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This Companion examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the sixth to the eighteenth-century, while also including excursions into the fine arts and music in modern times. Its eighteen chapters explore the central place of Homer in Byzantine culture; the subsequent revival of Homeric studies in the Italian Renaissance; allegorical exegesis and the close connection between poetics and rhetoric inherited from Antiquity; the evolution of Homeric scholarship from a humanistic and aesthetic to a more historicist approach.

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Christina-Panagiota Manolea, PhD (2002), Classics, University College London, is Assistant Professor at the Hellenic Army Academy. She has published on the reception of the ancient Greek literary tradition (especially Homer), including the edition of Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity (Brill, 2022). François Renaud, PhD, University of Tübingen, is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Moncton, Canada. He has published in ancient ethics, rhetoric, and poetics, as well as modern hermeneutics and reception studies, including the co-edition of Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition (de Gruyter, 2025). Contributors are: Delphine Lauritzen, Floris Bernard, Baukje van den Berg, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Matteo Venier, Valentina Prosperi, Silvia Montiglio, Christiane Deloince-Louette, Andrea Catanzaro, Alexander U. Bertland, Pat Rogers, Ralph McLean, Fabienne Moore, Christina-Panagiota Manolea, François Renaud, Vincenzo Farinella, Wendy Heller, Holger Schmid.

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