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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.570kg ISBN: 9781107046900ISBN 10: 1107046904 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 06 March 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Reading Hesiod; 2. A didactic poem?; 3. Hesiod and the symposium; 4. Plutarch's Works and Days, and Proclus', and Hesiod's; 5. Aesop and Hesiod; 6. Hesiod's style: towards an ancient analysis.ReviewsAuthor InformationRichard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1978, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006), Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge, 2009), Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis) (with Donald Russell, Cambridge, 2011) and Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge, 2012). Many of his essays have been collected in the two-volume On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |