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Hesiod's Theogony

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190463848
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Hesiod's Theogony written by Stephen Scully and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.e., the Theogony]...and justify the ways of God to men." Scully also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories, including the Enûma elish and Genesis, as well as the most striking of modern "scientific myths," Freud's Civilization and its Discontents. Scully reads Hesiod's poem as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, arguing that Olympus is portrayed as an idealized polity and--with but one exception--a place of communal harmony. This reading informs his study of the Theogony's reception in later writings about polity, discord, and justice. The rich and various story of reception pays particular attention to the long Homeric Hymns, Solon, the Presocratics, Pindar, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Plato in the Archaic and Classical periods; to the Alexandrian scholars, Callimachus, Euhemerus, and the Stoics in the Hellenistic period; to Ovid, Apollodorus, Lucian, a few Church fathers, and the Neoplatonists in the Roman period. Tracing the poem's reception in the Byzantine, medieval, and early Renaissance, including Petrarch and Erasmus, the book ends with a lengthy exploration of Milton's imitations of the poem in Paradise Lost. Scully also compares what he considers Hesiod's artful interplay of narrative, genealogical lists, and keen use of personified abstractions in the Theogony to Homeric narrative techniques and treatment of epic verse.

God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil

Author : Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195353579
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil written by Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.

Theogony and Works and Days

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081013487X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Theogony and Works and Days written by Hesiod and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies a seminal position in literary history. His Theogony brings together and formalizes many of the narratives of Greek myth, detailing the genealogy of its gods and their violent struggles for power. The Works and Days seems on its face to be a compendium of advice about managing a farm, but it ranges far beyond this scope to meditate on morality, justice, the virtues of a good life, and the place of humans in the universe. These poems are concerned with orderliness and organization, and they proclaim those ideals from small-scale to vast, from a handful of seeds to the story of the cosmos. Presented here in a bilingual edition, Johnson’s translation takes care to preserve the structure of Hesiod’s lines and sentences, achieving a sonic and rhythmic balance that enables us to hear his music across the millennia.

Hesiod's Cosmos

Author : Jenny Strauss Clay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139440586
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Hesiod's Cosmos written by Jenny Strauss Clay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

God and the Land

Author : Stephanie Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199723990
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book God and the Land written by Stephanie Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.

The Children of Athena

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236836
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Children of Athena written by Nicole Loraux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191553425
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite written by Andrew Faulkner and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, which tells of the seduction of the shepherd Anchises by the love-goddess Aphrodite, has long been recognized as a masterpiece of early Western literature. This edition is designed as a reference tool to aid scholars and students in their study of the poem. The introduction and commentary deal with points of language appropriate to the specialist or student of Greek, but also with matters of literary interpretation of interest to the non-specialist reader.

Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437684
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists written by Michael Gagarin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including the works of more than thirty authors, this edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes the origin of human society and law; the nature of justice and good government; the distribution of power among genders and social classes.

Birth of Nomos

Author : Thanos Zartaloudis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474442021
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Birth of Nomos written by Thanos Zartaloudis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to give us a new and complete understanding of nomos and its foundational place in the Western legal tradition.

Homer’s Iliad

Author : Claude Brügger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504290
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Homer’s Iliad written by Claude Brügger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into traditional areas of Homeric scholarship (e.g., language, the structure of the text, etc.) has come a long way since the last comprehensive commentaries on the Iliad were carried out, that is, the commentary by Ameis-Hentze in German language in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century as well as the Cambridge commentary by Kirk et. al. in English language in the 1980/90s. Much of this kind of research is now set upon a much surer methodological and theoretical foundation. Developments in the field of Mycenology and in the study of Linear B, oral poetry, and the history of ancient Troy in particular, have made possible a number of new insights and interpretive possibilities in Homer’s epic. Moreover, modern secondary literature of all major languages has been systematically covered. The "Basel Commentary" to the Iliad is a new, up-to-date, standard work that addresses these issues directly and will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students alike. Central to the commentary on Iliad 24 is the interpretation of one of the most exciting and most moving scenes of the Iliad: how Priam, the king of Troy, makes his way to his mortal enemy Achilles, by whose hand his son Hector had fallen; how the god Hermes leads the old man almost magically into the army camp of the Greeks; how Achilles, at the end of an emotional encounter with Priam, leaves the body of Hector for burial.

Sexual Asymmetry

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Epic and Romance Criticism

Author : Arthur Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Epic and Romance Criticism written by Arthur Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod

Author : Heber Michel Hays
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book Notes on the Works and Days of Hesiod written by Heber Michel Hays and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mnemosyne

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Mnemosyne written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Offprints

Author : Willem Jacob Verdenius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Selected Offprints written by Willem Jacob Verdenius and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Law of Ancient Athens

Author : David Phillips
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472029266
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Ancient Athens written by David Phillips and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE. This accessible and important volume is designed for teachers, students, and general readers interested in the ancient Greek world, the history of law, and the history of democracy, an Athenian invention during this period. Offering a comprehensive treatment of Athenian law, it assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and is organized in user-friendly fashion, progressing from the person to the family to property and obligations to the gods and to the state. David D. Phillips has translated all sources into English, and he has added significant introductory and explanatory material. Topics covered in the book include homicide and wounding; theft; marriage, children, and inheritance; citizenship; contracts and commerce; impiety; treason and other offenses against the state; and sexual offenses including rape and prostitution. The volume’s unique feature is its presentation of the actual primary sources for Athenian laws, with many key or disputed terms rendered in transliterated Greek. The translated sources, together with the topical introductions, notes, and references, will facilitate both research in the field and the teaching of increasingly popular courses on Athenian law and law in the ancient world.