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100 1 $aTzetzes, John,$dactive 12th century,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAllegories of the Odyssey /$cJohn Tzetzes ; translated by Adam J. Goldwyn and Dimitra Kokkini.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axxiv, 347 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aDumbarton Oaks medieval library ;$vDOML 56
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Allegories of the Odyssey -- Abbreviations -- Note on the Text -- Notes to the Text -- Notes to the Translation -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 $a"Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the ancient Greek language itself--had become almost unrecognizable to Byzantine Greek readers coming to the texts nearly two millennia later. The scholar, poet, and teacher John Tzetzes (ca. 1110-1180) joined the extensive tradition of interpreting Homer by producing his Allegories of the Iliad, dedicated to the foreign-born empress Eirene. Tzetzes later composed the Allegories of the Odyssey, a more advanced verse commentary, to explain Odysseus's journey and the pagan gods and marvels he encountered. Through historical allegory, the gods become ancient kings deified by the pagan poet; through astrological interpretation, they become planets whose positions and movements affect human life; through moral allegory Athena represents wisdom, Aphrodite desire. This edition presents the first translation of the Allegories of the Odyssey into any language."--$cPublisher's website.
520 8 $aThe Allegories of the Odyssey by John Tzetzes is a twelfth-century commentary on Homer's Odyssey in fifteen-syllable verse. Though the Allegories of the Odyssey can be read as a stand-alone work in its own right, it is preferable to regard it as the successor work to his Allegories of the Iliad. The Allegories of the Iliad can be divided stylistically into two sections. The first section, consisting of Books 1-15, is dedicated to the foreign-born empress Eirene (born Bertha von Sulzbach in Bavaria) and was meant to help familiarize her with one of the foundational works of the new Byzantine environment in which she found herself after her marriage to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos in 1146. This section consists of a book-by-book plot summary of Homer's Iliad interspersed with Tzetzes's own allegorical interpretation. At Book 16, however, the style changes dramatically: gone are the basic plot-level summaries, replaced instead with direct quotations from the Iliad that are then explained in allegorical terms.--$cProvided by publisher.
546 $aText in Greek with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
600 00 $aHomer.$tOdyssey.
600 00 $aHomer$xCriticism and interpretation.
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630 07 $aOdyssey (Homer)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01356149
650 0 $aEpic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aEpic poetry, Greek.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00913902
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aGoldwyn, Adam J.,$etranslator.
700 1 $aKokkini, Dimitra,$etranslator.
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830 0 $aDumbarton Oaks medieval library ;$v56.
852 00 $bglx$hPA5390$i.A6413 2019