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Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition - Beitrage zur Altertumskunde

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Plato’s famous and infamous criticism of Homer was the climax of a series of attacks by early thinkers on the first and greatest Greek poet Homer. It triggers an even longer series of responses attempting either to justify further "the old quarrel between philosophy poetry" (Pl. Resp.

607b-c), or, in most cases, to reconcile the two great authors. The so-called Plato-Homer problem is in broad outline twofold, with numberless ramifications and sub-issues. Why does Plato’s Republic repeatedly attack and even exile the greatest cultural authority of the Greeks? And why does he do so while quoting Homer abundantly – more than any other author – and even adapting many artistic features of Homeric poetry? This volume concentrates on the various responses to the controversy among Platonically minded writers, while including a few other reactions from just outside that circle.

Strategies of reconciliation are many, including both allegorical and non-allegorical approaches, involving the notions of myth, mimesis, inspiration, wisdom, theology, etc. The volume presents original treatments of major figures, such as Porphyry and Proclus, as well lesser-known authors or texts (e.g. Platonic Spuria), and non-Platonists (Xenophon, Aristotle, scholiasts, etc.) who serve as enlightening comparative figures.

While recent literature on these questions usually concentrates on single authors, this book details its reception in the Platonic tradition overall.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 20, 2025
ISBN13 9783111673097
Publishers De Gruyter
Pages 321
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   591 g
Editor Manolea, Christina-Panagiota
Editor Renaud, Francois
Editor Tarrant, Harold

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