Heraclitus the Allegorist (Homericus)

Heraclitus, often called "the Allegorist" or "Homericus" to distinguish him from the famous Presocratic philosopher, was a Greek author of the Homeric Problems (Allegoriae or Quaestiones Homericae), a treatise defending Homer against charges of impiety by reading his depictions of the gods as physical and moral allegories. His date is uncertain; he is usually placed in the early Roman Imperial period, perhaps the 1st century CE. Almost nothing is known of his life. His surviving work is a major source for ancient allegorical interpretation of myth, drawing on Stoic and earlier exegetical traditions.