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Hesiod and Aeschylus
No full textThis book, first published in 1949, has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence on other Athenian poets, particularly Aeschylus.Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: HESIOD -- CHAPTER I. The Theogony -- Introduction -- The Origin of the World: Three Generations of Gods -- Powers of Good and of Evil in the World of Hesiod -- The Role of Zeus in the Theogony -- Cosmology and Theogony -- The Synthesis of Old and New Figures, Earlier and Later Generations -- CHAPTER II. The Works and Days -- PART TWO: SOLON AND AESCHYLUS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. Solon -- CHAPTER II. Aeschylus: The Prometheia -- Zeus and Prometheus -- The Crisis of the Olympian Dynasty -- CHAPTER III. Aeschylus: The Eumenides -- Index -- AUTHORS -- A -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- X -- DEITIES AND CONCEPTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- ZThis book, first published in 1949, has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence on other Athenian poets, particularly Aeschylus.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
A Canonical Author: The Case of Hesiod
Full text linkThis chapter presents a case study of the Lexicon’s treatment of a single author, Hesiod. Early Greek poetry in general, and that of Hesiod in particular, presents certain difficulties for the historical approach which do not arise for texts of later periods. The main body of the chapter is divided into three sections, treating different respects in which Liddell and Scott (LSJ), and the historical principle it adopts, may seem problematic for the modern reader of Hesiod. The first section considers the ways in which LSJ conflicts with current beliefs concerning the text and dating of Hesiod. The second outlines some respects in which the historical principle may be inadequate for dealing with early Greek hexameter in general, given more recent scholarship on the nature and semantics of formulaic verse. The third treats more idiosyncratic features of Hesiod’s poetry that are particularly noteworthy for the lexicographer. Throughout, the main focus is on the Theogony and the Works and Days
Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi: Introduction, Critical Edition and Commentary
Full text linkThis dissertation provides an up-to-date introduction to the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, a critical edition of the text, and the first commentary in English on it. The Certamen is an anonymous work composed around the second century AD. It gives an account of the lives of Homer and Hesiod and of their poetic contest by re-elaborating biographical anecdotes attested from the sixth century BC onwards. As a biographical work that draws on older texts and oral traditions which developed over hundreds of years, it yields unique insights into the reception of early Greek Epic in the course of classical antiquity.
This thesis begins with an introduction to the tradition of the contest between Homer and Hesiod that collects and discusses the extant ancient accounts of that story. It argues that all versions are equally authoritative in principle, for they testify to different acts of reception of the poets in different contexts. The thesis then offers an up-to-date analysis of the manuscript witnesses of the Certamen and of their contribution to our understanding of the textual tradition of this text, and shows that the ancient biographies of the poets form a corpus that is naturally open to variation. The Edition provides a text that accounts for such an open tradition. The line-by-line Commentary offers a systematic analysis of both general and specific issues related to the text: this is a necessary and urgent task, not least because the Certamen is a stratified text, bringing together traditions of very different provenance, which can only be assessed and interpreted through a process of close reading.
The ultimate aim of the thesis is to show how the story of the contest between Homer and Hesiod provides crucial insights into the processes of reception and canonisation of early hexameter epic from the archaic period to late antiquity
Hesioďs Theogony
Full text linkThis thesis offers a textual interpretation of the Theogony, which is a text often ascribed by classical scholars to the author Hesiod. The thesis then turns its attention to discuss the narrative findings in relation to historical determined interpretations of early Greek literary texts. The thesis will examine how a culture determined interpretation of ancient literary sources can either negate or support a narrative approach. Chapter One of this thesis focuses on determining a methodological approach for text analysis, and does so by providing a critique of the traditional methods of Chapter Two offers a textual analysis of the Theogony, examining its fabula, focalizations and characterizations as presented by the text. Then Chapter Three explores how useful a textual analysis can be in historical discussion. This chapter will also investigate how our findings of Chapter Two have possibly re-shaped our appreciation of former historical research for ancient Greek literature. In particular, this chapter will offer a brief discussion on ancient religion and early Greek philosophy. The Conclusion will be brief and simply outline possible next steps in research drawn from the discussions of the previous chapters
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Lelantine War, Eretria and Chalkis, and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod
No full textThis post is about a poetic competition or Certamen ‘Contest’ that took place, story has it, between Homer and Hesiod. In all attested versions of the story, Hesiod won and Homer lost. In some versions, as we will see, the setting for Hesiod’s victory was memorialized in the city-state of Chalkis, located on the island of Euboea, and this detail is relevant, as we will also see, to stories about a protracted conflict involving Chalkis and a rival city-state, Eretria, which was located on the same island of Euboea. Such a conflict, which historians date as ongoing from around 750 to 506 BCE, is commonly known as the Lelantine War. The ancient historian Thucydides (1.15.3) draws attention to the grand dimensions of this protracted conflict, observing that many other city states got involved and took sides by making alliances with either Eretria or Chalkis. Such conflicting alliances, it can be argued, correspond to conflicting appropriations of Homeric and Hesiodic poetry by city-states that sided with Eretria and Chalkis respectively. Thus the Lelantine War can even be viewed as a stylized conflict between “team Homer” and “team Hesiod” respectively.The ClassicsVersion of Recor
Hes. frg. 193,16-17 (M.-W.): Frauenkataloge
No full textDer Kontext dieses Zitates findet sich in den Erzählungen um Elektryon, Lysidike und deren Tochter Alkmene: Elektryon entführte Lysidike, die Tochter des Pelops, und zeugte mit ihr u. a. Alkmene. Die Taphier töteten jedoch bei einem Angriff von der See aus jedoch die ganze Familie bis auf Alkmene. In asp. 19 bringt Hesiod die Taphier in Verbindung mit den Teleboern
Hesiod
No full textHesiod (?) Farnese. Naples Nat\u27l. Mus. 6140. XII.13.5https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/ferguson_photos/1275/thumbnail.jp
The Hawk and the Nightingale: Hesiod
No full textThis little pamphlet has four folded pages. It starts with a page featuring the upper half of a hawk and Now I will tell a tale to princes who will understand it:… Two facing pages then present Hesiod's fable. The next page points a moral to Perses. The work seems almost an experiment in the presentation of typeface. That first page includes three different sets of print. The final page presents words that run over into the next line and one line printed mirror-backwards. The colophon page -- headed by Greek letters KOLOPHON -- presents two other typefaces. The binding is a lovely white thread.100 copiesRadomir Putnikovic
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