Homer the Theologian : Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamberton, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Homer.
Homer > Religion.
Religion in literature.
Religion.
Neoplatonism.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Allegory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Neo-Platonism.
Allegorie.
Neo-platonisme.
Religion dans la litterature.
Poesie epique grecque > Histoire et critique.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (375 pages).
ISBN:9780520909205

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