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Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

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“A rich and fascinating account of how . . . symbolism and allegorical reading developed over the course of classical antiquity.” —Literary Imagination

Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic “symbol.”

The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers—the allegorists—were the first to develop the notion. Struck extensively revisits the work of the great allegorists, which has been underappreciated. He links their interest in symbolism to the importance of divination and magic in ancient times, and he demonstrates how important symbolism became when they thought about religion and philosophy. “They see the whole of great poetic language as deeply figurative,” he writes, “with the potential always, even in the most mundane details, to be freighted with hidden messages.

Birth of the Symbol offers a new understanding of the role of poetry in the life of ideas in ancient Greece. Moreover, it demonstrates a connection between the way we understand poetry and the way it was understood by important thinkers in ancient times.

“This book offers a remarkably comprehensive study of ancient symbolic interpretation from the Pre-Socratics to the later Neoplatonists and beyond.” —Classical World

“A challenging yet rewarding journey through a millennium of texts, thoughts, and interpretations.” —Walter Burkert, author of Creation of the Sacred and Greek Religion

© 2009 Princeton University Press (E-bog): 9781400826094

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E-bog: 9. februar 2009

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