...This chapter further examines how Kallimachos depicts the poet and the praise he crafts as essential to kingship. It argues that the hymn’s lengthy narrative detailing Rhea’s postpartum search for a stream in the Hymn to Zeus is a metaphor for the poet’s own aporia...

... Theogony Empedocles Striker Gisela Zeno of Citium Algra Keimpre Cleanthes Hymn to Zeus Long A A Tate J Chrysippus Dike δίκη Eunomia Good Governance Genesis Harmony visions of Koning Hugo Polytheism monotheism Eris Galen Themis Custom Law West M L Athena Euhemerus Diodorus Siculus...

...This chapter looks at ways in which the Hymn to Zeus jointly praises Zeus and the Ptolemaic kings. It takes as its starting point the scholarly consensus that associates this hymn with the first succession in the Ptolemaic dynasty. Against that historical context, it demonstrates...

...This chapter assesses how Kallimachos characterizes Zeus’ kingship and the structure of his political regime in the Hymn to Zeus. Depicting Zeus as a powerful figure who uses force to take what he wants, Kallimachos initially presents political power as derived from physical power...

...This chapter discusses the political themes of the Theogony and suggests that the poem be read as a hymn to Zeus. It also discusses Eros (and Philotes) as a driving force of creation and Zeus’s invention of marriage, including his two wives: Metis and Hera. It sees Olympus...

... followed the basic succession myth of Ouranos-Kronos-Zeus, although Ocean and Tethys might have been inserted after Ouranos in one version. There was at least one version of the Orphic Hymn to Zeus that either existed as a separate poem or was included within a theogonic narrative. Whether an Orphic...

...This chapter details how Kallimachos resumes the patron/client discourse from the Hymn to Zeus in the Hymn to Apollo by depicting a hierarchy linking Apollo, the narrator-poet, and the chorus he leads. Here, however, Kallimachos revises the relationship between...

...). And in the Hymn to Zeus, he uses the same Euhemerist notion as a foil to what the poem itself parades as immortality granted by poetic language (Call. Jov. 8–9 καὶ γὰρ τάφον, ὦ ἄνα, σεῖο / Κρῆτες ἐτεκνήναντο. σὺ δ᾿ οὐ θάνες, ἐσσὶ γὰρ αἰεί). ⁸⁹ Since, in the Hymn...