
- •Preface
- •Acknowledgments
- •Abbreviations
- •I The Divine Homer and the Background of Neoplatonic Allegory a. Homer's Pretensions
- •B. Interpretation, Allegory, and the Critics of Homer
- •C. Homer as Theologos
- •D. The Pythagoreans
- •II Middle Platonism and the Interaction of Interpretive Traditions a. Philo of Alexandria
- •B. Numenius The Uses of Literature
- •Sources
- •Conclusion
- •C. Clement and Origen
- •III Plotinian Neoplatonism a. Plotinus Language and Literature
- •B. Porphyry Porphyry and Homer
- •The Cave of the Nymphs
- •C. Julian and Sallustius
- •IV The Interaction of Allegorical Interpretation and Deliberate Allegory
- •V Proclus a. Introduction
- •B. Language as a System of Meaning
- •C. Myths or Texts?
- •D. The Major Exegesis of Homer in the Commentary on the Republic Proclus's Motives
- •Conceptual Framework
- •E. The Meaning of the Iliad and Odyssey
- •The Iliad
- •The Odyssey
- •VI The Transmission of the Neoplatonists' Homer to the Latin Middle Ages a. The Paths of Transmission
- •B. The Arabic Tradition
- •C. The Greek East
- •D. The Latin Tradition
- •E. The Late Middle Ages and Dante
- •Afterword Preconception and Understanding: The Allegorists in Modern Perspective
- •Appendix I An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher
- •Appendix II Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15
- •Appendix III a Sampling of Proclus's Use of Homer
- •Appendix IV The History of the Allegory of the Cave of the Nymphs
- •Works Cited Ancient and Medieval Authors
- •Modern Authors
- •Ancient and Medieval Passages Cited
- •Index of Greek Terms
- •General Index
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in the text and in footnotes to designate reference works and series.
CHLGEMP |
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy , edited by A. H. Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. |
D-K |
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker , Greek text and German translation by Hermann Diels, 10th edition, edited by Walther Kranz. Berlin: Weidmann, 1960-61. |
GCS |
Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte , begun by the Kirchenväter-Commission der königlichen preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and continued by the Kommission für späitantike Religions-geschichte der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Various editors. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs (succeeded after 1941 by Akademie-Verlag, Berlin), 1899-in progress. |
KP |
Der kleine Pauly , Lexikon der Antike auf der Grundlage von Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft . . ., edited by Konrat Ziegler, Walter Sontheimer, and Hans Gertner. Stuttgart: Alfred Druckenmüller, 1964. 75. |
Lampe |
A Patristic Greek Lexicon , edited by G. W. H. Lampe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. |
LSJ |
A Greek-English Lexicon , compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, revised and augmented throughout |
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by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, 9th edition, with supplement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. |
PG |
Patrologiae cursus completus, series Graeca , edited by J.-P. Migne. 162 vols. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1857-66. |
PL |
Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina , edited by J.-P. Migne. 222 vols. +4 vols. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 2844-64. |
P-W |
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft , new reworking begun by Georg Wissowa . . . . Munich: Alfred Druckenmüller (succeeded after 1940 by J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart), 1893-1974. References to P-W are based on the pattern used by John P. Murphy in his Index to the Supplements and Supplemental Volumes of Pauly-Wissowa's R.E . (Chicago: Ares, 1976), but his Roman numerals are replaced by Arabic numerals. The number of the volume is followed by "a" if the second series is meant, and the number of the half-volume (1 or 2) follows. Dates are also included. |
Real. Ant. Chr. |
RealIexikon für Antike und Christentum , edited by Theodor Klauser. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1950-in progress. |
SC |
Sources chrétiennes , founded by Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou. Claude Mondésert, director. Various editors. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1941-in progress. |
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