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Gastón Alejandro Prada
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0199-1005
Vol 41 No 1 (2022), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/agora.41.1.7497
Submitted: 11-02-2021 Accepted: 08-09-2021 Published: 21-12-2021
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Abstract

This work studies the allegorical interpretation of the Homeric poems in the archaic period from the surviving corpus of the so-called «allegorists»: Theagenes of Regius, Pherecides of Siros and Metrodoro of Lampsaco. It is proposed that, through this perspective, interpreters focus on some of the metaphysical problems present in the Iliad and the Odyssey, thus tracing conceptual affiliations with pre-socratic philosophy. It is based on the hypothesis that the alegórisis of the Homeric poems of the archaic period does not constitute a mere apologetic discourse as it occurs in subsequent times but, rather, a decoding of a language typical of the epic that allows to shape certain philosophical notions in new forms of enunciation of the archaic and pre-classical context.