Homer's ancient readers : the hermeneutics of Greek epic's earliest exegetes / edited by Robert Lamberton and John J. Keaney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamberton, Robert, editor.

Keaney, John J., editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5402

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Authors and readers--Greece--History--Congresses.

Authors and readers.

Mythology, Greek, in literature--Congresses.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Reader-response criticism--Congresses.

Reader-response criticism.

Homer--Appreciation--Greece--Congresses.

Homer.

Homer--Criticism and interpretation--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 195 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the texts to answer and looking at how these expectations changed over time, the authors clarify the position of the Illiad and the Odyssey in the intellectual world of antiqueity while offering historical insight into the nature of reading.The collection surveys the entire field of preserved ancient interpretations of Homer, beginning with the fictional audiences portrayed within the poems themselves, proceedings to readings by Aristotle, the Stoics, and Aristarchus and Crates, and culminating in the spritiualized allegorical reading current among Platonists of the fifth and sixth centuries C.E. The influence of these ancient interpretations is then examined in Byzantium and in the Latin West during the Renaissance. Contributors to this volume are Robert Browning, Anthony Grafton, Robert Lamberton, A.A. Long, James Porter, Nicholas Richardson, and Charles Segal.Robert Lamberton is Assistant Professor of Classics and John J. Keaney is Professor of Classics, both at Princeton University.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Abbreviations

CHAPTER ONE. Bard and Audience in Homer

CHAPTER TWO. Aristotle's Reading of Homer and Its Background

CHAPTER THREE. Stoic Readings of Homer

CHAPTER FOUR. Hermeneutic Lines and Circles: Aristarchus and Crates on the Exegesis of Homer

CHAPTER FIVE. The Neoplatonists and the Spiritualization of Homer

CHAPTER SIX. The Byzantines and Homer

CHAPTER SEVEN. Renaissance Readers of Homer's Ancient Readers

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Papers delivered in somewhat different form at a conference held at Princeton University, Oct. 6-7, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.

ISBN:

9780691604176

0691604177

9780691197678

0691197679

OCLC:

1096185422