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Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond 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.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond: Introduction
Jacqueline Klooster and Baukje van den Berg
The Birth of the Princes' Mirror in the Homeric Epics
Irene J.F. de Jong
Between Gods and Mortals: The Piety of Homeric Kings
Will Desmond
A Speaker of Words and Doer of Deeds: The Reception of Phoenix' Educational Ideal
Jacqueline Klooster
Plato's Homer as a Guide for Moderation and Obedience
Patrick G. Lake
The Problem with the Prince: Agamemnon in the Ancient Exegetical Tradition on Homer
Elsa Bouchard
Educating Kings through Travel: The Wanderings of Odysseus as a Mental Model in Polybius' Histories
Maria Gerolemou
Some Critical Themes in Philodemus' On the Good King According to Homer
Jeffrey Fish
Eumaeus, Evander, and Augustus: Dionysius and Virgil on Noble Simplicity
Casper C. de Jonge
Speaking Homer to Power: Anecdotes of Greek Intellectuals and Their Rulers in Plutarch's Symposia
David F. Driscoll
Homeric Ideals Versus Roman Realities? Civil War, Autocracy, and the Reception of Homer in Silius Italicus' Punica
Elina Pyy
Homer and the Good Ruler in the 'Age of Rhetoric': Eustathios of Thessalonike on Excellent Oratory
Baukje van den Berg
On the Good King According to Homer: A Sixteenth-Century Treatise by Christophoros Kondoleon
Filippomaria Pontani
'Royal Blood Will Stain My Spear': Satire, Trauma, and Semi-barbarous Princelings in Robert Graves' The Anger of Achilles
Laura McKenzie
Index Locorum
General Index
