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.
Highlights
In spite of what the etymology of republic may suggest, modern republics bear little resemblance to the Roman or Ancient Greek polities
The article considers Feofan Prokopovich's contribution to redefining Russian monarchical ideology. 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
Summary
In spite of what the etymology of republic (from Latin res publica, “public matter, commonwealth”) may suggest, modern republics bear little resemblance to the Roman or Ancient Greek polities.
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