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The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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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 of reception ranges from Solon to comic
books. These chapters continue to explore the nature of Hesiod's
poetics, as different writers through time single out new aspects
of his art less evident to earlier readers. Long before the advent
of Christianity, classical writers leveled their criticism at
Hesiod's version of polytheism. The relative importance of Hesiod's
two major poems across time also tells us a tale of the age
receiving the poems. In the past two centuries, artists and writers
have come to embrace the Hesiodic stories for themselves for the
insight they offer of the human condition but even as old allegory
looks quaint to modern eyes new forms of allegory take form.
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