Klooster Jacqueline, Berg Baukje van den. Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond

Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 302 p. — (Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature 413). — ISBN-13 978-90-0436581-0 ; ISBN-10 9004365818.Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ the Homeric epics to reflect on various types and aspects of political 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.