Stephen Scully

Hesiod's Theogony

From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Scully offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and an account of the poem's classical and post-classical reception up to Milton's Paradise Lost . He proposes that the poem be read as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, and discusses Hesiod's artful narrative style in relation to Homer's.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190253967
• ISBN-10: 0190253967
• Artikelnr.: 47864268

Autorenporträt

Stephen Scully is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has published on Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles, Plato, Vergil, George Chapman, and Freud. His books include Homer and the Sacred City (Cornell, 1990), Euripides' Suppliant Women, with Rosanna Warren, translation, essay, and notes (Oxford, 1995), and Plato's Phaedrus, translation, essay, and notes (Focus Publishing, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* Chapter I: Points of Comparison: Hesiod and Homer; the Theogony and
Genesis
* Chapter II: The Theogony
* Chapter III: The Theogony and Eastern Parallels: City-State
Succession Myths?
* Chapter IV: The Theogony in the Archaic and Classical periods
* Chapter V: Echoes of the Theogony in the Hellenistic and Roman
periods
* Chapter VI: Theogonic shadows: Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance,
Milton's Paradise Lost
* Bibliography