Hesiod: The Other Poet

Ancient Reception of a Cultural Icon
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18616-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 325, 439 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 924 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Hesiod: The Other Poet is a study dealing with the role of Hesiod in the imagination and the collective memory of the ancient Greeks. Its main hypothesis is that Hesiod's image was to a large degree formed by the picture of Homer: Hesiod is decidedly different when presented as allied with, opposed to or simply without Homer. Following this approach, Hesiod is investigated as a moral and philosophical authority, a locus informed with values and qualities, a concept in literary-critical discourse, and more generally as a cultural and panhellenic icon constructed and reconstructed by later Greek authors who employed and so re-created him in their own texts.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Hesiod and Homer, ancient epic, collective/cultural memory studies, reception studies, literary-critical discourse, early philosophy and Greeks ethics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koning, Hugo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Hesiod and Homer

Chapter 1 Introduction: Equating Hesiod and Homer
Chapter 2 The Boundless Authority of Hesiod and Homer
Chapter 3 Hesiod and Homer: The Storekeepers of Knowledge

Part 2 The ‘Real’ Hesiod

Chapter 4 Introduction: Searching for Hesiod
Chapter 5 Ethics and Politics: the Common and the Arcane
Chapter 6 Philosophy: Great and Small

Part 3 Hesiod versus Homer

Chapter 7 Introduction: the Contest of Hesiod and Homer
Chapter 8 Swords and Ploughshares
Chapter 9 The Other Poetics

Chapter 10 Conclusion

Bibliography

General Index
Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Koning, Hugo
Hugo H. Koning, Ph.D. (2010) in Greek Literature, teaches Greek and Latin at St. Stanislascollege Delft and is a part-time lecturer in Greek at Leiden University. His fields of interest include archaic epic, mythology, and ancient exegetical texts.