You might also like

More about Homer the Theologian

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 107 loyalty points

Book 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Homer the Theologian
• Subtitle: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition
• Author: Robert Lamberton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780520066076
• ISBN: 0520066073
• ID: 04615567
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 594 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 230 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1992

Trending among others

---

---

---