£130.23

Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

Name: The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 130.23 GBP
Availability: InStock

Greece

Price History & Forecast

Last 1 days • 1 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Not enough data points to display chart (need at least 2 points)

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 1 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £130 (1 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £130 - £130

Price levels: 1 different prices over 1 days

Description

This volume brings together 29 junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod's poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia from shortly after the poems' conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive study of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with Hesiod's stories of the gods and moralizing proscriptions of just human behavior. The volume opens with the "Hesiodic Question," to address questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature of composition of Hesiod's two major poems, the Theogony and Works and Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of the sorts of questions that have been asked rather than an attempt to resolve debate. Other chapters discuss Hesiod's particular rendering of the supernatural and the performative nature of the Works and Days, as well as competing diachronic and synchronic temporalities and varying portrayals of female in the two poems. The rich story of reception ranges from Solon to comic books. These chapters continue to explore the nature of Hesiod's poetics, as different writers through time single out new aspects of his art less evident to earlier readers. Long before the advent of Christianity, classical writers leveled their criticism at Hesiod's version of polytheism. The relative importance of Hesiod's two major poems across time also tells us a tale of the age receiving the poems. In the past two centuries, artists and writers have come to embrace the Hesiodic stories for themselves for the insight they offer of the human condition but even as old allegory looks quaint to modern eyes new forms of allegory take form.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0190209038
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Greece
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 September 2018
Listed Since: 31 January 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days (Cambridge Classical Studies)

The Oxford Handbook of Heracles

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE

The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths: Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer’s Gods (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, Vv. 1-382 (Mnemosyne, Supplements): 86

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold

The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods

Motion in Classical Literature: Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art

The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy

The Heath Introduction to Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (Oxford Handbooks)

Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece (Pierides)

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad (Oxford Critical Guides)

The "Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi": A Commentary: 59 (Texte und Kommentare, 59)

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

The Oxford Handbook of Milton

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

The Body Unbound: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (The New Antiquity)