Homer the theologian
Subtitle: the Iliad and Odyssey as read by the Neoplatonists of late antiquity
By: by Robert Drummond Lamberton
Published: 1981
Language: eng
Subjects: Religion; Symbolism; Neoplatonism; Allegory; Criticism and interpretation; Religion in literature
Description: Abstract.
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1979.

Bibliography: v. 1. leaves 494-510.
Table of contents: title: v. 2. The life and poetry of Homer / Ps.-Plutarch. The cave of the nymphs in the Odyssey / Porphyry. An interpretation of the modest Chariclea from the lips of Philip the Philosopher. Proclus the Successor on those things said by Plato in the Republic against Homer and poetry. Proclus' Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1. 341.25-343.15. A sampling of Proclus' use of Homer. The history of the allegory of the Cave of the nymphs.