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  1. Homer the theologian
    Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition
    Author: Lamberton, Robert
    Published: c1986
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0520054377; 0520066227; 9780520066076; 9780520909205
    Series: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 9
    Subjects: Religion in literature; Allegory; Neoplatonism; Epic poetry; Allegorische Exegese; Neuplatonismus; Allegorie
    Other subjects: Homer; Homer; Homer; Homerus (ca. v8. Jh.)
    Scope: xvi, 363 p.
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    First paperback printing 1989

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-339) and indexes
  2. Homer the Theologian
    Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition
    Author: Lamberton, Robert
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    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... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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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 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

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520066076
    Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; v.IX
    Scope: Online-Ressource (382 p.)
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    Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; I: THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY; A. Homer's Pretensions; B. Interpretation, Allegory, and the Critics of Homer; C. Homer as Theologos; D. The Pythagoreans; II: MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS; A. Philo of Alexandria; B. Numenius; C. Clement and Origen; III: PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM; A. Plotinus; B. Porphyry; C. Julian and Sallustius; IV: THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY; V: PROCLUS; A. Introduction

    B. Language as a System of MeaningC. Myths or Texts?; D. The Major Exegesis of Homer in the Commentary on the Republic; E. The Meaning of the Iliad and Odyssey; VI: THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES; A. The Paths of Transmission; B. The Arabic Tradition; C. The Greek East; D. The Latin Tradition; E. The Late Middle Ages and Dante; AFTERWORD: PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE; APPENDIX 1 An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher

    APPENDIX 2 Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15.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; MODERN AUTHORS; ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGES CITED; INDEX OF GREEK TERMS; GENERAL INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z;