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Playing Hesiod

Name: Playing Hesiod
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 04619052
Price: 157.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Helen Van Noorden
ISBN: 9780521760812

The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity

Helen Van Noorden

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04619052

Publishers Cambridge University Press, December 2014

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Libristo code: 04619052

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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 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.