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Guillaume Paquelin’s Passionate Defense of Homer Guillaume Paquelin’s Passionate Defense of Homer
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Jean de Sponde and Homer’s Problematic Heroes Jean de Sponde and Homer’s Problematic Heroes
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5 Reading Homer Across the Religious Divide: Guillaume Paquelin and Jean de Sponde
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Published:September 2011
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This chapter shows that whereas early humanists looked to the Greeks Odysseus and Nestor as the respective embodiments of prudence and wisdom, the Huguenot poet and scholar Jean de Sponde’s commentary on the Iliad (1583) tended to focus instead on Agamemnon and Achilles, who represented for him the poles of abusive power and its victims. Incorporating Protestant theological principles on resistance to an unjust monarch, Sponde’s commentary would help to challenge the mapping between Homeric and French contexts. Published four years earlier, the Catholic Guillaume Paquelin’s Apologeme pour le grand Homère appears doubly conservative: he was attempting to resolve a political crisis by effectively resurrecting an archaic and largely irrelevant Platonic crisis of Homeric authority, and this move was itself predicated on the idea that French monarchy’s political authority was conjoined with Homer’s textual authority on politics, yet as Sponde’s commentary corroborated, that connection had been greatly weakened.
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