By Helen Van Noorden

ISBN-10: 052176081X

ISBN-13: 9780521760812

This publication bargains a brand new description of the importance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for old Greek and Roman authors, displaying how the main specific responses to this tale cross a ways past nostalgia for a misplaced 'golden' age or desire of its go back. via a chain of shut readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the tale to reconstruct 'Hesiod' extra widely as predecessor in forming their very own highbrow and rhetorical initiatives; disciplines comparable to philosophy, didactic poetry and satire all have interaction in implicit questions about 'Hesiodic' educating. the 1st bankruptcy re-evaluates the account in Hesiod's Works and Days. an enormous bankruptcy outlines Plato's use of Hesiod via shut examine of the Protagoras, Republic and Statesman. next chapters specialise in Aratus' Phaenomena and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the ultimate bankruptcy, at the Octavia attributed to Seneca and Juvenal's 6th Satire, broadens rules of Hesiod's reception in Rome.

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