Homer the rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad
This book is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This book explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. Moreover, by placing Eustathios' reading of the Iliad in the long traditions of earlier literary criticism, rhetorical thought, and Homeric exegesis, it sheds light on the conceptual framework governing Eustathios' analysis of Homeric poetry and reassesses his contribution to the history of both rhetoric and the reception of Homer. With chapters on Eustathios' hermeneutic programme as well as his views on the poet's rhetorical virtuosity, the poem's rhetorical plausibility, and the different functions of the Homeric gods, the book charts Eustathios' literary criticism of the Iliad. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Note on Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Eustathios of Thessalonike and Komnenian Byzantium -- Homer in Byzantium -- Homer the Rhetorician -- Eustathios on the Composition of the Iliad -- 1. The Proem to the Commentary on the Iliad: Eustathios' Hermeneutic Programme -- The Wise Homer and His Erudite Exegete -- Homer and Eustathios as Teachers of Rhetoric -- Eustathios on History, Myth, and Allegory in Homeric Poetry -- Conclusion -- 2. The Skilful Composition of the Iliad -- Ancient Literary and Rhetorical Theories on Skilful Composition -- Eustathios on Homer's Skilful Selection and Arrangement of Subject Matter -- Principles and Techniques of Homer's Skilful Composition -- Eustathios on Homer's Skilful Composition: The Catalogue of Ships as Case Study -- Conclusion -- 3. The Plausible Composition of the Iliad -- Plausibility in Ancient Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Theory -- Eustathios on Homeric Techniques for Establishing Plausibility (1): Plausible Content -- Eustathios on Homeric Techniques for Establishing Plausibility (2): Presentation and Formulation -- Eustathios on Homer's Plausible Composition: Priam's Visit to Achilles as Case Study -- Conclusion -- 4. The Gods and the Composition of the Iliad -- The Homeric Gods in Ancient and Byzantine Exegesis -- Eustathios on the Gods in Bodily Form -- The Gods as Allegories of the Poet's Intellect -- The Gods as Anagogical Allegories -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: The Proem to the Commentary on the Iliad -- Appendix II: Eustathios on Homeric Similes -- Appendix III: Eustathios on Invocations of the Muses -- References -- Glossary -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
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| title | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad |
| title_auth | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad |
| title_exact_search | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad |
| title_full | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad Baukje van den Berg |
| title_fullStr | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad Baukje van den Berg |
| title_full_unstemmed | Homer the rhetorician Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad Baukje van den Berg |
| title_short | Homer the rhetorician |
| title_sort | homer the rhetorician eustathios of thessalonike on the composition of the iliad |
| title_sub | Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad |
| topic | Homer / Iliad Homer / Criticism and interpretation Homer / Iliad / Criticism, Textual Eustathius / Archbishop of Thessalonica / -approximately 1194 / Criticism and interpretation Eustathius Thessalonicensis 1115-1195 Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem (DE-588)4428707-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Homer / Iliad Homer / Criticism and interpretation Homer / Iliad / Criticism, Textual Eustathius / Archbishop of Thessalonica / -approximately 1194 / Criticism and interpretation Eustathius Thessalonicensis 1115-1195 Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem Hochschulschrift |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865434.001.0001 |
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