"Hesiod: The Other Poet is a study dealing with the role of Hesiod in the imagination and the collective memory of the ancient Greeks. Its main hypothesis is that Hesiod's image was to a large degree formed by the picture of Homer: Hesiod is decidedly different when presented as allied with, opposed to or simply without Homer. Following this approach, Hesiod is investigated as a moral and philosophical authority, a locus informed with values and qualities, a concept in literary-critical discourse, and more generally as a cultural and panhellenic icon constructed and reconstructed by later Greek authors who employed and so re-created him in their own texts."--Publisher's website

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Hesiod - the other poet : the reception of Hesiod in antiquity

Hesiod: The Other Poet (2010)

Brill ; Extenza Turpin [distributor

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Mnemosyne. Supplements, Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0325, Leiden, 2010

Mnemosyne. Supplements, 325, Leiden, Biggleswade, 2010

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, Leiden, 2010

Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2010

Bilingual, PS, 2010

2011 12 30

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hesiod: The Other Poet (2010) 1
Mnemosyne Supplements - Volume 325 3
ISBN: 9789004186163 5
--> Contents 6
Preface 10
Introduction 12
1. Memory Studies 13
2. Hesiod and Collective Memory 18
3. This Book 23
4. Getting started: The Commemograms 29
Chapters 34
PART ONE: HESIOD AND HOMER 34
1: Introduction: Equating Hesiod and Homer 36
0. Introduction 36
1. Lumping and Splitting 37
2. Modern Scholarship 39
3. Lumping in Antiquity 51
3.1. Hesiod and Homer in Time 51
3.2. Hesiod and Homer in Greek Society: Performance, Symposia, Schools 57
Appendix: The Hesiod-Homer Sequence 63
2. The Boundless Authority of Hesiod and Homer 68
0. Introduction 68
1. The Authority of Homer 69
2. Herodotus on Greek Theology 74
3. Hesiod and Homer as Lawgivers 83
4. Dealing with Poetic Authority: Reactions and Counter-Reactions 93
4.1. A Frontal Attack on Fellows 93
4.2. Strategies of Defence 97
4.2.1. Selection 98
4.2.2. Altering the Surface 100
4.2.3. Allegorical Reading 102
4.2.4. The Freedom of Poets 104
4.2.5. Harmonization 107
5. Conclusion 113
3. Hesiod and Homer: The Storekeepers of Knowledge 116
0. Introduction 116
1. Hesiod and Homer as Philosophers 117
2. Old Knowers: An Exclusive Category 120
2.1. Making Groups: The Sophists 122
2.2. Hesiod and Homer versus the Tragedians 127
2.3. Hesiod and Homer as Historians 130
3. Conclusion 136
PART TWO: THE ‘REAL’ HESIOD 138
4. Introduction: Searching for Hesiod 140
0. Introduction 140
1. The Biographical Tradition 141
2. The Mechanisms of Memory 150
2.1. The Practice of Assimilation 150
2.2. The Catchword-Factor 155
2.3. The Principle of Snowballing 160
2.4. The Principle of Clustering 162
2.5. The Homeric Factor 164
2.6. The Persona’s Paradox 166
3. Conclusion 169
5. Ethics and Politics: The Common and the Arcane 172
0. Introduction: Hesiod the Wise 172
1. Hesiod’s Demons 176
2. Justice and the City 183
3. People and their Dealings 188
4. Moderation and Simplicity 194
5. Conclusion 197
6. Philosophy: Great and Small 200
0. Introduction 200
1. Natural Philosophy 201
2. The Problem of Revelation 211
2.1. The Attack on Revelation (Xenophanes and Heraclitus) 213
2.2. Revelation Modified (Parmenides and Empedocles) 221
2.3. The Use of Good Old-Fashioned Revelation (Protagoras and Prodicus) 228
3. Language and Truth 234
4. Conclusion 244
PART THREE: HESIOD VERSUS HOMER 248
7. Introduction: The Contest of Hesiod and Homer 250
0. Introduction 250
1. Lumping and Splitting Again: Polar Opposition 251
2. The Tradition of the Contest 256
2.1. The Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi 259
2.2. Other Contests 270
3. Hesiod versus Homer: Points of Divergence 278
8. Swords and Ploughshares 280
0. Introduction 280
1. Modern Scholarship 281
2. Fighting and Farming 287
3. The King and the People 295
4. Hesiod’s Crossing and Homer’s Expansion 301
5. Conclusion 305
9. The Other Poetics 308
0. Introduction 308
1. Truth and Fiction 310
1.1. Lying Muses 311
1.2. Homer as a Philosopher of Language 315
1.3. Believing the Poet 321
2. The Poet’s Craft: Inspiration and Perspiration 329
2.1. Modern Scholarship 330
2.2. The Impact of Plato: The Manic Poet 335
2.3. The Hellenistic Hesiod: On Wine and Water 344
3. The Hesiodic Genre: The Rise of a Didactic Poet 352
3.1. The interpretatio latina 354
3.2. Hesiod in the Handbooks 358
4. Beauty and Style 361
5. Boundary Crossing 369
5.1. Crossing 369
5.2. Homeric expansion 374
6. Conclusion 377
10. Conclusion 380
Bibliography 394
General Index 414
Index Locorum 426
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This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks.

2012-02-04