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Hesiod (Paperback)
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Hesiod (Paperback)
Series: Hermes Books Series
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Standing at the very beginning of European literature, the poems
and verse fragments that have come down to us under Hesiod's name
tap the vast reservoir of oral tradition constituting Greek wisdom
about the ways of gods and men. The Theogony tells of the origins
of the gods and the universe, and so of the world-order we know,
while the Works and Days offers the first picture of the society
and economy of archaic rural Greece. Robert Lamberton provides here
an accessible introduction to these works of Hesiod. He discusses
the historical background of the poems and the problems of
accurately dating them, analyzes the major and subsidiary works,
and concludes by tracing the influence of Hesiodic poetry on later
Greek and Roman poetry and on Western European literature until
after the Renaissance. Throughout, Lamberton restores a sense of
the poetry of Hesiod in all the richness of its contradictions. He
shows that this body of poetry, which sings of the creation of the
universe and the generations of the gods, insists on doing so from
the perspective of the humblest of men-a wretched shepherd whom the
Muses initiated on Mount Helikon. The poetry speaks through this
idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious voice, appropriating
proverbial wisdom that is clearly the possession of a tradition
rather than any individual and transforming it into a discourse
that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the
world. "An important and definitive book. Lamberton combines the
sophistication of cultural anthropology with a refined sense for
the mechanics and aesthetics of archaic Greek literature and gives
Hesiod a fresh and original reading."-Gregory Nagy, Harvard
University
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