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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation - Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Hardcover)
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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation - Luke-Acts as Rival to the Aeneid (Hardcover)
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Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke-Acts as Rival to
the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke-Acts composed not a
history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil's Aeneid by
adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical
Greek poetry, especially Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Euripides's
Bacchae. For example, Vergil and, more than a century later, Luke
both imitated Homer's account of Zeus's lying dream to Agamemnon,
Priam's escape from Achilles, and Odysseus's shipwreck and visit to
the netherworld. Both Vergil and Luke, as well as many other
intellectuals in the Roman Empire, engaged the great poetry of the
Greeks to root new social or political realities in the soil of
ancient Hellas, but they also rivaled Homer's gods and heroes to
create new ones that were more moral, powerful, or compassionate.
One might say that the genre of Luke-Acts is an oxymoron: a prose
epic. If this assessment is correct, it holds enormous importance
for understanding Christian origins, in part because one may no
longer appeal to the Acts of the Apostles for reliable historical
information. Luke was not a historian any more than Vergil was,
and, as the Latin bard had done for the Augustine age, he wrote a
fictional portrayal of the kingdom of God and its heroes,
especially Jesus and Paul, who were more powerful, more ethical,
and more compassionate than the gods and heroes of Homer and
Euripides or those of Vergil's Aeneid.
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