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Hesiod : Ancient Reception of a Cultural Icon.

Hesiod: The Other Poet is a study dealing with the role of Hesiod in the imagination and the collective memory of the ancient Greeks. Its main hypothesis is that Hesiod's image was to a large degree formed by the picture of Homer: Hesiod is decidedly different when presented as allied with, opp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koning, H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2010.
Colección:Mnemosyne, Supplements, 325.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: HESIOD AND HOMER; 1: Introduction: Equating Hesiod and Homer; 2. The Boundless Authority of Hesiod and Homer; 3. Hesiod and Homer: The Storekeepers of Knowledge; PART TWO: THE 'REAL' HESIOD; 4. Introduction: Searching for Hesiod; 5. Ethics and Politics: The Common and the Arcane; 6. Philosophy: Great and Small; PART THREE: HESIOD VERSUS HOMER; 7. Introduction: The Contest of Hesiod and Homer; 8. Swords and Ploughshares; 9. The Other Poetics; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum.