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Title Homer's ancient readers : the hermeneutics of Greek epic's earliest exegetes / edited by Robert Lamberton and John J. Keaney
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xxv, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Series Magie classical publications
Magie classical publications.
Contents Introduction / Robert Lamberton -- Ch. 1. Bard and Audience in Homer / Charles Segal -- Ch. 2. Aristotle's Reading of Homer and Its Background / N.J. Richardson -- Ch. 3. Stoic Readings of Homer / A.A. Long -- Ch. 4. Hermeneutic Lines and Circles: Aristarchus and Crates on the Exegesis of Homer / James I. Porter -- Ch. 5. The Neoplatonists and the Spiritualization of Homer / Robert Lamberton -- Ch. 6. The Byzantines and Homer / Robert Browning -- Ch. 7. Renaissance Readers of Homer's Ancient Readers / Anthony Grafton
Analysis Epic poetry
Greek poetry
Epic poetry
Greek poetry
Notes Papers delivered in somewhat different form at a conference held at Princeton University, Oct. 6-7, 1989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index
Subject Homer -- Appreciation -- Greece -- Congresses.
Homer -- Appreciation -- Greece.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- Congresses.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
Authors and readers -- Greece -- History.
Authors and readers -- Greece -- History -- Congresses.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Mythology, Greek, in literature -- Congresses.
Reader-response criticism -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Keaney, John J.
Lamberton, Robert.
LC no. 91026215
ISBN 0691069344 (acid-free paper)