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Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition

By Robert Lamberton

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1989
ISBN
9780520909205
DOI
10.1525/9780520909205
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21609219 bytes)
Series
Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 9
Pages
384\379
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:40:51

Description

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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