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Didactic poetry of Greece, Rome and beyond knowledge, power, tradition /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Canevaro, Lilah Grace (Editor ), O'Rourke, Donncha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2019.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Lilah Grace Canevaro and Donncha O'Rourke
  • Part I. Theory.
  • Knowledge is power: dynamics of (dis)empowerment in didactic poetry / Donncha O'Rourke
  • Thinking for yoursel: Hesiod's Works and days and cognitive training / Lilah Grace Canevaro
  • Part II. Tracing tradition.
  • Homer Ethicus / David Sider
  • Elegiac pharmacology: the didactic heirs of Nicander? / Floris Overduin
  • Name puns and acrostics in didactic poetry: reading the universe / Monica R. Gale
  • Part III. Comparisons and continuations.
  • DIdactic and apocalyptic turns: clarity and obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the Sibylline oracles / Helen Van Noorden
  • Embodied teaching: Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Babylonian didactic tradition / Johannes Haubold
  • Fauna and erotic didactics in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures / Madhlozi Moyo
  • Scientia demands the Latin muse: the authority of didactic poetry in early-modern Scotland / David McOmish.