Cristoforo Kondoleon:
Christophoros Kontoleon
Cristoforo Kondoleon: Scritti omerici - xxxvi, 151 p., ill.; 26 cm - Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 271 0777-978X Bibliothèque de Byzantion; 17 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"What moral or allegorical lessons can Homer's epics teach? Six essays by Christophoros Kondoleon, a 16th-century Greek scholar working in Rome during the last phase of Italian humanism, illustrate the moral qualities (esp. the autourgia) of the heroes, provide close readings of the two proems and of the description of Agamemnon's panoply in Iliad 11, answer a collection of miscellaneous, mostly philosophical "Homeric questions", and gather passages "on the good general (and soldier) according to Homer". While sometimes overtly indebted to the approaches of earlier Homerists (from Aristotle to ancient scholia, from Porphyry to Eustathios of Thessalonike, etc.), Kondoleon's treatises are unique both as original products in their own right, and as the only truly exegetical writings on Homer in Greek humanism. The present book provides the first critical edition (in two cases, the editio princeps) of these texts, with facing Italian translation and an introductory essay sketching their main features, their cultural significance, and some of their sources."
Text in Greek with Italian translation on facing pages; introductory matter in Italian.
9789042934290
0777-978X
2018297098
Homer--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800
Greek literature--Rome--16th century--Criticism
Cristoforo Kondoleon: Scritti omerici - xxxvi, 151 p., ill.; 26 cm - Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 271 0777-978X Bibliothèque de Byzantion; 17 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"What moral or allegorical lessons can Homer's epics teach? Six essays by Christophoros Kondoleon, a 16th-century Greek scholar working in Rome during the last phase of Italian humanism, illustrate the moral qualities (esp. the autourgia) of the heroes, provide close readings of the two proems and of the description of Agamemnon's panoply in Iliad 11, answer a collection of miscellaneous, mostly philosophical "Homeric questions", and gather passages "on the good general (and soldier) according to Homer". While sometimes overtly indebted to the approaches of earlier Homerists (from Aristotle to ancient scholia, from Porphyry to Eustathios of Thessalonike, etc.), Kondoleon's treatises are unique both as original products in their own right, and as the only truly exegetical writings on Homer in Greek humanism. The present book provides the first critical edition (in two cases, the editio princeps) of these texts, with facing Italian translation and an introductory essay sketching their main features, their cultural significance, and some of their sources."
Text in Greek with Italian translation on facing pages; introductory matter in Italian.
9789042934290
0777-978X
2018297098
Homer--Criticism and interpretation--Early works to 1800
Greek literature--Rome--16th century--Criticism