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Allegories of the Odyssey: John Tzetzes

by: Goldwyn, A.J. Kokkini, D.

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Category: Dumbarton Oaks: Papers / Studies / Medieval Library / Symposia and Colloquia
Code: 25429
ISBN-13: 9780674238374 / 978-0-674-23837-4
ISBN-10: 0674238370 / 0-674-23837-0
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 347
Book Condition: New
Comments: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 56

Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics—even the ancient Greek language itself—had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes (ca. 1110–1180) joined the extensive tradition of interpreting Homer by producing his Allegories of the Iliad, dedicated to the foreign-born empress Eirene. Tzetzes later composed the Allegories of the Odyssey, a more advanced verse commentary, to explain Odysseus?s journey and the pagan gods and marvels he encountered. Through historical allegory, the gods become ancient kings deified by the pagan poet; through astrological interpretation, they become planets whose positions and movements affect human life; through moral allegory Athena represents wisdom, Aphrodite desire. This edition presents the first translation of the Allegories of the Odyssey into any language.

ntroduction
The Date of the Work and the Circumstances of Its Commission
The Life of John Tzetzes
Tzetzes?s Allegorical Method
Tzetzes, Eustathios of Thessalonike, and Homeric Criticism in the Twelfth Century
Note on the Translation
Notes
Allegories of the Odyssey
Abbreviations
Note on the Text
Notes to the Text
Notes to the Translation
Bibliography
Index

 
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Allegories of the Odyssey: John Tzetzes

by: Goldwyn, A.J. Kokkini, D.

  • ISBN-13: 9780674238374 / 978-0-674-23837-4
  • ISBN-03: 0674238370 / 0-674-23837-0
  • Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019

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