Homer the theologian : Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition / Robert Lamberton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamberton, Robert.

Series:

Transformation of the classical heritage ; 9.

The transformation of the classical heritage ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Ethics.

Homer.

Homer--Religion.

Homer--Symbolism.

Religion in literature.

Allegory.

Neoplatonism.

Epic poetry--History and criticism.

Epic poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) 1 illustration

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

I. THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY

II. MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS

III. PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM

IV. THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY

V. PROCLUS

VI. THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES

AFTERWORD. PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

APPENDIX IV

WORKS CITED

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGES CITED

INDEX OF GREEK TERMS

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

First paperback printing 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9786612355486

9780520066076

0520066073

9780520909205

0520909208

9781282355484

1282355481

9780585164267

0585164266

OCLC:

44962995