Zoe Stamatopoulou (St Louis Washington University)

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry

Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE

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Produktbeschreibung

Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 238mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107162990
• ISBN-10: 1107162998
• Artikelnr.: 45154948

Autorenporträt

Zoe Stamatopoulou is Associate Professor of Classics at Washington University, St Louis. Her research focuses on Archaic and Classical Greek poetry as well as on Greek literature of the Imperial era, with an emphasis on the Hesiodic tradition and its reception in antiquity. She has authored several articles on Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Euripides and Plutarch.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Hesiod and the poetics of lyric
2. Hesiodic narratives in lyric
3. Lyric reception of Hesiod's didactic poetry
4. Hesiodic narratives and the tragedians
5. Hesiod and Old Comedy
Conclusion.