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Поэтика, искусство и политика в "Олимпийской речи" Диона Хрисостома
At the conclusion of Dio’s Olympian Oration there is a famous comparison of two images of Zeus - a sculptural image created by Phidias and a poetic one produced by Homer. Dio compares their specific traits, contrasting the peaceful and kind Zeus of Phidias with his ever-changing image in Homer that seems at times benevolent yet at other times belligerent and terrible. 1. I am tracing the content of the comparison back to two topoi of Hellenistic rhetoric that asked the question of how Phidias could produce his work when he did not have a model before his eyes. 2. By analyzing the whole of Dio’s speech in comparison with his orations On Kingdom, as well as with the Hellenistic treatises On Kingdom, I aim to demonstrate that it is the Roman power, in particular, the power of Emperor Trajan, which is epitomized by Dio’s Zeus, and that the message of the Olympian Oration was to affirm the peaceful character of his rule notwithstanding his wars against the Daci.