Didactic poetry of Greece, Rome and beyond : knowledge, power, tradition / edited by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Donncha O'Rourke.
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- Language:
- English
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2019.
- Contents:
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- 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 BeÌl NeÌmeqi 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.
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- OCLC:
- 1046102125
- Publisher Number:
- 99984141949
- Online:
- The Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund Home Page
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