Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry Stamatopoulou Hardback 9781107162990

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry\n\nReception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE\n\nSurveys the complex landscape of Hesiodic reception in lyric poetry and drama in the fifth century BCE.\n\nZoe Stamatopoulou (Author)\n\n9781107162990, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 16 June 2017\n\n280 pages\n23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg\n\nHesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod. The first half of the book is dedicated to Hesiodic reception in Pindaric and Bacchylidean poetry, with a particular focus on poetics, genealogies and mythological narratives, and didactic voices. The second half examines how Hesiodic narratives are approached and appropriated in tragedy and satyr drama, especially in the Prometheus plays and in Euripides' Ion. It also explor]