Cargando…
Homer the theologian : neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition.
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 nat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1989.
|
| Colección: | Transformation of the classical heritage ;
9. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Bibliography: p. [325]-339. |
| ISBN: | 9780520909205 0520909208 9786612355486 6612355484 0520066073 9780520066076 1282355481 9781282355484 0585164266 9780585164267 |