Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition / edited by Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud, and Harold Tarrant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manolea, Christina-Panagiota, editor.

Renaud, François, editor.

Tarrant, Harold, editor.

Series:

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Volume 426.

Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series ; Volume 426

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2025]

Summary:

Plato's famous and infamous criticism of Homer was the climax of a series of attacks by early thinkers on the first and greatest Greek poet Homer.It triggers an even longer series of responses attempting either to justify further "the old quarrel between philosophy poetry" (Pl.Resp.607b-c), or, in most cases, to reconcile the two great authors.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Homer at the Banquet: Xenophon's Symposium and Plutarch's Symposiaka

2 The Way of Acting as Homer's Odysseus: A Response to the Plato-Homer Question from Plato Onwards

3 Ὅσιον προτιμᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν: A Hidden Dialogue between Aristotle and Plato on Homer

4 Homer in the Platonic Dubia and Spuria

5 Poetic Enthusiasm: The (Mis)Fortune of a Platonic Image

6 Homeric scholia and the Platonic tradition: Πλάτωνα ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν?

7 The Voice of Homer and That of His Characters: The Criticism of μίμησις (Resp. 393d -394e) and Its Varied Reception

8 Homer and Plato as Philosophical Authorities in Cicero

9 Exemplum Homeri: Reception and Exegesis of the Epos in Plutarch's Praecepta gerendae reipublicae

10 Ancient Wisdom in Maximus of Tyre

11 Odysseus' Stormy Seas: From Ps.-Plato to Numenius and Beyond

12 War in the Iliad: Untruth for Plato, Allegory for Platonists, Truth for Our Times?

13 Homer, Plato and the Modes of Teaching Exposition

14 Allegorical and Non-Allegorical Readings of Homer in Proclus

15 Plato Ὁμηρικώτατος? Proclus on the Muses' Speech (Resp. 8.545c- 547a)

16 Proclus on Plato as Emulator (zêlôtês) of Homer

List of Contributors

Index of Passages Discussed

Index of Selected Names and Concepts.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

3-11-167503-3

OCLC:

1516107977