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This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with Hesiod's stories of the gods and moralizing proscriptions of just human behavior. The volume opens with the Hesiodic Question, to address questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature of composition of Hesiod's two major poems, the Theogony and Works and Days . Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of the sorts of questions that have been asked rather than an attempt to resolve debate. Other chapters discuss Hesiod's particular rendering of the supernatural and the performative nature of the Works and Days , as well as competing diachronic and synchronic temporalities and varying portrayals of female in the two poems. The rich story
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- Author
- Stephen Scully; Alexander Loney
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190905361
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Poetry, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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