Concepts of ideal rulership from antiquity to the Renaissance / edited by Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn.

Contributor(s): Roskam, Geert [editor.] | Schorn, Stefan [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, French, German Series: Lectio (Brepols (Firm)): 7.Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 488 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9782503580777; 2503580777Subject(s): Education of princes -- Early works to 1800 | Education of princes | Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Early works to 1800 | Political science -- History | Kings and rulers -- Conduct of life | Princes -- Éducation -- Ouvrages avant 1800 | Princes -- Éducation | Rois et souverains -- Devoirs -- Ouvrages avant 1800 | Idées politiques -- Histoire | Rois et souverains -- Morale pratique | Education of princes | Kings and rulers -- Conduct of life | Kings and rulers -- Duties | Political scienceGenre/Form: Early works. | History.LOC classification: JC393 | .C67 2018

Contents:

Peripheral perspectives on the tradition of 'Mirrors for princes' / Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn -- Reflections and rivalry : the origin of the mirror tradition in the Platonic First Alcibiades / Albert Joosse -- Le politique de Platon : un discours Peri basileias? / Panos Christodoulou - Aristotle's On kingship and euergetism / Brecht Buekenhout -- A Ptolemaic 'speculum principis' in P. Berol. inv. 13045, A I-III? / Davide Amendola -- Plutarch's statesmen : mirrors of political effectiveness / Susan Jacobs -- La tradition du miroir au prince et la figure du bon chef chez Dion Cassius / Anne Gangloff -- The classical traditions of panegyric and advice to princes / Oswyn Murray -- A hall of mirrors : the panegyricus and the panegyrici / Roger Rees -- Across all boundaries of genre? : on the uses and disadvantages of the term mirror for princes in Graeco-Roman antiquity : critical remarks and unorthodox reflections / Matthias Haake -- Zur 'Christianisierung' des 'Fürstenspiegels' in der Spätantike : Überlegungen zur ekthesis des Agapetos / Karen Piepenbrink -- Macedonian mirrors : the advice of Basil I for his son Leo VI / Shaun Tougher -- From royal court to city hall : the podestà Literature : a republican variant on the mirrors for princes? / David Napolitano -- Plato's advice to Alexander : Amir Khusraw's Mirror of Alexander (1299) / Richard Stoneman -- Erasmus' Panegyricus ad Philippum Austriae ducem (1504) / Elisa Tinelli

Summary: Ancient works On Kingship have received a lot of attention in recent scholarship, where the main focus is usually on classic works such as Seneca's On Clemency, Isocrates' Cyprian Orations or Dio of Prusa's Kingship Orations. In this volume, we deliberately turn to the periphery, to the grey zone where matters usually prove more complicated. This volume focuses on authors who deal with analogous problems and raise similar questions in other contexts, authors who also address powerful rulers or developed ideals of right rulership but who choose very different literary genres to do so, or works on kingship that have almost been forgotten. Departing from well-trodden paths, we hope to contribute to the scholarly debate by bringing in new relevant material and confront it with well-known and oft-discussed classics. This confrontation even throws a new light upon the very notion of 'mirrors for princes'. Moreover, the selection of peripheral texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance reveals several patterns in the evolution of the tradition over a longer period of time. Geert Roskam teaches ancient Greek literature at KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published several books on Hellenistic and Imperial philosophy. Stefan Schorn teaches Ancient History at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is editor-in-chief of 'Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature'.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ancient works On Kingship have received a lot of attention in recent scholarship, where the main focus is usually on classic works such as Seneca's On Clemency, Isocrates' Cyprian Orations or Dio of Prusa's Kingship Orations. In this volume, we deliberately turn to the periphery, to the grey zone where matters usually prove more complicated. This volume focuses on authors who deal with analogous problems and raise similar questions in other contexts, authors who also address powerful rulers or developed ideals of right rulership but who choose very different literary genres to do so, or works on kingship that have almost been forgotten. Departing from well-trodden paths, we hope to contribute to the scholarly debate by bringing in new relevant material and confront it with well-known and oft-discussed classics. This confrontation even throws a new light upon the very notion of 'mirrors for princes'. Moreover, the selection of peripheral texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance reveals several patterns in the evolution of the tradition over a longer period of time. Geert Roskam teaches ancient Greek literature at KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published several books on Hellenistic and Imperial philosophy. Stefan Schorn teaches Ancient History at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is editor-in-chief of 'Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature'.

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