Brill' s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity /

Brill' s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity /

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, ad...

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Other Authors: Manolea, Christina - Panagiota (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; 22.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online VI.

Subjects:

Homer > Appreciation.
Homer > Influence.
Art appreciation.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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Call Number: PA4037.A5

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Christina-Panagiota Manolea
  • Chapter 1 Homer and Hellenistic Poetry (Other Than Epigram) /
  • Jane L. Lightfoot
  • Chapter 2 Brevis Homerus: Homer in the Greek Epigram of the 1st to 4th Centuries /
  • Luis Arturo Guichard
  • Chapter 3 Reworking a Homeric Model of Heroism. Transformations of the Figure of Odysseus in the Novel of Chariton /
  • Christos Fakas
  • Chapter 4 Quintus Smyrnaeus "As a Great Emulator and Zealous Admirer of Homer" /
  • Georgios Tsomis
  • Chapter 5 Homeric Nonnus /
  • Gianfranco Agosti and Enrico Magnelli
  • Chapter 6 Homer in the Theory and Teaching of Rhetoric /
  • Malcolm Heath
  • Chapter 7 Homer in the Second Sophistic /
  • Lawrence Kim
  • Chapter 8 The Quest for Meaning: Homeric Quotations in Synesius of Cyrene and Libanius /
  • Aglae Pizzone
  • Chapter 9 Homer in Themistius /
  • Robert J. Penella
  • Chapter 10 Stoic Homeric Allegoresis /
  • Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
  • Chapter 11 An Epicurean Evaluates the Practical Wisdom of Homer: Philodemus, On the Good King /
  • Jeff Fish
  • Chapter 12 Philo's Use of Homer /
  • John Dillon
  • Chapter 13 The Educational Role of Poetry: Plutarch Reading Homer /
  • Diotima Papadi
  • Chapter 14 Clement of Alexandria's Reception of Homer /
  • Cornelia van der Poll
  • Chapter 15 Origen and Celsus on the Allegorical Reading of Homer and Moses /
  • Ronald E. Heine
  • Chapter 16 Homer and Eusebius of Caesarea /
  • Mark Edwards
  • Chapter 17 "As Leaves Are a Protection to a Tree, So Is Pagan Literature to Christian Truth": Basil and Gregory Nazianzen on the Importance of Reading Homer /
  • Sarah Klitenic Wear
  • Chapter 18 Numenius, Cronius, and Porphyry on Homer /
  • Robert Lamberton
  • Chapter 19 Allegory, Metaphysics, Theology: Homeric Reception in Athenian Neoplatonism /
  • Anne Sheppard
  • General Index.