William P. Weaver (B Professor of Literature in the Honors College

Homer in Wittenberg

Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer

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Produktbeschreibung

Homer in Wittenberg discusses Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Protestant Reformation. William P. Weaver provides a close examiantion of Melanchthon's use of Homer in his education reforms.

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Produktdetails

• Classical Presences
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780192864154
• ISBN-10: 0192864157
• Artikelnr.: 66172192

Autorenporträt

William P. Weaver is Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University. He received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. From 2015 to 2018 he was a Humboldt Fellow. He co-edited an edition of Philip Melanchthon's writings on rhetoric (De Gruyter, 2017), and is the author of numerous articles on rhetoric, poetry, and the classical tradition in the Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Homeric Grammar: Philip's Institutiones Graecae Grammaticae
(1518)
* 2: Homeric Eloquence: Philip's 1518 Lectures on the Epistle to Titus
and the iliad
* 3: Homeric Prudence: Melanchthon's 1523 Homer Lectures
* 4: The Homeric Poem
* 5: The Wittenberg Scholia
* 6: Rightly Dividing the Word
* Epilogue