Studies In Greek Allegorical Interpretation
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Studies in Greek Allegorical Interpretation: I. Sketch of Allegorical Interpretation Before Plutarch. II. Plutarch
| Author | : Anne Bates Hersman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 74 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : Euhemerism |
| ISBN | : |
Studies in Greek Allegorical Interpretation: I. Sketch of Allegorical Interpretation Before Plutarch. II. Plutarch
| Author | : Anne Bates Hersman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : Euhemerism |
| ISBN | : |
How Philosophers Saved Myths
| Author | : Luc Brisson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2008-11-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0226075389 |
This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.
Amphoteroglossia
| Author | : Panagiotis Roilos |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in twelfth-century Byzantine society. By examining the indigenous rhetorical concept of amphoteroglossia, this book probes unexplored aspects of the re-inscription of inherited allegorical, comic, and rhetorical modes in the Komnenian novels, and offers new methodological directions for the study of Byzantine secular literature in its cultural complexities. The creative re-appropriation of the established generic conventions of the ancient Greek novel by the medieval Greek novelists, it is argued in this wide-ranging study, has invested these works with a dynamic dialogism. In this book, Roilos shows that this interdiscursivity functions on two pivotal axes: on the paradigmatic axis of previously sanctioned ancient Greek and--less evidently but equally significantly--Christian literature, and on the syntagmatic axis of allusions to the broader twelfth-century Byzantine cultural context.
Interpretation and Allegory
| Author | : Whitman |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2022-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004453598 |
Western literary, philosophical, and religious traditions from Plato and Paul to Augustine and Avicenna have utilized, exploited, or been subjected to allegorical interpretation. Naturally developing a composite picture of interpretive allegory from such a large landscape faces numerous difficulties. As the editor puts it, “to imagine a ‘definitive’ account of the theory and practice of allegorical interpretation in the West would require something of an allegorical vision in its own right.” With that caveat in mind, however, the international team of contributors—from a variety of disciplines—offers a “historical and conceptual framework” for understanding interpretive allegory in the West, from antiquity through the early and late medieval and renaissance periods, and from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
Mysteriously Meant
| Author | : Don Cameron Allen |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2020-02-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1421435284 |
Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
| Author | : David Dawson |
| Publisher | : University of California Presson Demand |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780520071025 |
"During the last few years scholars have, really for the first time, begun to take allegorical interpretation seriously as a subject of study. Dawson's book is the best so far. He is careful to situate allegory historically as a cultural practice. Allegory is not a technique of willful misreading or subjective play. It is the way ancient Alexandria, made up as it was of multiple conflicting traditions and incompatible forms of life, made sense of itself. Dawson's close study of how ancient writers actually worked--how they studied and thought--is a model of historical and critical research. Classicists, literary and cultural critics, biblical scholars and theologians of every tradition will have much to learn from this superb and beautifully written book."--Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame "This approach to allegory, which discriminates among past disputes and present positions, will confirm . . . that the varying sociocultural functions of allegory . . . needed the fuller exposition Dawson has given them."--Frank Kermode "During the last few years scholars have, really for the first time, begun to take allegorical interpretation seriously as a subject of study. Dawson's book is the best so far. He is careful to situate allegory historically as a cultural practice. Allegory is not a technique of willful misreading or subjective play. It is the way ancient Alexandria, made up as it was of multiple conflicting traditions and incompatible forms of life, made sense of itself. Dawson's close study of how ancient writers actually worked--how they studied and thought--is a model of historical and critical research. Classicists, literary and cultural critics, biblical scholars and theologians of every tradition will have much to learn from this superb and beautifully written book."--Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
| Author | : David Dawson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520910389 |
Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: "You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently." David Dawson insists that ancient allegory is best understood not simply as a way of reading texts, but as a way of using non-literal readings to reinterpret culture and society. Here he describes how some ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian interpreters used allegory to endorse, revise, and subvert competing Christian and pagan world views. This reassessment of allegorical reading emphasizes socio-cultural contexts rather than purely formal literary features, opening with an analysis of the pagan use of etymology and allegory in the Hellenistic world and pagan opposition to both techniques. The remainder of the book presents three Hellenistic religious writers who each typify distinctive models of allegorical interpretation: the Jewish exegete Philo, the Christian Gnostic Valentinus, and the Christian Platonist Clement. The study engages issues in the fields of classics, history of Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism, literary criticism and theory, and more broadly, critical theory and cultural criticism.
Homer the Theologian
| Author | : Robert Lamberton |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 1989-04-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0520066073 |
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 in Dante.
