Poetry in fragments : studies on the Hesiodic corpus and its afterlife / edited by Christos Tsagalis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsagalis, Christos, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 50.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 1868-4785 ; Volume 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry.

Hesiod--Criticism and interpretation.

Hesiod.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Next to the Theogony and the Works and Days stands an entire corpus of fragmentary works attributed to the Boeotian poet Hesiod that has during the last thirty years attracted growing scholarly interest. Whereas other studies have concentrated either on the interpretation of the best preserved work of this corpus, the Catalogue of Women, or have offered detailed commentaries, this volume aims at bringing together studies focusing on generic and contextual factors pertaining to the various works of the Hesiodic corpus, the Catalogue of Women included, and the corpus' afterlife in Rome and Byzantium.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Hesiod Between Performance and Written Record

Fragments of Wisdom, Wisdom in Fragments

Choruses and Catalogues: the Performative and Generic Context of the Asopids in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

The Origin of Things: A Study in Contrasts

Helen, Herakles, and the End of the Heroes

Helen’s Phantom in Fragments

Female Ancestors in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: A Competition of Forms

Sound-Play in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

Hesiodic Traces in Ovid’s Heroides

Hesiod’s Fragments in Byzantium

List of Contributors

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 16, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110536805

3110536803

9783110537581

3110537583

OCLC:

1004867800