Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer (Classical Presences)

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Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	Speech Rhetoric
	Ancient Scholarship in Wittenberg
	Homer and the Bible in Wittenberg
1: Homeric Grammar: Philip’s Institutiones Graecae Grammaticae (1518)
	How Poets Talk
	Quintilian’s Homer
	Homer didaskalos: Strabo on Homer
2: Homeric Eloquence: Philip’s 1518 Lectures on the Epistle to Titus and the Iliad
	Why the Epistle to Titus?
	Special Marks and Pointing Hands
	The Teaching Kind and the Order of Learning
	Commonplaces and the Order of the Text
3: Homeric Prudence: Melanchthon’s 1523 Homer Lectures
	The Necessity of the Study of Eloquence
	Achilles Pirmin Gasser, a Model Student
	The Adages of Erasmus as a Field of Scholarship
	Macrobius’s Saturnalia and the “Diligent Reader”
	Agamemnon’s Princely Oratory: Rhetorical Action in Book 4 of the Iliad
4: The Homeric Poem
	Melanchthon’s Poem
	Ancient Perspectives on the Unity of Homer’s Poems
		Aristotle
		Alexandrian Scholarship and Scholia Vetera
		Virgil
	The Faithful Householder and the Homeric Poem
	Conclusion: Treasures New and Old in the Homeric Poem
5: The Wittenberg Scholia on the Homeric Poem
	The Transmission of Melanchthon’s Notes in Wittenberg
	Virgil’s Homer
	“Comparing” and “Applying” Speeches in the Epic Simile
	Oeconomia and the Wittenberg Scholia
	Prayer and the Speech of Heroes
	Action (too) Is Eloquence
6: Rightly Dividing the Word
	A Universal Priesthood of Readers
	By Their Prayers Will You Know Them
	The Battle of the Frogs and Mice and Practical Theology
	A Foreign Place of Theology in Virgil’s Aeneid
Epilogue
Bibliography
	Annotated books
	Primary
	Secondary
Index