Didactic poetry of Greece, Rome and beyond : knowledge, power, tradition / edited by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Donncha O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canevaro, Lilah Grace, editor.

O'Rourke, Donncha, editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Classical.

Didactic poetry, Classical--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 307 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2019.

Contents:

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 yourself: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9781910589793

1910589799

OCLC:

1046102125

Publisher Number:

99984141949