Homer and the good ruler in antiquity and beyond

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Homer and the good ruler in antiquity and beyond

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jacqueline Klooster, Baukje van den Berg

Contributor

• Van den Berg, Baukje
• Klooster, Jacqueline
• Klooster, Jacqueline
• Van den Berg, Baukje

Editor

• Klooster, Jacqueline
• Klooster, Jacqueline
• Van den Berg, Baukje
• Van den Berg, Baukje

Subject

• Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
• Epik
• Homer -- Influence
• Homerus, ca. v8. Jh
• Kings and rulers in literature
• Kings and rulers in literature
• Rezeption

Language

eng

Summary

This book 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

Member of

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplementum, 413
• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Supplementum | Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Cataloging source

ICU/DLC

Dewey number

883/.01

Index

index present

LC call number

PA4037.A5

LC item number

H56 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature

Series volume

volume 413