هومر الهی‌دان: خوانش تمثیلی نوافلاطونی و رشد سنت حماسی (جلد نهم) (تحول میراث کلاسیک)

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. Content: 1. The divine Homer and the background of neoplatonic allegory: Homer's pretensions -- Interpretation, allegory, and the critics of Homer -- Homer as theologos -- The Pythagoreans -- 2. Middle Platonism and the interaction of interpretive traditions: Philo of Alexandria -- Numenius -- Clement and Origen -- 3. Plotinian neoplatonism: Plotinus -- Porphyry -- Julian and Sallustius -- 4. The interaction of allegorical interpretation and deliberate allegory -- 5. Proclus: Introduction -- Language as a system of meaning -- Myths or texts? -- The major exegesis of Homer in the commentary on the Republic -- The meaning of the Iliad and Odyssey -- 6. The transmission of the neoplatonists' Homer to the Latin Middle Ages: The paths of transmission -- The Arabic tradition -- The Greek East -- The Latin tradition -- The late Middle Ages and Dante -- Afterword: Preconception and understanding: the allegorists in modern perspective -- Appendix 1: An interpretation of the modest Chariclea from the lips of Philip the philosopher -- Appendix 2: Proclus's commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15 -- Appendix 3: A sampling of Proclus's use of Homer -- Appendix 4: The history of the allegory of the cave of nymphs. "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."-- Provided by publisher

Through explorations of individual plays and of patterns that shape the entire canon, The Whole Journey illuminates dramatic, psychological, and historical concerns central to our understanding of Shakespeare.