Playing Hesiod : the 'myth of the races' in classical antiquity /

Main Author: Noorden, Helen Van, 1981-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , [2015].
Series:Cambridge classical studies
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505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- Texts, translations and abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Approaching Hesiod -- The argument of this book: an 'alternative account' -- Identifying a 'Hesiodic' project -- Ages and stages, heroes and chronologies -- Reading the races in Hesiod, and Hesiod in the races -- Chapter 2: Embedding the races in Hesiod -- Introduction -- The Works and Days: ''argument' is perhaps too grand a word'? -- The importance of the 'myth of the races' -- Framing the races -- Structures in the 'myth of the races' -- Emphases in the narrative of the races -- The emergence of 'Hesiod' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'hesiodic' projects -- Introduction: challenging the unimportance of Hesiod -- Didactic (re)constructions: the Protagoras -- Socrates' 'Hesiodic' project: the Republic -- Further experiments: the statesman -- Conclusion: transforming Hesiodic pedagogy -- Chapter 4: 'They called her justice ... ': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena -- Introduction: approaching the Phaenomena -- The maiden and the Phaenomena -- Hesiod in the Phaenomena -- Conclusion: didactic ramifications -- Chapter 5: Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Introduction: backgrounds -- Periodization -- Alternative accounts -- Conclusion: Ovid's 'Hesiod' -- Chapter 6: Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome -- Prologue: Ovid's Pythagoras and the degeneration of didactic -- Didactic hazard a: the pupil in the Octavia -- Didactic hazard b: the speaker in Juvenal Satire 6 -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: playing 'hesiod'. 
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