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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Table of Contents 6 Introduction 8 Part I: Theory 28 1. Knowledge is Power: Dynamics of (Dis)Empowerment in Didactic Poetry 28 2. Thinking for Yourself: Hesiod’s “Works and Days” and Cognitive Training 60 Part II: Tracing Tradition 82 3. Homer Ethicus 82 4. Elegiac Pharmacology: The Didactic Heirs of Nicander? 104 5. Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe 130 6. Ovid’s “Ars Poetica”: Metapoetic Didactic in the “Ars Amatoria” 158 Part III: Comparisons and Continuations 186 7. Didactic and Apocalyptic Turns: Clarity and Obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the “Sibylline Oracles” 186 8. Embodied Teaching: “Ludlul Bel Nemeqi” and the Babylonian Didactic Tradition 212 9. Fauna and Erotic Didactics in Archaic Greek and Kalanga Oral Wisdom Literatures 232 10. Scientia Demands the Latin Muse: The Authority of Didactic Poetry in Early-Modern Scotland 256 Index 282 Index Locorum 302

Author

Lilah Grace Canevaro, Donncha O'Rourke (eds.)

Language

EN