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

by Robert Lamberton

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520066073

ISBN13:9780520066076

Release Date:April 1989

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Fantasy Epics History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Philosophy Poetry

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