Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes / / Jessica Wolfe.
From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and...
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Wolfe, Jessica, author. Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes / Jessica Wolfe. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2015 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife -- Chapter One. Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife -- Chapter Two. The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody -- Chapter Three. Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife -- Chapter Four. Chapman's Ironic Homer -- Chapter Five. The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation -- Chapter Six. Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora -- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer's epic poems - the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him - served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and interpret the era's intellectual, political, and theological struggles.Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes elegantly exposes the ways in which writers and thinkers as varied as Erasmus, Rabelais, Spenser, Milton, and Hobbes presented Homer as a great champion of conflict or its most eloquent critic. Jessica Wolfe weaves together an exceptional range of sources, including manuscript commentaries, early modern marginalia, philosophical and political treatises, and the visual arts. Wolfe's transnational and multilingual study is a landmark work in the study of classical reception that has a great deal to offer to anyone examining the literary, political, and intellectual life of early modern Europe. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019) Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism. European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism. Social conflict in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2015 9783110438673 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 9783110606812 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2019 9783110658781 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package 2014-2015 9783110490930 print 9781442650268 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442622678 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442622678.jpg |
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Wolfe, Jessica, Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife -- Chapter One. Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife -- Chapter Two. The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody -- Chapter Three. Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife -- Chapter Four. Chapman's Ironic Homer -- Chapter Five. The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation -- Chapter Six. Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora -- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife -- Chapter One. Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife -- Chapter Two. The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody -- Chapter Three. Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife -- Chapter Four. Chapman's Ironic Homer -- Chapter Five. The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation -- Chapter Six. Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora -- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homer and the Question of Strife -- Chapter One. Homer, Erasmus, and the Problem of Strife -- Chapter Two. The Remedy of Contraries: Melanchthon, Rabelais, and Epic Parody -- Chapter Three. Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife -- Chapter Four. Chapman's Ironic Homer -- Chapter Five. The Razor's Edge: Homer, Milton, and the Problem of Deliberation -- Chapter Six. Hobbes's Homer and the Idols of the Agora -- Epilogue: The Homeric Contest from Vico to Arendt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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