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Overview"This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with Hesiod's stories of the gods and moralizing proscriptions of just human behavior.The volume opens with the ""Hesiodic Question,"" to address questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature of composition of Hesiod's two major poems, the Theogony and Works and Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of the sorts of questions that have been asked rather than an attempt to resolve debate. Other chapters discuss Hesiod's particular rendering of the supernatural and the performative nature of the Works and Days, as well as competing diachronic and synchronic temporalities and varying portrayals of female in the two poems. The rich story of reception ranges from Solon to comic books. These chapters continue to explore the nature of Hesiod's poetics, as different writers through time single out new aspects of his art less evident to earlier readers. Long before the advent of Christianity, classical writers leveled their criticism at Hesiod's version of polytheism. The relative importance of Hesiod's two major poems across time also tells us a tale of the age receiving the poems. In the past two centuries, artists and writers have come to embrace the Hesiodic stories for themselves for the insight they offer of the human condition but even as old allegory looks quaint to modern eyes new forms of allegory take form." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander Loney (Assistant Professor of Classical Languages, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages, Wheaton College) , Stephen Scully (Professor of Classical Studies, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 18.00cm Weight: 1.091kg ISBN: 9780190209032ISBN 10: 0190209038 Pages: 552 Publication Date: 06 September 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction Stephen Scully and Alexander C. Loney PART I: Hesiod in Context 2 The Hesiodic Question Hugo H. Koning 3 Seventh Century Material Culture in Boiotia Stephanie Larson 4 In Hesiod's World David W. Tandy 5 The Pre-history and Analogs of Hesiod's Poetry Joshua T. Katz PART II: Hesiod's Art 6 Hesiodic Poetics Stephen Scully 7 Hesiod's Theogony and the Structures of Poetry Benjamin Sammons 8 Hesiod's Temporalities Alexander C. Loney 9 Hesiodic Theology Richard P. Martin 10 Hesiod in Performance Egbert J. Bakker 11 Hesiod's Rhetoric of Exhortation José M. González 12 Gender in Hesiod: A Poetics of the Powerless Suzanne Lye PART III: Hesiod in the Greco-Roman Period 13 Solon's Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days J. A. Almeida 14 The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics Mitchell Miller 15 Deviant Origins: Hesiod's Theogony and the Orphica Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 16 Hesiod and the Visual Arts H. A. Shapiro 17 Hesiod and Pindar Tom Phillips 18 Hesiod and Tragedy Alan H. Sommerstein 19 Hesiod and Comedy Jeffrey Henderson 20 Plato's Hesiod Marcus Folch 21 Hellenistic Hesiod Lilah Grace Canevaro 22 Hesiod from Aristotle to Posidonius David Conan Wolfsdorf 23 Hesiod, Virgil, and the Georgic Tradition Stephanie Nelson 24 Ovid's Hesiodic Voices Ioannis Ziogas 25 Hesiod Transformed, Parodied and Assaulted: Hesiod in the Second Sophistic and Early Christian Thought Helen Van Noorden PART IV: Hesiod from Byzantinum to Modern Times 26 Hesiod in the Byzantine and Early Renaissance Periods Niccolò Zorzi 27 Hesiod and Christian Humanism, 1471-1667 Jessica Wolfe 28 Hesiod in the 18th and 19th Centuries Adam Lecznar 29 Theorizing with Hesiod: Freudian Constructs and Structuralism Stephen Scully and Charles Stocking 30 The Reception of Hesiod in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thomas E. Jenkins Index Locorum General IndexReviewsAs one might expect from Oxford, the contributors are some of the finest scholars in the field. Apart from the essays themselves, the text includes a fine introduction by the editors, a standard index of names and subjects, and a robust 'Index Locorum Anitiquorum.' The result is an exemplary achievement, comprehensive and diverse, erudite enough to satisfy scholars yet readable enough to be accessible to ambitious nonspecialists-a companion that will find use among not only classicists but also those whose interests include comparative literature and poetry. Essential. * CHOICE * Author InformationAlexander C. Loney is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry, with a monograph on retributive justice in the Odyssey forthcoming with Oxford. Stephen Scully is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, Greek tragedy, Plato, Freud's antiquities, and receptions studies of Homer, Hesiod, and Vergil. Translations include Plato's Phaedrus (2003) and, with Rosanna Warren, Euripides' Suppliant Women (1995). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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