Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Introduction
- Homer in Antiquity
- Homer and the Latin West in the Middle Ages
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 1: The Byzantine Reception of Homer and His Export to Other Cultures
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 2: Homer after Byzantium, from the Early Ottoman Period to the Age of Nationalisms
- Homer in Renaissance Europe (1488‒1649)
- Homer in Early Modern Europe
- The Reception of Homer since 1900
- Homer: Image and Cult
- Key Topics
- Albert Bates Lord
- Allegory and Allegorical Interpretation
- Aristotle and Homer
- Athens and Homer
- Biographies of Homer
- Chaucer and Homer
- Dante and Homer
- The Homeric Question
- Milman Parry
- Plato and Homer
- Plutarch and Homer
- Shakespeare and Homer
- Jean de Sponde and Homer
- Vergil and Homer
- Simone Weil and the Iliad
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Dante and Homer
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Introduction
- Homer in Antiquity
- Homer and the Latin West in the Middle Ages
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 1: The Byzantine Reception of Homer and His Export to Other Cultures
- Homer in Greece from the End of Antiquity 2: Homer after Byzantium, from the Early Ottoman Period to the Age of Nationalisms
- Homer in Renaissance Europe (1488‒1649)
- Homer in Early Modern Europe
- The Reception of Homer since 1900
- Homer: Image and Cult
- Key Topics
- Albert Bates Lord
- Allegory and Allegorical Interpretation
- Aristotle and Homer
- Athens and Homer
- Biographies of Homer
- Chaucer and Homer
- Dante and Homer
- The Homeric Question
- Milman Parry
- Plato and Homer
- Plutarch and Homer
- Shakespeare and Homer
- Jean de Sponde and Homer
- Vergil and Homer
- Simone Weil and the Iliad
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Dante did not read Homer but thanks to the Latin tradition valued him highly: for Dante, Homer was such a paragon of poetic achievement that, in the Divine Comedy, he stands out even amongst Limbo’s “virtuous pagans” (including Dante’s own poetic master, Virgil). That complex reception is crystallized in Dante’s depiction of Ulysses (Odysseus), a sinner who is yet a “grand shade” described in language otherwise applied only to the spur of Dante’s spiritual journey, Beatrice.
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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer , pp. 582 - 584Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020