Homer the theologian : Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition /
| Основен автор: | Lamberton, Robert. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1989.
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| Серия: |
Transformation of the classical heritage ;
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Съдържание:
- 1. The divine Homer and the background of neoplatonic allegory: Homer's pretensions
- Interpretation, allegory, and the critics of Homer
- Homer as theologos
- The Pythagoreans
- 2. Middle Platonism and the interaction of interpretive traditions: Philo of Alexandria
- Numenius
- Clement and Origen
- 3. Plotinian neoplatonism: Plotinus
- Porphyry
- Julian and Sallustius
- 4. The interaction of allegorical interpretation and deliberate allegory
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 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 nymphs.