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

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-24343-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 887 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manolea, Christina-Panagiota

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Christina – Panagiota Manolea, Ph.D. (2002), University College London, is Lecturer at the Hellenic Army Academy. She has published articles on the reception of ancient Greek literary tradition (especially Homer) and has co-edited Studies in Hermias’ commentary on Platos’ Phaedrus (Brill, 2020).

Contributors are: Gianfranco Agosti, John Dillon, Mark Edwards, Christos Fakas, Jeffrey Fish, Luis Arturo Guichard, Malcolm Heath, Ronald E. Heine, Lawrence Kim, Robert Lamberton, Jane L. Lightfoot, Enrico Magnelli, Diotima Papadi, Robert J. Penella, Aglae Pizzone, Ilaria Ramelli, Anne Sheppard, Georgios Tsomis, Cornelia van der Poll, Sarah Klitenic Wear