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Allegories of the Iliad
John Tzetzes
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Description for Allegories of the Iliad
Hardback. As a didactic explanation of pagan ancient Greek culture to Orthodox Christians, John Tzetzes's Allegories of the Iliad is deeply rooted in the mid-twelfth-century circumstances of the cosmopolitan Comnenian court. As a critical reworking of the Iliad, it is part of the millennia-long global tradition of Homeric adaptation. Num Pages: 601 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 210 x 37. Weight in Grams: 722.
In the early 1140s, the Bavarian princess Bertha von Sulzbach arrived in Constantinople to marry the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos. Wanting to learn more about her new homeland, the future empress Eirene commissioned the grammarian Ioannes Tzetzes to compose a version of the Iliad as an introduction to Greek literature and culture. He drafted a lengthy dodecasyllable poem in twenty-four books, reflecting the divisions of the Iliad, that combined summaries of the events of the siege of Troy with allegorical interpretations. To make the Iliad relevant to his Christian audience, Tzetzes reinterpreted the pagan gods from various allegorical perspectives. As ... Read more
In the early 1140s, the Bavarian princess Bertha von Sulzbach arrived in Constantinople to marry the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos. Wanting to learn more about her new homeland, the future empress Eirene commissioned the grammarian Ioannes Tzetzes to compose a version of the Iliad as an introduction to Greek literature and culture. He drafted a lengthy dodecasyllable poem in twenty-four books, reflecting the divisions of the Iliad, that combined summaries of the events of the siege of Troy with allegorical interpretations. To make the Iliad relevant to his Christian audience, Tzetzes reinterpreted the pagan gods from various allegorical perspectives. As ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
726g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674967854
SKU
V9780674967854
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About John Tzetzes
Adam J. Goldwyn is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature and English at North Dakota State University. Dimitra Kokkini is Associate Lecturer in Classics at Birkbeck, University of London.
Reviews for Allegories of the Iliad
Goldwyn and Kokkini have provided English-speakers with a wonderful edition of Ioannes (John) Tzetzes's Allegories of the Iliad... The poem itself is beautiful and can be appreciated on its own. Scholars, however, will take a special interest in the translators' faithful yet fluid rendering of the Greek... Many thanks are due the translators and Harvard University Press for making this ... Read more