ENGLISH

Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato

By Robert Lamberton

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2012
ISBN
1589837118, 9781589837119
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4499762 bytes)
Series
Writings from the Greco-Roman World 34
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
xlii+322\366
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-09-04 16:57:54

Description

Procluss Commentary on Platos Republic contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist antiquity. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the Republic, Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an analysis of Homers polysemous text whose influence can be observed in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and semiotics.

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