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Proclus's Commentary on the Republic of Plato contains in its fifth
and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of
the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist. In the context of
defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the
Republic, Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not
only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an
analysis of Homer's polysemous text whose influence can be observed
in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders
Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text
facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the
importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and
semiotics
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.
This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary,
makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great
importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although
attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a
grammaticus of the second and third century and is the single most
valuable source of evidence for the nature of the teaching of Homer
in the schools of the Roman Empire. Well represented in the
manuscript tradition, the Essay was used as prefatory material by
Renaissance editors of Homer, beginning with the editio princeps
(1488), and so exercised a powerful influence on Renaissance and
early-modern readers, who often refer to "Plutarch" as an authority
on Homer. The newly edited Greek text is presented with facing
translation.
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.
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in
modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of
inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal
and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines
the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form
as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature,
presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the
reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric
studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric
Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each
section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged
thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary
'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the
many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its
continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth,
development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading
of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey." Professor Lamberton argues that this
tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic
and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The
Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical
epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major
extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.
"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise
exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative
and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures
something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its
cultural milieu and transmits it in an appealing, lively, and
accessible style will now turn to Lombardo." --M. A. Katz, Wesleyan
University, in CHOICE
Written around the year 100, Plutarch's Lives have shaped
perceptions of the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks and Romans
for nearly two thousand years. This engaging and stimulating book
introduces both general readers and students to Plutarch's own life
and work. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which
Plutarch worked-Greece under Roman rule-and discusses his family
relationships, background, education, and political career. There
are two sides to Plutarch: the most widely read source on Greek and
Roman history and the educator whose philosophical and pedagogical
concerns are preserved in the vast collection of essays and
dialogues known as the Moralia. Lamberton analyzes these neglected
writings, arguing that we must look here for Plutarch's deepest
commitment as a writer and for the heart of his accomplishment.
Lamberton also explores the connection between biography and
historiography and shows how Plutarch's parallel biographies served
the continuing process of cultural accommodation between Greeks and
Romans in the Roman Empire. He concludes by discussing Plutarch's
influence and reputation through the ages.
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Hesiod (Paperback)
Robert Lamberton
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R992
Discovery Miles 9 920
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Standing at the very beginning of European literature, the poems
and verse fragments that have come down to us under Hesiod's name
tap the vast reservoir of oral tradition constituting Greek wisdom
about the ways of gods and men. The Theogony tells of the origins
of the gods and the universe, and so of the world-order we know,
while the Works and Days offers the first picture of the society
and economy of archaic rural Greece. Robert Lamberton provides here
an accessible introduction to these works of Hesiod. He discusses
the historical background of the poems and the problems of
accurately dating them, analyzes the major and subsidiary works,
and concludes by tracing the influence of Hesiodic poetry on later
Greek and Roman poetry and on Western European literature until
after the Renaissance. Throughout, Lamberton restores a sense of
the poetry of Hesiod in all the richness of its contradictions. He
shows that this body of poetry, which sings of the creation of the
universe and the generations of the gods, insists on doing so from
the perspective of the humblest of men-a wretched shepherd whom the
Muses initiated on Mount Helikon. The poetry speaks through this
idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious voice, appropriating
proverbial wisdom that is clearly the possession of a tradition
rather than any individual and transforming it into a discourse
that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the
world. "An important and definitive book. Lamberton combines the
sophistication of cultural anthropology with a refined sense for
the mechanics and aesthetics of archaic Greek literature and gives
Hesiod a fresh and original reading."-Gregory Nagy, Harvard
University
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