Proclus the Successor on poetics and the Homeric poems
Subtitle: essays 5 and 6 of his Commentary on the Republic of Plato
By: Proclus ; text, translation, notes, and introduction by Robert Lamberton
Contributors: Lamberton, Robert
Series: Society of Biblical Literature writings from the Greco-Roman world -- no. 34; Writings from the Greco-Roman world -- v. 34.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781589837119
Subjects: Poetry; Hellenistic Greek poetry; Greek Epic poetry; Classical literature; Ancient Philosophy; Neoplatonism; Hermeneutics; Semiotics
Other titles: Proclus, Essays 5 and 6 of His "Commentary on the Republic of Plato."
Work titles: In Platonis Rem publicam
Description: "Proclus's "Commentary on the Republic of Plato" contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist antiquity. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the "Republic," Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an analysis of Homer's polysemous text whose influence can be observed in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and semiotics." --Cover, p.4.
Notes: "Proclus's "Commentary on the Republic of Plato" contains in its fifth and sixth essays the only systematic analysis of the workings of the allegorical text to reach us from polytheist. In the context of defending Homer against the criticisms leveled by Socrates in the "Republic," Proclus, a late-antique polytheist thinker, provides not only a rich selection of interpretive material, but also an analysis of Homer's polysemous text whose influence can be observed in the work of the founder of modern semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. This first modern translation into English, with Greek text facing and limited commentary, makes it possible to appreciate the importance of Proclus in the history of both hermeneutics and semiotics." --Cover, p. 4.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and indexes.

Greek and English on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Proclus: life and works --; title: The commentary on the Republic --; title: Proclus on poetics and allegory --; title: The defense of Homer --; title: The text -- -- Addendum 1; title: Table of contents on Proclus's commentary on the Republic -- -- Addendum 2; title: Wilhelm Kroll's preface to volume 1 of his edition of the Commentary --; title: Proclus, In Rempublicam 5 and 6: contents --; title: Text and translation --; title: Proclus, on the Republic, essay 5 --; title: Proclus, on the Republic, essay 6.