Hesiod the Other Poet

Informationen zum Autor Hugo H. Koning , Ph.D. (2010) in Greek Literature, teaches Greek and Latin at St. Stanislascollege Delft and is a part-time lecturer in Greek at Leiden University. His fields of interest include archaic epic, mythology, and ancient exegetical texts. Klappentext This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks. Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Hesiod and Homer; Chapter 1 Introduction: Equating Hesiod and Homer; Chapter 2 The Boundless Authority of Hesiod and Homer; Chapter 3 Hesiod and Homer: The Storekeepers of Knowledge; Part 2 The 'Real' Hesiod; Chapter 4 Introduction: Searching for Hesiod; Chapter 5 Ethics and Politics: the Common and the Arcane; Chapter 6 Philosophy: Great and Small; Part 3 Hesiod versus Homer; Chapter 7 Introduction: the Contest of Hesiod and Homer; Chapter 8 Swords and Ploughshares; Chapter 9 The Other Poetics; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum

Product details

• Authors: Koning, Hugo Koning, Hugo H. Koning
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2010
• EAN: 9789004186163
• ISBN: 978-90-0-418616-3
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies