Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) - Hardcover

Lamberton, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520054377 ISBN 13: 9780520054370

Publisher: University of California Press, 1986

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Extraordinarily thought-provoking for all theologicans and especially for biblical theologians, since both are concerned with inspired and normative ancient narratives."--A. T. Kraabel, "Religious Studies Review

About the Author:

Robert Lamberton is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0520054377
• ISBN 13: 9780520054370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 375