Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004749085)

This Companion examines conceptions and uses of Homeric poetry in philosophy, literature, and scholarship from the sixth to the eighteenth-century, while also including excursions into the fine arts and music in modern times. Its eighteen chapters explore the central place of Homer in Byzantine culture; the subsequent revival of Homeric studies in the Italian Renaissance; allegorical exegesis and the close connection between poetics and rhetoric inherited from Antiquity; the evolution of Homeric scholarship from a humanistic and aesthetic to a more historicist approach.

Author: Christina-Panagiota Manolea
ISBN-10: 900474908X
ISBN-13: 9789004749085
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2025
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 1.00d