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Hesiod's Theogony : From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost by Hésiode.;Hésiode;Hésiode - réception.;Scully, Stephen is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hesiod's Theogony : From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost about?
Stephen Scully offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and an account of the poem's classical and post-classical reception up to Milton's Paradise Lost. He proposes that the poem be read as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, and discusses Hesiod's artful narrative style in relation to Homer's.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hésiode.;Hésiode;Hésiode - réception.;Scully, Stephen
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190463847
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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