Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy

Jennifer Lobo Meeks, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Perimeter College of Georgia State University. She specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and in the history of modern European philosophy.

"Professor Meeks, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Perimeter College of Georgia State University, manifests writing mastery and loving expertise on the technicalities and history of her subject. I recognized a book I wanted to savor; anyone interested in the roots of philosophy in Homeric and Hesiodic myths would. [...] Beginning with the first section of the first chapter, "A Concise History of Allegory," who would have thought that the history of how allegory was understood and used over the last 3,000 years could be so interesting? And how wonderful that scholars like the author to have studied so thoughtfully its use in composition and interpretation?"-Morris Dean (Moristotle), moristotle.blogspot.com, 26.03.2021

"Professor Meeks, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Perimeter College of Georgia State University, manifests writing mastery and loving expertise on the technicalities and history of her subject. I recognized a book I wanted to savor; anyone interested in the roots of philosophy in Homeric and Hesiodic myths would. […] Beginning with the first section of the first chapter, “A Concise History of Allegory,” who would have thought that the history of how allegory was understood and used over the last 3,000 years could be so interesting? And how wonderful that scholars like the author to have studied so thoughtfully its use in composition and interpretation?"—Morris Dean (Moristotle), moristotle.blogspot.com, 26.03.2021