Peter Struck
Biographic Data
| ID | 8957573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Struck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Struck |
| SIGNATURE | STRUCK P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Graeco-Roman Literary Criticism
The poets in the classical world carried wide authority on questions about the gods, the nature of the world, and the human place in it, and this provoked ancient readers to detailed and subtle reflections on how such profound wisdom might be conveyed through the medium of poetry. This chapter presents an overview of literary criticism in the Greek and Roman world. It sets Plato and Aristotle at the centre, working through core questions of imita…
Plato and Divination
Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowledge itself in Timeaus
Hermetic writings
Even back to Herodotus' time, the Greeks wondered if foreign pantheons of gods might be mappable onto their own.
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosop…
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The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosop…
Hermetic writings
Even back to Herodotus' time, the Greeks wondered if foreign pantheons of gods might be mappable onto their own.
Plato and Divination
Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowledge itself in Timeaus
Graeco-Roman Literary Criticism
The poets in the classical world carried wide authority on questions about the gods, the nature of the world, and the human place in it, and this provoked ancient readers to detailed and subtle reflections on how such profound wisdom might be conveyed through the medium of poetry. This chapter presents an overview of literary criticism in the Greek and Roman world. It sets Plato and Aristotle at the centre, working through core questions of imita…
Philosophy (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Allegory (1 work)