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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786211703321

Autore

Lamberton Robert

Titolo

Homer the theologian : Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition / / Robert Lamberton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1986

ISBN

9786612355486

0-520-06607-3

0-520-90920-8

1-282-35548-1

0-585-16426-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) : 1 illustration

Collana

The transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 9

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Religion in literature

Allegory

Neoplatonism

Epic poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First paperback printing 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 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 I -- APPENDIX II -- APPENDIX III -- APPENDIX IV -- WORKS CITED -- ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGES CITED -- INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- GENERAL INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.