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

Name: Homer the Theologian Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition
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ISBN: 9780520066076

ISBN-10: 0520066073

ISBN-13: 9780520066076

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert Lamberton

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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 theIliadandOdyssey.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.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/20/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



The Divine Homer and the Background of Neoplatonic Allegory



Homer's Pretensions



Interpretation, Allegory, and the Critics of Homer



Homer as Theologos



The Pythagoreans



Middle Platonism and the Interaction of Interpretive Traditions



Philo of Alexandria



Numenius



Clement and Origen



Plotinian Neoplatonism



Plotinus



Porphyry



Julian and Sallustius



The Interaction of Allegorical Interpretation and Deliberate Allegory



Proclus



Introduction



Language as a System of Meaning



Myths or Texts?



The Major Exegesis of Homer in the Commentary on the Republic



The Meaning of the Iliad and Odyssey



The Transmission of the Neoplatonists' Homer to the Latin Middle Ages



The Paths of Transmission



The Arabic Tradition



The Greek East



The Latin Tradition



The Late Middle Ages and Dante


Afterword Preconception and Understanding: the Allegorists in Modern Perspective



An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher



Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15



A Sampling of Proclus's Use of Homer



The History of the Allegory of the Cave of the Nymphs


Works Cited: Ancient and Medieval Authors


Modern Authors


Ancient and Medieval Passages Cited


Index of Greek Terms


General Index