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Playing Hesiod
- The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity
Engelsk Hardback
Playing Hesiod
- The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
360
ISBN-13:
9780521760812
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
052176081X
Udg. Dato:
15 dec 2014
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
138mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 2014
Forfatter(e):
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