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
