The new politics of Olympos kingship in Kallimachos' hymns
Presentación del editor: "This book is a study of the ways in which Kallimachos used hymns praising the Olympian gods to shape a political discourse on kingship emerging in the Hellenistic world. In it, I investigate how the poet crafts compelling new portrayals of the gods that refigure the po...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
2019
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991001024019708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
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.
