Playing Hesiod - The ''Myth of the Races'' in Classical Antiquity

This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod's five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of 'Hesiod'.

List of contents

1. Approaching Hesiod; 2. Embedding the races in Hesiod; 3. 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'Hesiodic' projects; 4. 'They called her Justice...': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena; 5. Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses; 6. Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome; Conclusion: playing Hesiod.

About the author

Helen Van Noorden is Wrigley Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge.

Summary

Focusing on key ancient responses to the five-part narrative of human history in Hesiod's Works and Days, this book argues that critical disciplines from philosophy to satire defined themselves in part through questions about 'Hesiodic' teaching. It will be of interest to scholars of ancient literature and the development of intellectual traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Helen (Girton College van Noorden, Helen van Noorden, Helen (Girton College Van Noorden, Van Noorden Helen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108730020
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73002-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE