Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

Wolfe, Jessica

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“…7 Melanchthon and his circle at Wittenberg in the 1530s and 1540s laid the foundations of these 6 Crucial exceptions include Hartfelder, 363-65; Parente; Rhein; Ritoók-Szalay; Lurie, 2004Lurie, , 2006Lurie, , and 2012. 7 Pollard, 2017; Demetriou and Pollard;Leo, 2015Leo, , 2016Leo, , and 2019Wolfe, 2015 andMiola, 2014 andCrawforth;Ryan, 2015 later developments. Reconciling deep piety with sophisticated Aristotelian theory, their answers to the vexed problems of Christian tragedy complicate our overly neat histories of classical reception.…”

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Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe

Lazarus

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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Amid the devastation of the Schmalkaldic War (1546–47), Philip Melanchthon and his colleagues at Wittenberg hastily compiled a Latin edition of Sophocles from fifteen years of teaching materials and sent it to Edward VI of England within weeks of his coronation. Wittenberg tragedy reconciled Aristotelian technology, Reformation politics, and Lutheran theology, offering consolation in the face of events that themselves seemed to be unfolding on a tragic stage. A crucial but neglected source of English and Continental literary thought, the Wittenberg Sophocles shaped the reception of Greek tragedy, tragic poetics, and Neo-Latin and vernacular composition throughout the sixteenth century.

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Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe

Lazarus

2020

Renaiss. Q.

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“…Honorable exceptions include Aryanpur, Mueller, Revard, Loudon, “Milton” and “Pivotal,” Burrow, Martindale, and most recently, Machacek. See also Wolfe's recent work on Milton and Homer.…”

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