The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-020903-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1213 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loney, Alexander

Scully, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Notes 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 Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander 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).