Homer the Rhetorician : Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

van den Berg, Baukje

Oxford University Press（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192865434
• DDC分類 888.2

Full Description

Homer the Rhetorician 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 study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. 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.

Contents

Introduction
1: The Proem to the Commentary on the Iliad: Eustathios' Hermeneutic Programme
2: The Skilful Composition of the Iliad
3: The Plausible Composition of the Iliad
4: The Gods and the Composition of the Iliad
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