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Homer's Ancient Readers - The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes (Hardcover)
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Homer's Ancient Readers - The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long
commanded critical attention, little has been written on how
various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts.
These seven essays explore the ways in which the Illiad and the
Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the
Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the
texts to answer and looking at how these expectations changed over
time, the authors clarify the position of the Illiad and the
Odyssey in the intellectual world of antiqueity while offering
historical insight into the nature of reading. The collection
surveys the entire field of preserved ancient interpretations of
Homer, beginning with the fictional audiences portrayed within the
poems themselves, proceedings to readings by Aristotle, the Stoics,
and Aristarchus and Crates, and culminating in the spritiualized
allegorical reading current among Platonists of the fifth and sixth
centuries C.E. The influence of these ancient interpretations is
then examined in Byzantium and in the Latin West during the
Renaissance. Contributors to this volume are Robert Browning,
Anthony Grafton, Robert Lamberton, A.A. Long, James Porter,
Nicholas Richardson, and Charles Segal. Robert Lamberton is
Assistant Professor of Classics and John J. Keaney is Professor of
Classics, both at Princeton University. Originally published in
1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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