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Project
Commenting on, criticizing and rewriting Homer in Philostratos’ Heroikos
The thesis will be an analysis of the relationship between rewriting the Trojan War and commenting on the Iliad and the Odyssey in Philostratus' Heroikos. By insisting on the intellectual context of the second sophistic, this study will throw light on the sophist's using of rhetorical and exegetical tools in order to comment on Homeric fiction by fashioning fiction.
Date:1 Dec 2015 → 30 Nov 2019
Keywords:second sophistic, Homer, reception, argumentation, metafiction
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Language studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Literary studies, Theology and religious studies