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Homer and the question of strife from Erasmus to Hobbes / Jessica Wolfe

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Wolfe, Jessica
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 607 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Homer, Erasmus, and the problem of strife -- The remedy of contraries : Melanchthon, Rabelais, and epic parody -- Spenser, Homer, and the mythography of strife. Part 1 : the concatenation of virtue -- Part 2 : the two faces of Atê -- Chapman's ironic Homer -- The razor's edge : Homer, Milton, and the problem of deliberation. Part 1 : the razor's edge -- Part 2 : moral horizons : Milton's Horai -- Hobbe's Homer and the idols of the Agora -- Epilogue : the Homeric contest from Vico to Arendt.
Summary
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.
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9781442622678 (electronic bk.)
1442622679 (electronic bk.)
9781442650268 (bound)
1442650265 (bound)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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