Hesiod and the beginnings of Greek philosophy / / Leopoldo Iribarren, Hugo H. Koning, editors.

• Superior document: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• TeilnehmendeR: Iribarren, Leopoldo,; Koning, Hugo H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.; Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 455.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (365 pages)
• Notes: This fascinating volume rethinks the relationship between early Greek philosophers and the epic poet Hesiod, by presenting fifteen studies that offer different perspectives on matters of style, genre, intertextuality and the history of ideas.
• Other title: Acknowledgements --; List of Abbreviations --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction /; Part 1 Reflections on Hesiod’s Poetry and the Beginnings of Philosophy --; 1 On Naming the Origins: Hesiod vs. the Ionians --; 2 Aristotelian Perspectives on Hesiod: A Programmatic Sketch /; 3 Hesiod and the Presocratics: A Hellenistic Perspective? --; Richard Hunter --; Part 2 Comparisons of Form and Genre --; 4 Hesiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative /; 5 The World of the Catalogue /; 6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics /; Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews --; 7 Thinking about Time and Eternity—From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle /; 8 δίκη in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus /; 9 Xenophanes’ Rejection of Theogony /; 10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles /; Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity --; 11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint /; 12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE /; 13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles /; 14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod’s Theogony 783–806 and Empedocles’ Fragment DK B115 /; 15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato /; General Index --; Index Locorum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004513922
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Leopoldo Iribarren, Hugo H. Koning, editors.

What is the role of Hesiod’s poetry in the beginnings of Greek philosophy? This book explores the question by going beyond the traditional responses that stress either continuities or discontinuities between myth and philosophy. Instead, this volume attempts a reflexive or response-oriented approach, that highlights the active re-appropriation and renewal of Hesiodic thought by the Presocratic philosophers. Its fifteen contributions offer large scale comparisons, historiographical considerations, thematic and generic approaches, and detailed case studies.