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By Robert Lamberton
Procluss observation on Platos Republic comprises in its 5th and 6th essays the single systematic research of the workings of the allegorical textual content to arrive us from polytheist antiquity. within the context of shielding Homer opposed to the criticisms leveled by way of Socrates within the Republic, Proclus, a late-antique polytheist philosopher, offers not just a wealthy collection of interpretive fabric, but in addition an research of Homers polysemous textual content whose impact could be saw within the paintings of the founding father of sleek semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. this primary smooth translation into English, with Greek textual content dealing with and constrained statement, makes it attainable to understand the significance of Proclus within the background of either hermeneutics and semiotics.
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8 20 25 K45 5 10 15 20 25 PROCLUS ON POETICS AND THE HOMERIC POEMS διὰ τὴν κατὰ τὸ | πρόσχημα τῆς μυθοποιΐας φαινομένην ἀτοπίαν. δεῖ γὰρ τὸν μιμητὴν καὶ τὰς ἐννοίας οἰκείας παρέχεσθαι τοῖς πράγμασιν, εἰκόνας ἐκείνων εἶναι βουλομένας, καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα πρέποντα ταῖς ἐννοίαις ἐκλέγεσθαι. διὸ περὶ μὲν τῆς τῶν μύθων τῶν θείων ποιήσεως εἴωθεν λέγειν συχνόν, ὅτι <οὐ> καλῶς | ψεύδεται, ψεῦδος ἐκεῖνο καλὸν ὀνομάζων, ὅπερ ἂν ᾖ δι’ ὀνομάτων καλῶν ἀποκρύπτον τὴν ἀλήθειαν· περὶ δὲ τῆς τῶν ἡρωϊκῶν πραγμάτων μιμήσεως, οὐχ ὅτι οὐ καλῶς ψεύδεταί φησιν, ἀλλ’ ὅλως ὅτι ψεύδεται, τοιούτους εἶναι τοὺς || ἥρωας δεικνῦσα οἵους τοὺς ἀνθρώπους.
The two explanations and their relevance to Homer 103 [K92] 4. How one might defend the myths about the divine that appear to attribute the causes of bad things to the gods 109 [K96] a. The problem 109 [K96] b. Interpretation of Homer’s two pithoi 113 [K98] 5. How the poem seems to give the gods responsibility for the breaking of the oaths; the true guidance in these matters 117 [K100] ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 6. What is the [meaning of the] episode of the poem in which Zeus, through Themis, puts the gods into a state of strife?
Proclus’s response: Achilles c. Proclus’s response: Odysseus What does Zeus’s intercourse with Hera hint at: What is the meaning of Hera’s adornment, of the location of their intercourse, the desire of Zeus, and the divine sleep? Generally, an explanation of the entire myth a. The problem: the five questions b. Solution to questions 1 and 2 c. Solution to the question of Zeus’s sleep (3) d. Solution to the question of the location of their intercourse e. Solution to the question of Hera’s adornment f.