Poetry in Fragments : : Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife / / ed. by Christos Tsagalis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aloni, Antonio,; Cardin, Marta,; Davies, Malcolm,; Ercolani, Andrea,; Koning, Hugo,; Kyriakou, Irini,; Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,; Ormand, Kirk,; Pontani, Filippomaria,; Sammons, Benjamin,; Steiner, Deborah,; Tsagalis, Christos,
• HerausgeberIn: Tsagalis, Christos,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 50
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXV, 292 p.)

Next to the Theogony and the Works and Days stands an entire corpus of fragmentary works attributed to the Boeotian poet Hesiod that has during the last thirty years attracted growing scholarly interest. Whereas other studies have concentrated either on the interpretation of the best preserved work...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• Part I: Genre and Context
• Hesiod Between Performance and Written Record
• Fragments of Wisdom, Wisdom in Fragments
• Choruses and Catalogues: the Performative and Generic Context of the Asopids in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
• The Origin of Things: A Study in Contrasts
• Part II: The Catalogue of Women
• Helen, Herakles, and the End of the Heroes
• Helen’s Phantom in Fragments
• Female Ancestors in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
• The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: A Competition of Forms
• Sound-Play in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
• Part III: Hesiod’s Fragments in Rome and Byzantium
• Hesiodic Traces in Ovid’s Heroides
• Hesiod’s Fragments in Byzantium
• List of Contributors
• General Index