2010
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511761744
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Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature

Abstract: Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fict… Show more

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“…I hesitate to subscribe to the strong version of Jones's hypothesis and, instead, believe that Lucian takes aim at a specific argumentative practice in The Lover of Lies, namely making a claim of autopsy in a philosophical argument. The reason for my hesitancy is that one of Lucian's favorite comic ploys is to create incongruous scenarios, whether it be by 'juxtaposing famous figures either from vastly different time periods, cultural spheres, or both', as occurs on the Island of the Blessed in True Stories (see Kim [2010], 157), or by portraying a character type behaving completely out of character. In The Lover of Lies, Lucian seems to invent a scenario where philosophers tell the same kinds of stories that professional aretalogoi told at first-and second-century dinner parties; see Ogden (2007), 5f.…”
Section: Autopsy and Authority In Orationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I hesitate to subscribe to the strong version of Jones's hypothesis and, instead, believe that Lucian takes aim at a specific argumentative practice in The Lover of Lies, namely making a claim of autopsy in a philosophical argument. The reason for my hesitancy is that one of Lucian's favorite comic ploys is to create incongruous scenarios, whether it be by 'juxtaposing famous figures either from vastly different time periods, cultural spheres, or both', as occurs on the Island of the Blessed in True Stories (see Kim [2010], 157), or by portraying a character type behaving completely out of character. In The Lover of Lies, Lucian seems to invent a scenario where philosophers tell the same kinds of stories that professional aretalogoi told at first-and second-century dinner parties; see Ogden (2007), 5f.…”
Section: Autopsy and Authority In Orationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…13 Homero siempre es el referente de la tradición clásica, también en época imperial, cf. Kim (2010) o Hunter (2018.…”
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“…1; Webb (1999); Elsner (2002); Bartsch and Elsner (2007); Webb (2009); de Jong (2011); Squire (2015); Squire and Elsner (2016). Kim (2010) ch. 6 and Whitmarsh (2013) are the two best recent discussions of the Heroicus .…”
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