Playing Hesiod : the 'myth of the races' in classical antiquity /

This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noorden, Helen Van, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge classical studies.
Temas:
Hesiod > Criticism and interpretation.
Hesiod > Influence.
Hesiod
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Mythology, Roman, in literature.
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
Mythologie romaine dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Mythology, Roman, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Texts, translations and abbreviations
  • Chapter 1: Approaching Hesiod
  • The argument of this book: an 'alternative account'
  • Identifying a 'Hesiodic' project
  • Ages and stages, heroes and chronologies
  • Reading the races in Hesiod, and Hesiod in the races
  • Chapter 2: Embedding the races in Hesiod
  • Introduction
  • The Works and Days: ''argument' is perhaps too grand a word'?
  • The importance of the 'myth of the races'
  • Framing the races
  • Structures in the 'myth of the races'
  • Emphases in the narrative of the races
  • The emergence of 'Hesiod'
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'hesiodic' projects
  • Introduction: challenging the unimportance of Hesiod
  • Didactic (re)constructions: the Protagoras
  • Socrates' 'Hesiodic' project: the Republic
  • Further experiments: the statesman
  • Conclusion: transforming Hesiodic pedagogy
  • Chapter 4: 'They called her justice ... ': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena
  • Introduction: approaching the Phaenomena
  • The maiden and the Phaenomena
  • Hesiod in the Phaenomena
  • Conclusion: didactic ramifications
  • Chapter 5: Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • Introduction: backgrounds
  • Periodization
  • Alternative accounts
  • Conclusion: Ovid's 'Hesiod'
  • Chapter 6: Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome
  • Prologue: Ovid's Pythagoras and the degeneration of didactic
  • Didactic hazard a: the pupil in the Octavia
  • Didactic hazard b: the speaker in Juvenal Satire 6
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: playing 'hesiod'.

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