A Commentary On Hesiod

Author : W.J. Verdenius
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004328211

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A Commentary on Hesiod by W.J. Verdenius Pdf

This is a word-for-word commentary on the first part (vv. 1-382) of Hesiod's Works and Days. Special attention has been paid to peculiarities of grammar and idiom, but also to figures of style and the poet's train of thought. All interpretations - many of them which are new - are documented as fully, but at the same time as concisely, as possible. This documentation, which will prove useful for the interpretation of many other texts, has been made more easily accesible by detailed indexes. Discussion of other views plays a considerable part in the commentary and will help the reader avoid a great number of minor and major misunderstandings. The commentary has been confined to the first part of the poem because this seemed to be more in need of a thorough explanation than the rest. It is also the most interesting part in so far as it forms a kind of manual of social morality. The basis concepts of this doctrine are carefully defined in the commentary, and their historical implications are briefly indicated.

Author : Martin Litchfield West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Greek language
ISBN : OCLC:48899870

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A Commentary on Hesiod's Theogony by Martin Litchfield West Pdf

Author : Hesiod,Richard Hamilton
Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015056460432

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Hesiod's Theogony by Hesiod,Richard Hamilton Pdf

Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation.

Author : Hesiod,Richard Hamilton,Rebecca Ruttenberg
Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Didactic poetry, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015056165114

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Hesiod's Works and days by Hesiod,Richard Hamilton,Rebecca Ruttenberg Pdf

This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's "Works and Days" is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose "Works and Days" discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to "Works and Days" for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of "Works and Days."

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Greek poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106001534418

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The Epics of Hesiod by Hesiod Pdf

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191593499

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Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod Pdf

Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating light on archaic Greek society. As well as offering the earliest known sources for the myths of Pandora, Prometheus and the Golden Age, Hesiod's poetry provides a valuable account of the ethics and superstitions of the society in which he lived. Unlike Homer, Hesiod writes about himself and his family, and he stands out as the first personality in European literature. This new translation, by a leading expert on the Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability. It is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Hesiodus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : OCLC:315408445

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The Epics of Hesiod by Hesiodus Pdf

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0674996224

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Hesiod: Theogony, Works and days, Testimonia by Hesiod Pdf

Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but he has often been considered a younger contemporary of Homer. This volume of the new Loeb Classical Library edition offers a general introduction, a fluid translation facing an improved Greek text of Hesiod's two extant poems, and a generous selection of testimonia from a wide variety of ancient sources regarding Hesiod's life, works, and reception. In Theogony Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, and reporting on the progeny of Zeus and of goddesses in union with mortal men. In Works and Days Hesiod shifts his attention to the world of men, delivering moral precepts and practical advice regarding agriculture, navigation, and many other matters; along the way he gives us the myths of Pandora and of the Golden, Silver, and other Races of Men.

Author : Hesiod Hesiod
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0265542685

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The Epics of Hesiod by Hesiod Hesiod Pdf

Excerpt from The Epics of Hesiod: With an English Commentary and the Readings of Fourteen Mss. Collated for This Work Whatever opinions may be held as to the real dates of the Homeric and the Hesiodic poems, both in their original forms and in the perhaps much altered and interpolated recensions which have come down to us, one fact remains indisputable; they are the only extant Greek writings which have any claim even to approximate to the Epic age, properly so called. Con sequently: their value merely as literature is not the only ground of their fitness and utility for students of Greek; they are not less important in a linguistic point of view, viz. As affording an insight into the peculiarities of the Epic style and dialect, all the more valuable because emanating from distinct centres of the epic art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0806118466

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The Poems of Hesiod by Hesiod Pdf

Hesiod is the first Greek and, therefore, the first European we can know as a real person, for, unlike Homer, he tells us about himself in his poems. Hesiod seems to have been a successful farmer and a rather gloomy though not humorless man. One suspects from his concern for the bachelor's lot and some rather unflattering remarks about women that he was never married. A close study of both poems reveals the same personality -that of a deeply religious man concerned with the problems of justice and fate.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520917359

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Works and Days by Hesiod Pdf

This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have turned to Works and Days for its insights on Greek mythology and religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the early archaic period. The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of Works and Days.

Author : Paola Bassino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110583489

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The >Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi by Paola Bassino Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive study of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, an influential ancient Greek text that narrates the lives of Homer and Hesiod and their legendary poetic contest. It offers new perspectives on the nature, uses, and legacy of the text and its tale of literary competition. Located within a recent trend in scholarship that treats ancient biographies as modes of literary reception, the first chapter discusses how, for authors throughout antiquity and beyond, staging an imaginary competition between Homer and Hesiod was an adaptable and flexible way to convey a diverse range of speculations on epic poetry. The study of the manuscript tradition reassesses the relationships between the text of the Certamen preserved in its entirety in one single manuscript, and a small number of fragmentary witnesses on papyrus. It also presents new textual evidence demonstrating the success and circulation of the text in the Renaissance, and a new critical edition with translation. The commentary focuses on how the text characterises the two poets and encourages reflection on their respective wisdom, aesthetic and ethical values, divine inspiration, and Panhellenic appeal. It also addresses the role of Alcidamas as a source for the Certamen and identifies other sophistic influences.

Author : Kathryn B. Stoddard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047413851

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The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod by Kathryn B. Stoddard Pdf

This volume analyzes the narrative structure of the Theogony to support the argument that this poem is a didactic poem explaining the position of man in the divine universe. It discusses how Hesiod employs narratological devices to achieve his purposes.

Author : Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195353570

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God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil by Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University Pdf

In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.

Author : Frederick A. Paley,Hesiod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337910076

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The Epics of Hesiod by Frederick A. Paley,Hesiod Pdf