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Homer the Theologian : Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition by C. L. Barber; Cesar Lombardi Barber; Richard P. Wheeler; Richard Paul Wheeler is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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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 i

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Author

C. L. Barber; Cesar Lombardi Barber; Richard P. Wheeler; Richard Paul Wheeler

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520066076

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-25