Heraclitus: Homeric Problems

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-13082-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 146 Seiten, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: SBL - Writings from the Greco-Roman World

This is the first English translation of the only extended ancient treatise on Homer that survives today. It provides a detailed allegorical discussion of controversial passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey and is a mine of information on ancient approaches to allegory and to literary criticism.

'Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)'

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russell, Donald

Konstan, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Donald A. Russell is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is the editor and translator of Quintilian: The Orator’s Education (Harvard University Press), the editor of Libanius: Imaginary Speeches (Duckworth) and Longinus Libellus de Sublimitate (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations (Oxford University Press).
David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the translator of Simplicius on Aristotle’s Physics 6 (Cornell University Press and Duckworth) and the author of numerous books, including Greek Comedy and Ideology (Oxford University Press), Friendship in the Classical World (Cambridge University Press), and Philodemu: On Frank Criticism (co-author; Society of Biblical Literature).