Hesiod's Cosmos

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Strauss Clay is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Wrath of Athena (1983; 0691065748) and The Politics of Olympus (1989; 0691067759). Klappentext Reads Hesiod's poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos. Zusammenfassung In the Theogony and the Works and Days Hesiod provides the earliest systematic and comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life. Hesiod's Cosmos argues for reading the two poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Orientations: the Theogony; 2. Orientations: the Works and Days; 3. Overtures; 4. The origins of mankind; 5. The two Prometheuses; 6. Perspectives on gods and men; 7. Hybrids; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Strauss Clay, Strauss Clay Jenny, Jenny Strauss Clay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521117685
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11768-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies