Proclus the Successor on Poetics and the Homeric Poems: Essays 5 and 6 of His Commentary on the Republic of Plato

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

Author: Robert Lamberton
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 04/09/2013
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781589837898
ISBN10: 1589837894
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- Foreign Language Study | Ancient Languages (see also Latin)

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