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 BeÌ„l NeÌ„meqi 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

Online:

The Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund Home Page