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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...

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Autor principal: Lamberton, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 0 |a Transformation of the classical heritage ;  |v IX 
505 0 |a Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF 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 1 An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher. 
505 0 |a APPENDIX 2 Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25343.15. APPENDIX 3 A Sampling of Proclus's Use of Homer; APPENDIX 4 The History of the Allegory of the Cave of the Nymphs; WORKS CITED: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL AUTHORS; ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGES CITED; INDEX OF GREEK TERMS; GENERAL INDEX. 
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