Helen van Noorden

Playing Hesiod

The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod's five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of 'Hesiod'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760812
• ISBN-10: 052176081X
• Artikelnr.: 41610900

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Approaching Hesiod
2. Embedding the races in Hesiod
3. 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'Hesiodic' projects
4. 'They called her Justice¿': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena
5. Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses
6. Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome
Conclusion: playing Hesiod.