Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 338 Seiten)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781107110816
Series Statement:
Cambridge classical studies
Content:
This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not so much on explicit critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and used from the earliest period of reception onwards. Other chapters consider Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides, in the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, in the Aesopic tradition, and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and Lucian; there is also a groundbreaking study of Plutarch's extensive commentary on the Works and Days and an account of ancient ideas of Hesiod's linguistic style. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod's remarkable poem and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.
Content:
Reading Hesiod -- A didactic poem? -- Hesiod and the Symposium -- Plutarch's Works and days, and Proclus', and Hesiod's -- Aesop and Hesiod -- Hesiod's style: towards an ancient analysis
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107624979
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107046900
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107624979
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hunter, Richard L., 1953 - Hesiodic voices Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107046900
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107046900
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Hesiodus Opera et dies
;
Rezeption
;
Geschichte Anfänge-500
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107110816
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