Why Republics Always Fail: Pondering Feofan Prokopovich’s Case for Russian Autocracy

Why Republics Always Fail: Pondering Feofan Prokopovich’s Case for Russian Autocracy

The article considers Feofan Prokopovich's contribution to redefining Russian autocratic ideology. In the first section, it uncovers an implicit polemic with Samuel Pufendorf's assessment of republican and mixed forms of governance. The second section traces the evolution of the genre of t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vivlīoḟika 2014-11, Vol.2, p.24-46
1. Verfasser: Maslov, Boris
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng ; ger
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Autocracy
Classical Reception
Pindar
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Zusammenfassung:The article considers Feofan Prokopovich's contribution to redefining Russian autocratic ideology. In the first section, it uncovers an implicit polemic with Samuel Pufendorf's assessment of republican and mixed forms of governance. The second section traces the evolution of the genre of the Pindaric ode, with its attendant poetics of autocratic agency, in Polish Neo-Latin tradition leading up to Feofan's Epinikion, written to celebrate Peter's victory at Poltava.
ISSN:2333-1658
2333-1658
DOI:10.21900/j.vivliofika.v2.745