Hesiodic Voices - Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod''s Works and Days

Hesiod was the greatest archaic poet after Homer: this book explores his influence on Greek literature and culture.

List of contents

1. 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.

About the author

Richard 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).

Summary

This book selects central moments in the literary reception of the Works and Days in antiquity, studies these moments in sophisticated depth, and pays particular attention to Hesiod's importance as the founding father of 'didactic literature'. It will appeal to all those with a serious interest in ancient literature.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hunter, Richard (University of Cambridge) Hunter, Hunter Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107624979
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62497-9
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE