This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception
of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these
moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic
literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient
ideas about didactic poetry, relying not so much on explicit
critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and used from the
earliest period of reception onwards. Other chapters consider
Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides,
in the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, in the
Aesopic tradition, and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and
Lucian; there is also a groundbreaking study of Plutarch's
extensive commentary on the Works and Days and an account of
ancient ideas of Hesiod's linguistic style. This is a major and
innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod's remarkable poem
and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.
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