By Richard Hunter

ISBN-10: 1107046904

ISBN-13: 9781107046900

ISBN-10: 1107624975

ISBN-13: 9781107624979

This e-book selects primary texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how those moments have been the most important in fashioning the assumption of 'didactic literature'. A critical bankruptcy considers the advance of historic rules approximately didactic poetry, depending no longer loads on particular severe conception as on how Hesiod used to be learn and used from the earliest interval of reception onwards. different chapters think of Hesiodic reception within the archaic poetry of Alcaeus and Simonides, within the classical prose of Plato, Xenophon and Isocrates, within the Aesopic culture, and within the imperial prose of Dio Chrysostom and Lucian; there's additionally a groundbreaking learn of Plutarch's large statement at the Works and Days and an account of old principles of Hesiod's linguistic variety. this can be a significant and leading edge contribution to the learn of Hesiod's notable poem and to the Greek literary engagement with the past.

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