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Plutarch’s Hesiod: Tradition and Identity Formation in a Greco-Roman Context [PDF]
In Plutarch’s times Hesiod was still seen as the second founding father of Panhellenic culture and identity. For various reasons Plutarch held Hesiod in high esteem and played an important role in keeping the poet under the spotlight of paideia.
Peter Malisse
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Continuity and change in the treatment of frightening subject matter: contemporary retellings of classical mythology for children in the Low Countries [PDF]
Ever since its origins, children's literature has dealt with frightening subject matter. The forms of such frightening fiction for children are, however, continuously changing.
Geerts, Sylvie
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The poetical justice of Hesiod
In this article, it is intended to address one of the first human conceptions of justice. The poet Hesiod (seventh century BC), considered one of the greatest educators of Greece, for display in his poem Works and days that justice is a quality that ...
Bruno Amaro Lacerda
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WORK AND JUSTICE WITHOUT MORAL CONTENT IN HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS
According to Michael Gagarin, Hesiod’s notion of dikê is not a moral notion, and it has to be disassociated from the moral connotations that it will start to assume later in the fifth century.
Refik Guremen
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Pessimism, Hope, and the Tragic-Art of the Greeks (Nietzsche and the Pandora Myth) [PDF]
This essay is focused on Nietzsche’s unique reading of the Pandora myth as it appears in Human, All Too Human and develops an interpretation of Hope, the most profound evil of the many evils released by Pandora infecting the human condition, as it might ...
Magrini, James
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Kenntnisse in der Antike zur Wirkung der Witterung auf die Landwirtschaft
Die Lehre von der Wirkung der Witterung in der Landwirtschaft - die Agrarmeteorologie - ist so alt wie der Ackerbau. Was man damals wußte, müssen wir heute wissen. Als erste Aufzeichnungen in Europa begegnen uns die Strophen des Hesiod, der um 800 v. Chr.
T. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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Le rôle du noos/noein dans la pensée d’Hésiode et sa signification dans Les Travaux et les Jours
By studying the history of noos/noein in Greek archaic thought, researchers often read Hesiod like Homer but there seem to be some Hesiodic charasteristics in description of noos.
Karin Mackowiak
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Greco-Roman meteorology will be described in four overlapping developments. In the archaic period, astro-meteorological calendars were written down, and one appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days; such calendars or almanacs originated thousands of years ...
Johnson, Monte
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Špilje, seks i kritika Augustove vlasti: Ovidijev pjesnički dijalog s Homerom, Hesiodom i Kalimahom
This paper discusses the use of caves in Ovid’s works. It focuses on several passages from Ars Amatoria, Fasti, and Metamorphoses in which Ovid uses cave imagery as part of his Golden age discourse.
Krešimir Vuković
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