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Article: Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2001
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Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite. Ed. and trans. by PHILIP FORD. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 338) Geneve: Droz. 2000. xxx + 178 pp. 77.70 SwF.
Given the importance of allegory in poetry of the French Renaissance, particularly in the works of the Pleiade, it is highly relevant that we should understand how classical texts were taught in universities and colleges. Clearly Dorat was an exceptional teacher, but Philip Ford offers us a critical edition of the lecture notes taken in Latin by a fairly average (anonymous) student who attended Dorat's classes on two Homeric works, Books X-XII of The Odyssey and ...