Brill's companion to the reception of Homer from the Hellenistic age to late antiquity

Author(s)

• Manolea, Christina-Panagiota

Bibliographic Information

Brill's companion to the reception of Homer from the Hellenistic age to late antiquity

edited by Christina-Panagiota Manolea

（Brill's companions to classical reception, v. 22）

Brill, c2022

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the late 4th century BCE to the 5th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BC15326327
• ISBN:
  • 9789004243439
• LCCN: 2021033865
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 443 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 883/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Homer -- Appreciation
  • LCSH : Homer -- Influence
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB17727398