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Why republics always fail: Pondering Feofan Prokopovich’s case for Russian autocracy

Maslov, Boris

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Title
Why republics always fail: Pondering Feofan Prokopovich’s case for Russian autocracy
Author(s)
Maslov, Boris
Issue Date
2014-11
Keyword(s)
  • Autocracy
  • Pindar
  • Classical Reception
  • Feofan Prokopovich
  • Samuel Pufendorf
  • Pindaric ode
  • neo-Latin poetry
  • republicanism
  • absolutism
Abstract
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.
Series/Report Name or Number
ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, vol. 2
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2014 Boris Maslov
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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ВИВЛIОθИКА V2 2014 PRIMARY
Volume 2