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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the late 4th century BCE to the 5th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.

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Author:   Christina-Panagiota Manolea
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   22
Weight:   0.887kg
ISBN:  

9789004243439

ISBN 10:   9004243437
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   11 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction  Christina-Panagiota Manolea PART 1: Literary Reception 1 Homer and Hellenistic Poetry (Other Than Epigram)  Jane L. Lightfoot 2 Brevis Homerus: Homer in the Greek Epigram of the 1st to 4th Centuries  Luis Arturo Guichard 3 Reworking a Homeric Model of Heroism. Transformations of the Figure of Odysseus in the Novel of Chariton  Christos Fakas 4 Quintus Smyrnaeus “As a Great Emulator and Zealous Admirer of Homer”  Georgios Tsomis 5 Homeric Nonnus  Gianfranco Agosti and Enrico Magnelli PART 2: Rhetoric 6 Homer in the Theory and Teaching of Rhetoric  Malcolm Heath 7 Homer in the Second Sophistic  Lawrence Kim 8 The Quest for Meaning: Homeric Quotations in Synesius of Cyrene and Libanius  Aglae Pizzone 9 Homer in Themistius  Robert J. Penella PART 3: Philosophy – Theology 10 Stoic Homeric Allegoresis  Ilaria L.E. Ramelli 11 An Epicurean Evaluates the Practical Wisdom of Homer: Philodemus, On the Good King  Jeff Fish 12 Philo’s Use of Homer  John Dillon 13 The Educational Role of Poetry: Plutarch Reading Homer  Diotima Papadi 14 Clement of Alexandria’s Reception of Homer  Cornelia van der Poll 15 Origen and Celsus on the Allegorical Reading of Homer and Moses  Ronald E. Heine 16 Homer and Eusebius of Caesarea  Mark Edwards 17 “As Leaves Are a Protection to a Tree, So Is Pagan Literature to Christian Truth”: Basil and Gregory Nazianzen on the Importance of Reading Homer  Sarah Klitenic Wear 18 Numenius, Cronius, and Porphyry on Homer  Robert Lamberton 19 Allegory, Metaphysics, Theology: Homeric Reception in Athenian Neoplatonism  Anne Sheppard Index

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""Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity lives up to its aims, and will prove a useful resource for students and scholars of Homeric reception wishing for pleasant company on their way."" Ronald Blankenborg, BMCR 2022.10.10.

"""Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity lives up to its aims, and will prove a useful resource for students and scholars of Homeric reception wishing for pleasant company on their way."" Ronald Blankenborg, BMCR 2022.10.10."

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity lives up to its aims, and will prove a useful resource for students and scholars of Homeric reception wishing for pleasant company on their way. Ronald Blankenborg, BMCR 2022.10.10.

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Christina – Panagiota Manolea, Ph.D. (2002), University College London, is Lecturer at the Hellenic Army Academy. She has published articles on the reception of ancient Greek literary tradition (especially Homer) and has co-edited Studies in Hermias’ commentary on Platos’ Phaedrus (Brill, 2020). Contributors are: Gianfranco Agosti, John Dillon, Mark Edwards, Christos Fakas, Jeffrey Fish, Luis Arturo Guichard, Malcolm Heath, Ronald E. Heine, Lawrence Kim, Robert Lamberton, Jane L. Lightfoot, Enrico Magnelli, Diotima Papadi, Robert J. Penella, Aglae Pizzone, Ilaria Ramelli, Anne Sheppard, Georgios Tsomis, Cornelia van der Poll, Sarah Klitenic Wear

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