Homer the theologian: Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition 9780520054370, 9780520909205, 9780520066076

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
PREFACE (page vii)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS (page xv)
I THE DIVINE HOMER AND THE BACKGROUND OF NEOPLATONIC ALLEGORY (page 1)
II MIDDLE PLATONISM AND THE INTERACTION OF INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS (page 44)
III PLOTINIAN NEOPLATONISM (page 83)
IV THE INTERACTION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION AND DELIBERATE ALLEGORY (page 144)
V PROCLUS (page 162)
VI THE TRANSMISSION OF THE NEOPLATONISTS' HOMER TO THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES (page 233)
AFTERWORD PRECONCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING: THE ALLEGORISTS IN MODERN PERSPECTIVE (page 298)
APPENDIX 1 An Interpretation of the Modest Chariclea from the Lips of Philip the Philosopher. (page 306)
APPENDIX 2 Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, 1.341.25-343.15. (page 312)
APPENDIX 3 A Sampling of Proclus's Use of Homer. (page 315)
APPENDIX 4 The History of the Allegory of the Cave of the Nymphs. (page 319)
WORKS CITED: ANCIENT AND MEDIVAL AUTHORS (page 325)
MODERN AUTHORS (page 330)
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PASSAGE CITED (page 341)
INDEX OF GREEK TERMS (page 353)
GENERAL INDEX (page 355)

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE Peter Brown, General Editor

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143-46 208 1.4 190 145 203 Psalms

146-49 220216 44.23, 78.65 293 246 150 176, 114.1-2 151 216 154-59 170 Sallustius

159-64 18131,2 140 159 185, 194 140, 188 162-63 188 3-4 139 163-64 65, 194 4 141, 142, 143, 155, 171 163-72 25, 170 Sappho 164 1.4 176 165178 179fr.Seneca 158 . 181 Concerning the Gods and the Universe

165—66 219203 Epistles 166—67 8.24-—29

13 169 208 Song of Solomon 169—70 207 1.3 156, 307 173 196 Sophocles

173-77 195 fr. 561 (Troilus) 17 174 179, 196 Stobaeus 175-76 199-200 Eclogae (frs. of Porphyry)

176 31, 1.41.60 196 1.41.50, 53 114 177 .189 42, 115-18

177-78 37,115 114 177-99191 1881.41.61 1.51.54

178 2.1.19 113 179 191,192 192 Strabo

186 187 1.17 122 186-87 — 181 10.2 26-27 189—90 192 192 195 Thomas Aquinas 193 190, 191 Commentary on the Metaphysics of

193-94 8,190, 189 193 Aristotle 195-96 1.4.82-83 260 198 190, 191, 193 Summa Theologica 202-3 185 2.12.q.72.m.4, art. 3 270 125-28 318 Varro 128-31 66-68, 318 De lingua latina

2 96 63

5.7-8 46

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Virgil Georgics Aeneid 3 284

13 12 90, 159-69 269 4411 227 164 296

3 272-73 : 295 Xenophon

438-39 259 Symposium 7 310 9 602 296259 4.6 40

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INDEX OF GREEK TERMS

_ A few Greek words appear in the original in the text, because they are technical terms or otherwise resist satisfactory translation. Equivalents are offered here for the more important of these. aiveypa (riddle, enigma), 118, 119, vos (mind; in Plotinian Neoplatonism,

125n122, 128, 151, 156 the hypostasis intermediate between

aiviTropat (hint at, convey allegorically), Wux7n and 70 Gv), vii, 87, 95-99, 41, 48, 51, 65n68, 125122, 151, 202 104—6, 127, 141, 143, 154-55, 162, aKovo pa (saying; in Pythagoreanism, 166, 167—69, 189, 191, 203, 207, 210,

oral teaching), 36, 39, 40, 45-46 211, 221, 225-26, 230, 245 adhdnyopia (allegory, second meaning), ov, 76 (or 76 Ev) (the One, Being, the

48, 125, 187 highest of the three hypostases in

yéveos (birth, coming to be; in Neo- Plotinian Neoplatonism), 76-77, 87, platonism, the sub-lunar sphere 93-94, 106, 162-64, 189, 206, 217,

characterized by birth, change, and 231

death), 52, 53, 65, 71, 72, 77, 116-19, Tapatrétacpya (and zrapakdduppa)

143, 231,252 (screen, curtain), 80, 141n162, 185,

daipwv (divinity, lesser divinity, demon), 186, 188, 190, 196, 240, 246 viii, 72, 79, 89, 98, 113, 116, 133, 138, orotxetov (element, phoneme/letter),

163, 169, 220, 250, 257-59 70-97

dudvota (meaning, intention), 20, 64, 151, ovhr\aBy (aggregate, syllable), 76—77

225 Tumos (general character, type, model),

eiéwdov (image, phantom), 101—2 17, 23

deoddyos (theologian, early poet or inter- gavracia (imagination), 115, 225

preter of early poetry), 22-43, 85, gdpovyats (intention, purpose, pru-

129, 136, 160, 181, 183, 195, 297 dence), 123, 129, 207

\oyos (word, discourse, reason; in Neo- virdvota (hint, second or deeper mean-

platonism, an entity mediating be- ing, allegorical meaning), 48, 136—37 . tween levels of being, or hypo- wy (soul, life; in Plotinian Neo-

stases), 39, 42, 53, 82n113, 87-90, platonism, the third and lowest 117, 142, 165-69, 196, 225, 228, 230, of the three hypostases, in touch

312-14 with the non-being of matter), 87,

pavres (seer, prophet), 28 92, 105—6, 143, 162, 166 evn (Memory), 115

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GENERAL INDEX

Abelard, 287 298-305; in Neoplatonism, 21-22, Academy, 56-57, 75, 83n1 47-49 , Achilles, 3, 6, 18, 41, 179N57, 215, 220, —levels of: in Christian Neoplatonism,

265, 274; and Athena, 93-95, 203, 158-61; as distinguished by Dante, 260-61, 276; and Thetis, 250n63, 291-94; in Medieval exegesis, 283-

265, 277 84; multiplicity of, 20-21, 43; in

Adam, 46, 53 Philo, 47-53; in Porphyry, 115, 120Adrastus, 84 21, 127; in Proclus’s defense of HoAeneid. See Allegory; Augustine of mer, 185-88, 196-97, 216-21

Hippo; Virgil —literal meaning and: in Dante, 291-93;

Aeolus, 274 in Homeric interpretation, 224; in Aeschylus, 77 Julian, 139; in Philo, 47-53; in Agamemnon, 17, 18, 179n57, 206-7, 274 Porphyry, 124

Agenor, 220 —moral: Aeneid as, 270; in Dante, 291,

Ajax, 274 293; in Fulgentius, 281-82; in

Alain de Lille, 284, 286 Macrobius on Scipio’s dream, 271; Albertus Magnus, 270 in Neopythagoreanism, 115; Odyssey Albinus, Caecina, 263 as, 130, 224; in Pythagoreanism,

al-Birtini, 238 32-35, 43, 270 Albricus, 282 —mystical: in Christian authors, 78-81,

Alcaeus, 145n3 241—49; and early interpretations of

Alexander, 84 Homer, 12; in Heliodorus, 149-61; Alexandria, 26, 44, 45, 48, 53, 75, 80, 85, Iliad as, ix, 1, 43, 223-33; in Mac109. See also Clement of Alexandria; robius on Scipio's dream, 271; in

Origen the Christian; Philo Neoplatonism, 139, 288, 293, 318~24;

al-Farabi, 237, 239 Odyssey as, ix, 1, 43, 132-33, 222-33,

Allegory 318—24; in Porphyry, 108-10, 115; in

—defensive, 124, 183-84, 261n109 Proclus, 219—21; in Pythagoreanism,

—deliberate, x, 142, 145-50 31—43, 320; role of Philo in develop—interpretation of: Aeneid, 146-47, ment of, 44—51; and use of term the257-60, 270, 282n184, 284-88, 292, ologos, 27-31

294; in Arabic commentators, 239— —personification, 146, 273, 275-79, 284,

41; in Christianity, 144-61; in later 288-91

Latin authors, 286-92; in Medieval —physical: Iliad as, 32, 223-24; in Julian,

: period, 282-97; in modern period, 137-38; in Macrobius on Scipio’s

356 GENERAL INDEX Allegory, physical (continued) ories in, 257-60; and Platonism, 16, dream, 271; in Philo, 47; in Porphyry, 81, 91N33, 249-51, 256-61, 267;

129; in Proclus, 219-21; Pythag- treatment of Homer by, 227, 233n1, orean, 32—33, 43; in Stoicism, 143, 259-61

164N5 Averroes, 240

. Ambrose, Saint, 263 Avicenna, 237 Amelius, 84, 132

Ammonius Saccas, 45, 78, 84 Bachelard, G., 73

Anacreon, 1453 Basil of Caesarea, Saint, 139, 242, 243-44 Anaxagoras, 97n48 Battle of the gods. See Homer, Iliad Antenor, 5 Bernard Silvestris, 272, 284-85, 287, 289, Antiochus of Ascalon, 45, 46 292N212, 294 Aphrodite, 202, 250. See also Homer, Beutler, R., 54, 64n66, 176

Odyssey Bidez, J., 108, 110, 111

Apollo, 218, 219, 220 Blake, W., x, 234, 235 Apuleius, 98, 233, 260-61 Bloom, H., 145, 298

Arabic interpretive tradition. See Alle- Boethius, 249, 256, 274-79, 283, 286, 290

gory; Homer Boyancé, P., 33110, 35-36, 39, 46, 178

Arcesilaus, 56, 58 Bréhier, E., 103

Archilochus, 145n3 | Buffiére, F., 1n1, 32, 33, 44, 6466, 66,

Ares. See Homer, Odyssey 319-24

“Ares” (the philosopher), 248 Burkert, W., 34, 42, 324

Argonauts, 180 Byzantine interpretive tradition. See

Aristarchus, 26, 109, 113-14, 202 Homer Ariston of Chios, 58

Aristotle: in Dante, 289, 294-95; in list of Calchas, 2, 4 seven philosophers, 248; and Plato, Calcidius, 221n240, 236, 249, 250-56, 282 183-85, 188, 252; praise of Homer Callimachus, 176, 181 by, 237; as source for later commen- Calypso, 106—7, 225 tators, 112, 120, 202, 240-41, 252, Carcopino, J., 33110, 74 295; testimony on Pythagoreanism, Carneades, 56

36, 39, 43; translations of by later au- Cassiodorus, 256 thors, 262, 274, 275171; and the- Celsus, 81, 82n113

ologoi, 23-24, 27, 28 Chaldaean Oracles, 30, 169, 175, 180, 213,

Aristoxenus, 274 228n264

Arnobius, 250 Chapman, G., 8, 9, 22, 223, 234, 235

Artemidorus of Ephesus, 125 Chariclea. See Heliodorus; “Philip the

Artemis, 219n230 Philosopher” |

Aspasius, 84 Chartres, School of, 240, 247, 286-88 Astrology, 69, 71, 73, 163, 253-54, 318-19 Chrétien de Troyes, 287 Athena: allegorical use of, 65, 202, 276; Christianity: allegorical tradition in, 16,

and Achilles, 93-95, 203, 260-61, 78-82, 144-61, 233-34, 241—49; ety276; and Diomedes, 178, 276; and mological speculations in, 46—47; Pandarus, 19, 20; and Odysseus, 8, Julian’s attitudes toward, 136—39; and 175-76, 233n1; and Pandarus, 19, Neoplatonism, 30, 144-49, 156-61;

20, 207-8 and Numenius, 60-61, 75-76; Philo’s Atticus, 84. phyry, 53, 61. See also Exegesis Atlantis, myth of, 65 influence on, 53—54, 75-76; and Por-

Attis, 143, 261 Chrysippus, 21n54, 25-26, 210n191

Auerbach, E., 187 Cicero, 13, 24, 45, 66, 260n105, 264, 267, Augustine of Hippo, Saint: critique of 273. See also Scipio, dream of Aeneid by, 227, 257—60; language the- Cilento, V., 101

GENERAL INDEX 357 Circe, 8, 41-42, 106-7, 115-19, 153, 274, Diotima, myth of, 98

279, 295. See also Odysseus Dodds, E. R., 54, 180

Cleanthes, 265 Dorrie, H., 15, 180

Clement of Alexandria, 27, 45, 53, 55, Dreams, interpretation of, 150-51 } 65n68, 78-80, 146, 242-43, 284 Dronke, P., 287 “Cleomedes”, 248

Constantius, 135-36 Egypt, 23, 60, 62, 69, 71, 72, 110, 142, Copulation, myth of divine, 209-14. See 155, 253-54, 257 also Homer, Iliad: deception of Zeus Eidothea, viii, 227

Cornificius, 265 Empedocles, 116, 228 Cornutus, 187 Epicureanism, 81, 84, 222 Cosmology, 24, 30, 47, 77, 230-32, 252- Epimetheus, 103

54, 264, 270 Er, myth of, 7-8, 200, 270n149, 323;

Coulter, J., 18577, 215n211 Numenius’ commentary on, 37, Crates of Mallos, 26, 109 63-64, 69-73, 102-3; Porphyry and, Critic (xpitexds, criticus), role of in an- 115, 118-19; Proclus’ commentary

tiquity, 11~12, 120, 179 on, 66—73 (text: 66-68), 102—3, 202,

Cronius, 44, 54, 55, 84, 85, 111, 113, 221, 230, 232; Pythagoreanism in, 42,

121-23, 125, 128, 132, 197, 250, 102-3, 118 318-20 Erbse, H., 248 Cumont, F., 1n1 Erennius, 84

Cyclopes, 51 Eriugena, John Scotus, 232, 247, 287 Cynics, 58, 137, 138 Esthetics, 19, 185-88 Etymology: examples of, 28, 141, 212,

Dante: allegorical modes in, 86n15, 231Nn269, 252, 264, 266, 281; in 290-94; influences on, 8-9, 240-41, Lydus, 250; in Philo, 45—49; in 272, 289-90, 291—94; interpretation Plotinus, 86~87; in Proclus, 39-40, of Homer by, 282-83, 294-97; and 166, 200, 214-15, 221; origin of ininterpretive tradition, x, 234-35, terpretation by, 38—41, 280-82 282-83, 298-99; language in, 89, 171; Euclid. See Proclus letter to Can Grande of, 142, 186n82, Euhemerists, 24 289, 292—94; Platonism in, 289—90; Euripides, 251n71, 266 Pythagorean elements surviving in, Eusebius, 55, 60, 63 274; use of Virgil by, 288-94, 292-97 Eustathius, 95, 198, 233

Dares Phrygius, 285, 287, 295 Exegesis: in Alexandria, 44; in Christian-

DeLacey, P., 25 ity, 82, 160-61, 251, 283-84, 291-92;

Delatte, A., 32, 34-35, 43, 74, 319, 322, in Dante, 282-97; Neoplatonic, 197,

324 201, 261, 282-83, 318-24; in Plo-

De Lubac, Henri, 283-84 tinus, 275; in Porphyry, 113, 120-24;

Demetrius of Phaleron, 187n86 Pythagorean, 35-43, 74-75, 320; role Demodocus. See Homer, bards in of in ancient education, 13-14; Stoic, Derveni papyrus, ix, 12n28, 36n123, 299 45-48 Des Places, E., 57, 59, 77

Detienne, M., 32, 33110, 35, 39 Favonius Eulogius, 249, 272-73

Dictys Cretensis, 295 Festugiére, A. J., 66 Dillon, J., 54, 56, 64n66 Finsler, G., 234 Dilthey, W., 302, 303 Flamant, J., 266, 319

Diogenes Laertius, 16n43, 36n123, 60n53 Flavianus, Nichomachus, 263

Diomedes, 178, 276 Fortin, E., 243-44

Dionysius |

Dionysius the Areopagite, 232, 244. See Friedl, A. J., 198 also Platonism, Dionysian; Ps.- Fulgentius, 279-82, 285, 292, 294

358 GENERAL INDEX Gadamer, H.-G., 302, 303 260n105; Augustine's treatment of,

Gaius, 84 227, 233N1, 259-61; as authority on , Ganymede, 53 literature and philosophy, 12-14, 40, Gelzer, T., 149, 157-61 242-43, 253, 275-79, 294-97; bards Gnostics, xi, 42, 95, 106, 145 in, 3-4, 6-7, 22, 65, 189, 191, 201,

Gorgias, 207 226n257, 227; blindness of, 8—10,

Grammarians, 24, 26, 32 177N51, 196, 199-200, 211; Boethius’s

Gregory of Nyssa, 160 use of, 275—79; Byzantine inter-

Grube, G. M. A., viii-ix, 20, 299 preters of, 241-49; Christian interGuillaume de Conches, 287-88 preters of, 78-82, 145-48, 241-49 (see also Clement of Alexandria; Ori-

Hades, 73-74, 100, 114-15, 208, gen the Christian); defenses of,

215N212, 231 18—20 (see also Plato; Proclus); and Hazlitt, W., 301-2 22; as divine, 1-10, 136, 181, 236,

Hadot, P., 106 Demodocus, identification with, 9,

Hebrew scriptures, 44, 47, 99, 244-47, 239, 243-47, 254-55, 281-82; as edu250; in Dante, 291—94; in Prudentius, cator, 16-20, 275-79; as an Egyptian, 146-49; as read by Philo, 75-76, 82, 79, 151N23, 254; as etymological au211-12; as source for Numenius, 60, thority, 38~39, 280-83; and Hesiod,

69, 75-76, 80-81; use of by Au- 7, 11, 35-36; Hymn to Aphrodite, 100;

gustine, 257—59 Hymn to Apollo, 9; later Latin interHector, 18, 215, 220 preters of, 249-82; narrative voice in, Hegel, G. W. E., 301 5-6, 9; as philosopher, 113, 248, 253; Heidegger, M., 302-3 and Philosophy, 274-79, 294-97; as Helen, 5—6, 19, 196, 199-200, 207 the Poet, 22, 51, 83, 181, 202, 264,

Heliodorus, 149-61 294; treatment of by Pythagoreans,

Helios, 137 | 15, 19, 31-43, 73-75; as Sage, 1, 10,

Hephaestus, 51, 168, 204—6, 210, 212, 236, 237-39, 282; as seer, 9, 133,

219, 228~—29 253, 274, 282; seers in, 2, 4 (see also

Hera, 202; as anp, 20, 51, 137, 219N230, Tiresias); doctrine of souls in, 64-73,

259. See also Homer, Iliad; Juno 100-103, 114-19, 121, 251-52, 271-

Heracles, 100--102, 104, 191 72, 282 (see also Odysseus); as theoloHeraclitus (author of Homeric Allegories), gian, 1-10, 15, 22—43, 51, 129, 181, ixn7, 16, 26, 47, 52, 62, 145n3, 183- 260n105; and Tiresias, identification 84, 199N142, 224-25, 226N256, 253, with, frontispiece, 8, 9, 10, 22; and

254, 320 Virgil, 284-88, 294—97.: See also

Heraclitus of Ephesus, 254-55 Scholia on Homer

Hermeneutics, 47, 49, 54, 78, 109, 244— Homer, Iliad (episodes in): battle of the

45, 282-83, 301-5 gods, 32, 201, 210n189, 216-21, Hermes, 42, 117, 225 226-27; deception of Zeus, 11, 18Hermes Trismegistus, 30-31, 200, 257 19, 172—73, 190, 208-17, 246, 273;

Hermias, 30, 158, 200, 226 dream sent by Zeus to Agamemnon,

Herodotus, 11, 22—23, 25, 79 179N57, 206, 271; fall of Hephaestus, Hesiod, 29, 30, 156, 231N269, 237, 250; 204-6; Judgement of Paris, 202;

and Homer, 11, 35, 80, 86, 140; in pithoi on the doorstep of Zeus, 17, Julian, 137; myths in, 16-17, 103-6, 220-21, 226-27, 275; Zeus’s visit to 124; in Philo, 49, 87; in Proclus, the Ethiopians, 203-4, 271. See also 176~77; as theologos, 27, 28, 31. See Achilles; Athena; Trojan War

also Kronos Homer, Odyssey (episodes in): cattle of

Hierocles of Alexandria, 17749 the sun, 137; cave of the nymphs,

Hollander, R., 294n218 history of allegorical interpretation Homer: anthropomorphism in, 97-100, of, 256, 318-24; cave of the nymphs,

_ GENERAL INDEX 359 Numenius’s commentary on, 44; 55, of Homer and Plato, 71, 226, 236, 64—65, 66, 70-74, 109-10, 126, 128, 256, 270-72, 282, 283, 288-90; Satur130, 143, 270, 318-24; cave of the nalia of, 193-94, 263-71, 289, 319;

nymphs, Porphyry’s essay on, 29, sources for, 68-69, 71-74, 231269,

33N109, 44, 55, 64n66, 66, 70-73, 250, 263, 266, 271-73, 279, 288, 108-11, 114—32, 143, 151N23, 178, 318-19 200-1, 226, 234-35, 265, 269, 288, Marcellinus, Ammianus, 262

290, 318-24; cave of the nymphs, Margolin, J.-C., 186

Proclus’s summary of, 70~71, 73; cave Marie de France, 287 | of the nymphs, text of, 119-20; Poly- Marinus, 174-76, 180 phemus, 130-31; Proteus, viii, 172, Mars, 264-65 226-27; song of Ares and Aphrodite, Martianus Capella, 249, 273-74, 282, 11, 18, 19, 189, 201, 208, 226-30. See 283, 286, 290 also Calypso; Circe; Nekyia; Odys- Maximus of Tyre, 57

seus; Sirens Menelaus, 207, 227. See also Helen Homeridae of Samos, 35 Mentor, 56 Horace, 120, 277n176 Mercury, 273-74

262 41, 116

Metalanguage, 168-73, 207, 229-30

Iamblichus, 35, 39, 72n83, 134-35, 138, Metempsychosis (metensomatosis), 37,

Iliad. See Homer, Iliad Methodius of Olympus, 242-43 Isidore of Seville, 38, 46, 256, 280 Milky Way, 67, 70, 73-74, 115, 128 Milton, 86n15

Jesus, 60, 81, 147, 260 Mimesis, 18, 65, 87, 188-97, 215, 288 John the Evangelist, logos doctrine of, 88 Minos, 99-100

Jones, J. W., 269-70 Moderatus, 84 Judaism, 61, 69, 75, 78, 80, 82. See also Moses, 16145, 29, 30, 60, 242 Hebrew scriptures Mras, K., 77

Julian the Apostate, 134-39, 152, 241, Musaeus, x, 29, 35, 60, 80, 149, 157-61,

249, 262, 264, 265 260Nn105 Jupiter, 273. See also Zeus 275 | Music of the spheres, 7-8, 37-38, 52, Kindstrand, J. F., 201~2 230-32

Juno, 259, 273. See also Hera Muses, 4—6, 7, 10, 36, 196, 230, 231, 274,

Klibansky, R., 236, 239 Mythographers, 279-82, 285

Kraemer, J., 238 Myths: in education, 16-17, 197, 241—43; Kronos, 17, 87, 104-6, 141-42, 204, in Julian, 137, 152; in Plato, 16-17, 213n203, 264. See also Hesiod 29n86, 31, 37-38, 41—42, 98, 100,

118-19, 140, 170, 197, 202, 215-16,

Labeo, Cornelius, 249-50 220-21; in Sallustius, 139—43; Stoics’

Leonas, 174 treatment of, 13-14, 260; aS source Lévi-Strauss, C., 201 material, 24-25; use of by NeoLinus, 80, 260n105, 274 platonists, 13-14, 83-84, 170-71, Lloyd-Jones, H., 299 185-97, 203-5, 230-32. See also Er,

Longinus, 84, 86, 110-11, 188 myth of; Hesiod; Mythographers;

Lucian, 9, 54, 56 Plato; Socrates Luscinius, Gaius Fabricius, 273

Lydus, loannes, 55, 250, 262 Negative theology, 90, 244, 278 Nekyia (journey to the dead), 42—43, 70,

Macrobius: commentary on Cicero's 100, 115, 119, 191, 277n176 Scipio's Dream, 66, 71, 249, 269-73, Neoplatonism, x, 2, 10, 19, 127; and 289, 318~19; role of in transmission Christianity, 30, 138-39, 149, 156—

360 GENERAL INDEX Neoplatonism (continued) 145N3, 146, 210N191, 242, 260,

61; and Julian, 134-39; doctrine of 283-84 |

souls in, 159, 251-52, 271-72; influ- Orion, 174 ence of in later interpretations, 43, Orpheus, 22, 29-31, 35, 80, 177, 180,

234-36, 271-72, 284-88; and Nu- 228n264, 260N105, 274 menius, 63-65; and Pythagoras, 39; Orphic poetry, ix, 27, 28, 213, 299. See

and Sallustius, 139—43; use of term also Orpheus

reanism . 294 Pandora, 103-4 theologos, 22. See also Plato; Plotinus; Osiris, 144n1

Porphyry; Proclus Ouranos, 17, 105, 124, 204

Neopythagoreanism. See Pythago- Ovid, 146

New Testament, 60, 62, 81, 124, 156, 158, Pandarus. See Athena

Nicoll, A., 8 Paris, 35, 202

Nikolaos Mesarites, vii Parmenides, 176 Nonnus, 158 Patroclus, 6, 18, 215n212 Numbers, ideal, 40 Penelope, 7n13, 179N57 Numenius, 16, 19, 33, 45, 51, 53, 140, Pépin, J., 1n1, 48-49, 106, 120-21, 124,

143, 197, 211-12, 221N240, 250; atti- 288 tudes toward earlier literature of, 14, Peripatetics, ix, 84

55-58; doctrine of souls in, 65-74, Petrarch, 282 ; 103—4 (see also Er, myth of); explica- Pézard, A., 289-90 tion of Plato by, 55-69; and Judaism, Pfeiffer, R., 13 60-62, 75~-76; language theories of, Phemius. See Homer, bards in _ -76-77; life of, 54-57; Origen’s atti- “Philip the Philosopher,” 148-50, 152-

tudes toward, 61-62, 80-81; and 56; text of An Interpretation of the Plotinus, 61, 83~85, 93, 99, 102, 104; Modest Chariclea by, 306-11 and Porphyry, 55, 61, 66, 109-11, Philo of Alexandria, 16n43, 29, 30, 44—-

128-30, 256, 319; and Proclus, 66— 54, 75-76, 78, 146, 211-12, 284 71, 73-74; as a Pythagorean, 54, Philolaus, 27, 28, 322 68-69, 73-75; as source for later au- Philologia, personification of, 273-74 thors, 84, 253-56, 279, 318-24; use Philoponus, John, 65n68 of Homeric language by, 54-59, 69, Philosophy, personification of, 275-79 71-73, 90, 93, 110, 318-20. See also Photius, 177-78 Homer, Odyssey: cave of the nymphs Pisander, 30 Plato: critique of mimetic art, 188-97,

Oceanus, 252 215-16 (see also Mimesis); discussion Odysseus: allegorical interpretations of, of love in the dialogues, 155; doc41-43, 53, 71, 102, 106~7, 119-20, trine of souls in, 64—73, 100-3, 129—33, 153, 175-76, 221~32, 251- 118~—19, 202 (see also Er, myth of);

52, 279, 307; and Athena, 8, 175-76, and Homeric anthropomorphism, 233n1; in Dante, 295-97; wander- 97-100; language of, 45-48, 85—90,

ings of, 121-22, 125-27, 274 165-73, 205-7; in list of seven phiOdyssey. See Homer, Odyssey losophers, 248; methodology of, Old Testament. See Hebrew scriptures 38-39, 230; Neoplatonic reconcilia-

Olympiodorus, 30, 198 . tion of Homer and Plato, 66, 97—100, Oracles, 7, 12, 29, 30, 132-33, 134, 140- 112, 118-19, 134, 169—70, 182-85, 41, 153, 169, 177, 178n52, 213, 245, 194-97, 205-7, 219-21, 228-29, 232,

248, 266 242, 266, 275, 279, 282; and poetry,

Origen the Christian, 45, 53, 60n51, 16, 25, 28-29, 80, 180-85; Porphyry 61-62, 75-76, 78, 80-82, 84, 142, and tradition of commentary on, 63,

GENERAL INDEX 361 255-56; role of dialogues in trans-, 121, 132, 200-1 (see also Homer, Od__ - mission of Homer, 37-43, 99-100, yssey: cave of the nymphs); Homeric 180-81, 205-6, 235-37, 250-53, 261, interpretations by, 64, 108-33 (see 285-86; as source for Latin authors, also Homer, Odyssey: cave of the 289-90; treatment of by Numenius, nymphs); Homeric Questions of, 55-73; treatment of by Plotinus, 86; 108—14, 198; and Numenius, 55, 61, treatment of Homer as divine by, 66, 109-11, 128-30, 256, 319; and 2-3, 136, 181-85, 195, 282; use of Platonism, 30, 65n68; and Plotinus, dialogues in interpretation, 300-1. 83-84, 111-12, 131, 132, 256; and See also Myths; Neoplatonism; Pla- Proclus, 174-75, 178-79; and Py-

tonism; Socrates . thagoreanism, 30, 112, 115, 118-19;

Platonism, ix, 13-14, 16, 128, 133140; as source for later authors, 255Dionysian, 283-84, 287--88 (see also 56, 265-66, 279, 289; The Styx, Dionysius the Areopagite); Middle, 113~—19, 121; use of theologos, 24,

46, 49, 53-54, 82n1, 250; and Py- 27, 29, 30-31

thagoreanism, 34—43, 128, 177, 210, Poseidon, 65, 219230, 227, 228, 231 270-72; and Pythagoreanism in Nu- Posidonius, 251, 265

menius, 60-61, 75; and Pythago- Praechter, K., 120-21, 272-73 reanism in Porphyry, 30, 84-85, Praetextatus, Vettius Agorius, 249, 262-67 115-18. See also Neoplatonism Priam, 5, 18, 215 Plotinus, 15, 43, 44, 91; allegorical inter- Proclus, viii, 3, 25n70, 30, 129n130, 158,

pretation of Heracles by, 100—3; alle- 197-99, 244-48; attitudes toward gorical interpretations of Odysseus earlier literature, 14, 180~—83; attribuby, 102, 106-7; and Cronius, 85; doc- tion of Chrestomathy to, 177-78, trine of souls in, 86n15, 100-7, 156; 181n65, 201-2; classification of types

Hesiodic myths in, 86, 87, 103-6; of poetry by, 188-97, 258-59; comHomeric language in, 90-103, 202, mentary on Euclid by, 30-31, 173, 277-79; reconciliation of Homer and 224-25; commentary on Plato’s ParPlato by, 97-100; logos doctrine of, menides by, 225-26; commentary on 87-90, 165-66; negative theology of, Plato’s Republic by, 66-71, 164, 170, 90; Neoplatonism of, 83-85, 162-64; 175, 178-79, 181-97, 199, 226-32, and Numenius, 61, 83—85, 93, 99, 318 (see also Er, myth of); commen102, 104; oracle on fate of soul of, tary on Plato’s Timaeus by, 30, 65, 153; and Philo, 85; Platonic language 167—69, 175, 176, 181, 189, 190Ng9, in, 40, 85-90, 164-73; and Porphyry, 199N143, 221, 228-29, 312-14 (text);

83-84, 111—12, 131, 132, 256; Py- defense of Homer by, 19, 64n66, 70, | thagorean elements in, 82, 101~3; as 140, 153-54, 163-64, 169~70, 172-

source for later authors, 289 73, 178-79, 181-97, 208, 216, 226, Plutarch, ix, 21n54, 23, 38, 40-41, 185, 230, 235; demonology in, 98—99,

231n269, 248, 320, 322 217-21, 226-32, 258-59; interpreta-

Polemon, 56 tion of Iliad by, 199-221, 315-17; in-

Polyphemus, 130-31 terpretation of Odyssey by, 221-32, : Porphyry, 35, 42, 53, 143, 197, 212, 250, 315-17; life of, 162-63, 174-76; Neo304; allegory in, 115, 120-21, 127, platonic doctrines in, 162—71, 188-

129; association with Longinus, 97; and Numenius, 66-71, 73-74; 110-12; attitudes toward earlier physical allegory in, 219-21; and

literature, 14; and Christianity, 30, Porphyry, 164, 170, 174-75, 178-79; 82, 160-61; commentary on Plato's Pythagorean thought in, 39-40, Republic, 319 (see also Er, myth of); 209-10, 216-18; and theologoi, 30-

defense of Homer by, 19, 121-24; 31; use of Homer's blindness by, 8, , doctrine of souls in, 73-74, 113-19, 9-10, 177N51, 196, 199-200, 211

362 GENERAL INDEX Procopius of Gaza, 160 Servius, 224n246, 250, 262—64, 269-70, 282

Prometheus, 103-4 Severus, 84 | | Proteus, viii, 17, 37, 172, 226-27 Sheppard, A., 185n77, 190~—91, 200, Prudentius, x, 145-48, 158, 283, 290 201N150, 208n180, 210n189g, 214-15,

Ps.-Dionysius, 232n270, 246-47 247, 304N14 Ps.-Plutarch, 11n27, 14, 20n52, 36n125, Sibyl, 248 41, 110, 112-13, 118, 251-53, 268, Simonides, 29

320, 322 Sirens, 7, 10, 37, 52, 230-32, 243, 275, 238; allegorical interpretations in, Skylla, 51 ;

Pythagoreanism, ix, 2, 9, 15, 19, 21, 237, 281, 295

31-43, 73-75, 115, 178, 270-72, Socrates: attitudes toward myth and po320-24; doctrine of souls in, 73~74, etry, 23, 25, 102, 124, 140, 180-85, 101-2, 118—19, 271; Philolaus as 196, 197, 237, 243; condemnation of

source on, 28; sects in, 36; use of Homer by, 16-19, 70, 100, 124, 153- | Plato’s myths by, 38, 128. See also 54, 172-73, 182-85, 196-97, 198, Numenius; Platonism; Plotinus; Por- 215-16, 260; etymological specula-

phyry; Proclus tions and, 38-39, 165—66, 214; in text of Philip the Philosopher, 307;

Rahner, H., 242, 243 on uses of texts, 21, 159, 252, 300-1;

Raphael, 8—g as voice of Plato, 64—65. See also Plato Renaissance, x, 1, 9, 10, 146, 186n81, Sodano, A. R., 108

223, 234, 240 Solon, 176 Rhea, 213-14 Sontag, S., 299

273 Spercheios, 18

Rhetoric, 20, 40, 57, 187, 193, 201, 268, Sophistic, Second. See Second Sophistic

Richard of St.-Victor, 287 Speusippus, 34, 39

Ricoeur, P., 302 Stesichorus, 195-96

Romances, Greek, 148-53, 157, 160 Stobaeus, 42, 109, 113-15

Ross, D., 165 Stoicism, ix, 13-14, 21, 40-41, 56, 94,

Rufinus, 263 109, 251, 260n105; allegorical interpretation in, 25, 81, 143, 164n5,

Sallustius, 139—43, 148, 171, 188 210N191, 219, 260, 265-66; as source

Sappho, 176 for Philo’s allegorizing, 45-51, 75—76;

Sarpedon, 215n214 theology in, 26, 261

Satire, 55, 58-59, 220-21, 275, 286 Strabo, 24, 26-27, 121, 122, 138 Saturnalia of Macrobius. See Macrobius Structuralism, 201

Schlegel, F., 301 Styx, The. See Porphyry Schleiermacher, F., 301 Suda, 64n66, 176, 177

Scholia on Homer, ix, 20, 32, 38, 52, 94, Symmachus, 263, 267-68

112, 114, 194n124, 198, 219, 254, Synesius, 144n1

320-24 Syrianus, 134, 164n5, 176-77, 197-98,

School of Chartres. See Chartres, 200, 206, 208, 210, 244 School of

Schrader, H., 108, 110 Tate, J., 2 Scipio, dream of (in Cicero’s De re pub- Taylor, T., x, 301-2 lica): commentary by Favonius Eu- Telemachus, 7n13

logius, 272-73; commentary by Telephus of Pergamon, 16

318-19 Thales, 252 Macrobius, 66, 71, 249, 269-73, 289, Tethys, 252

Second Sophistic, 57, 193, 201 Theagenes and Chariclea. See Heliodorus;

Seneca, 13 Philip the Philosopher

GENERAL INDEX 363 Theagenes of Rhegium, 15, 32, 322 Virgil, 13, 146, 147, 233-34, 235, 274; in

Themis, 219 Dante, 288—90, 292—97; and Homer, Theoclymenus, 2 294-97; Macrobius’s treatment of,

Theodoret, 65n68, 260 264, 267-70; as philosopher, 285-87. Theophanes the Keramite, 148n12 See also Allegory; Augustine of

Theophilus of Edessa, 238 Hippo; Servius

277 Wallis, R. T., 86

Thetis, 17, 203, 215n214, 250n63, 265,

Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 240, 241, Walzer, R., 240—41

260n105, 289 Wolfson, H. A., 284

Thrasyllus, 84

Tigerstedt, E. N., 34n114 Xanthus, 219, 220

Timon of Phlius, 58 Xenocrates, 34, 169

Homer 260

Tiresias, 2, 8, 10, 22, 130, 132. See also Xenophanes of Colophon, 11, 15, 35, 49, Trojan War: as metaphor, 19, 100, 199-202, 221, 260N105, 294; as poetic Yeats, W. B., 206 fiction, 285, 287, 294—95; in Origen,

81 Zeller, E., 34

Trouillard, J., 167 Zeno, 56, 58-59 Zeus, 99; allegorical treatment of, 219-

Ulysses (Ulixes), 274, 281-82, 296. See 21, 231, 238, 246-47; birth of, 104-6;

also Odysseus and Pandarus, 17; as solar deity, 137,

. 265-66, 278-79. See also Homer, Il-

Varro, 45, 46, 260 iad; Jupiter; Kronos Victorinus, Marius, 249, 256-57 Ziehen, L., 24

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