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Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Richard Hunter
SeriesCambridge Classical Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:346
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 139
Category/GenreLiterary studies - classical, early and medieval
ISBN/Barcode 9781107624979
ClassificationsDewey:881.01
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 October 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic literature'. A central chapter considers the development of ancient ideas about didactic poetry, relying not so much on explicit critical theory as on how Hesiod was read and used from the earliest period of reception onwards. Other chapters consider Hesiodic reception in the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides, in the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, in the Aesopic tradition, and in the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and Lucian; there is also a groundbreaking study of Plutarch's extensive commentary on the Works and Days and an account of ancient ideas of Hesiod's linguistic style. This is a major and innovative contribution to the study of Hesiod's remarkable poem and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.

Author Biography

Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1978, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge, 2006), Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge, 2009), Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis) (with Donald Russell, Cambridge, 2011) and Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (Cambridge, 2012). Many of his essays have been collected in the two-volume On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008).