04490nam 2201201 a 450 991078621170332120230615221410.097866123554860-520-06607-30-520-90920-81-282-35548-10-585-16426-610.1525/9780520909205(CKB)2670000000344398(dli)HEB08384(OCoLC)44962995(MdBmJHUP)muse30651(DE-B1597)521018(OCoLC)609850092(DE-B1597)9780520909205(Au-PeEL)EBL470950(CaPaEBR)ebr10676222(CaONFJC)MIL235548(MiAaPQ)EBC470950(MiU)MIU01000000000000009859162(EXLCZ)99267000000034439819850319d1986 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHomer the theologian Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition /Robert LambertonBerkeley University of California Pressc19861 online resource (xvi, 363 pages)1 illustrationThe transformation of the classical heritage ;9First paperback printing 1989.0-520-05437-7 0-520-06622-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and indexes.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 INDEXHere 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.Transformation of the classical heritage ;9.Religion in literatureAllegoryNeoplatonismEpic poetryHistory and criticismachilles.allegory.ancient philosophy.bards.calchas.classicism.classics.dante.divine inspiration.divinity.epic poetry.epic tradition.epic.form.genre.gods and goddesses.greco roman studies.greek.hero.homer.homeric poems.iliad.invocation.literary criticism.literary theory.literature.myth.mythology.nonfiction.odyssey.oral tradition.platonic tradition.platonism.poetic form.prophecy.religion.religious experience.revelation.semiotics theory.supernatural.theoclymenus.tiresias.trojan war.Religion in literature.Allegory.Neoplatonism.Epic poetryHistory and criticism.883/.01Lamberton Robert530880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786211703321Homer the theologian2376259UNINA