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Homer the theologian: Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition

Robert Lamberton c1986 © University of California Press
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Series
  • Transformation of the Classical Heritage
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520066076 (paper)
  • 9780520054370 (hardcover)
  • 9780520909205 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page vii)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (page xv)
  • I THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY (page 1)
  • II MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS (page 44)
  • III PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM (page 83)
  • IV THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY (page 144)
  • V PROCLUS (page 162)
  • VI THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES (page 233)
  • AFTERWORD PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE (page 298)
  • APPENDIX 1 An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher. (page 306)
  • APPENDIX 2 Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15. (page 312)
  • APPENDIX 3 A Sampling of Proclus's Use of Homer. (page 315)
  • APPENDIX 4 The History of the Allegory of the Cave of the Nymphs. (page 319)
  • WORKS CITED: ANCIENT AND MEDIVAL AUTHORS (page 325)
    • MODERN AUTHORS (page 330)
  • ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGE CITED (page 341)
  • INDEX OF GREEK TERMS (page 353)
  • GENERAL INDEX (page 355)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JHS 108 (1988): 244-245 http://www.jstor.org/stable/632680
CR 38.2 (1998): 288-290 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3065594
MNE 44.Fasc 1/2. (1991): 209-211 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4432024
CL 40.4 (Autumn 1988): 394-395 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771195
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