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Project

Commenting on, criticizing and rewriting Homer in Philostratos’ Heroikos
Code
01SF3115
Duration
01 December 2015 → 30 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Theology and religious studies
Keywords
second sophistic Homer reception argumentation metafiction Greek Latin Late Antiquity Antiquity Language and text analysis Greek mythology Literary criticism Physiognomy Second Sophistic literature Literary studies
 
Project description
 

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.