zeus as a paradigm for dynastic continuity
  • Kallimachos' hymn "on kingship"
  • The poetics of praise in the hymn to Zeus
  • Apollo as a new paradigm for kingship
  • Saviors, tyrants, and the poetics of empire
  • On the good queen
  • Conclusion. On the good king according to Kallimachos.

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