Playing Hesiod: The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies) - Tapa blanda

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Van Noorden, Helen

 
9781108730020: Playing Hesiod: The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1108730027 ISBN 13: 9781108730020
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Sinopsis

This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the story to reconstruct 'Hesiod' more broadly as predecessor in forming their own intellectual and rhetorical projects; disciplines such as philosophy, didactic poetry and satire all engage in implicit questions about 'Hesiodic' teaching. The first chapter introduces key issues; the second re-evaluates the account in Hesiod's Works and Days. A major chapter outlines Plato's use of Hesiod through close study of the Protagoras, Republic and Statesman. Subsequent chapters focus on Aratus' Phaenomena and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the final chapter, on the Octavia attributed to Seneca and Juvenal's sixth Satire, broadens ideas of Hesiod's reception in Rome.

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Helen Van Noorden is Wrigley Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2019
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1108730027
ISBN 13 
9781108730020
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Número de páginas
362
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