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Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes (Hardcover)
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Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes (Hardcover)
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From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the
Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed
to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and
writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer
for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his
works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and
interpret the era's intellectual, political, and theological
struggles. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes
elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied
as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer
as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic.
Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources,
including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia,
philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe's
transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the
study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to
anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of
early modern Europe.
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