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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: new politics of Olympos
    sub title: kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns
  name:
    name part: Brumbaugh, Michael Everett
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 politics of the divine family. In the new political order he depicts, Kallimachos virtually eliminates the harmful strife traditionally associated with these figures, reframing the gods as good kings and queens within the idiom of contemporary politics. Not only does Kallimachos depict these gods as pro-dynastic exemplars of good governance, but he also engages his audience in discourses on the nature of power, just rule, reciprocity, transgression and punishment, as well as the roles of kings, queens and poets. In dialogue with a range of literary texts from the Archaic, Classical and indeed contemporary periods, Kallimachos renegotiates the political dynamics of the Olympian gods who serve as paradigms for his ideology. I argue that this "new politics of Olympos" constitutes Kallimachos' effort to shape the political discourse emerging within and between the courts of Hellenistic superpowers. His hymns for the gods define what is praiseworthy and set the agenda for a conversation about power at the dawning of a new political phenomenon-Hellenistic kingship. I close the book with a brief overview of Kallimachos' political ideology in the Hymns, the rhetorical strategies he employs, and the inter- and intratextual dynamics that draw readers of the poetry book into a larger discussion on power, authority and just rule. Finally, I offer some speculations on the persuasive effect of praise on a potential Ptolemaic reader for whom the poetry book might serve as an education in and inducement to good kingship.
  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.
  note: Michael Brumbaugh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Callimachus
  subject:
    topic: Gods, Greek, in literature
  subject:
    topic: Kings and rulers in literature
  subject:
    topic: Politics in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: To 146 B.C
  classification: PA5319.K27 Z54 2019
  classification: 880.9/002
  identifier: 9780190059262
  identifier: 0190059265
  identifier: 9780190059286
  identifier: 9780190059279
  identifier: 2019012355
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190701
    record change date: 20200117110005.0
    record identifier: in00004083878