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, 2018 This chapter uses Callimachus’s Aetia, Aratus’s Phaenomena, and Nicander’s Theriaca to explore the intense engagement with Hesiodic poetry in the Hellenistic period. Informed by statistics for explicit references to Hesiod at this time, it asks: Why is this the only period of antiquity in which the Theogony and the Works and Days are considered equally
Canevaro, Lilah
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, 2017 This chapter focuses on the origin, semantic value and use of the gnomic aorist in Hesiod.
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2015
Abstract Hesiod, epic poet from Ascra in Boeotia, usually considered later than Homer, is author of the Theogony and the Works and Days (Erga); other works attributed to him in antiquity include the Catalogue of Women and the Shield of Heracles (Aspis). The Theogony recounts the origins of the cosmos and the genealogy of the gods from
Luise Hallof, Klaus Hallof
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Abstract Hesiod, epic poet from Ascra in Boeotia, usually considered later than Homer, is author of the Theogony and the Works and Days (Erga); other works attributed to him in antiquity include the Catalogue of Women and the Shield of Heracles (Aspis). The Theogony recounts the origins of the cosmos and the genealogy of the gods from
Luise Hallof, Klaus Hallof
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1997
Abstract If I take Hesiod before Homer, it is not simply because I believe the Hesiodic poems to have been composed somewhat earlier than the Iliad and Odyssey—that issue is not important in the present context-but also because Hesiod is the one Greek poet in whose work the presence of substantial oriental elements is already ...
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Abstract If I take Hesiod before Homer, it is not simply because I believe the Hesiodic poems to have been composed somewhat earlier than the Iliad and Odyssey—that issue is not important in the present context-but also because Hesiod is the one Greek poet in whose work the presence of substantial oriental elements is already ...
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2014
This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the story to
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This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the story to
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