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.

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Leopoldo Iribarren and Hugo Koning -- 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 / André Laks -- 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 / Tom Mackenzie -- 5 The World of the Catalogue / Glenn W. Most -- 6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics / Ilaria Andolfi -- Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews -- 7 Thinking about Time and Eternity—From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle / Sandra Šćepanović -- 8 δίκη in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus / Stephen Scully -- 9 Xenophanes’ Rejection of Theogony / Shaul Tor -- 10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity -- 11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint / Kathryn Morgan -- 12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE / Athanassios Vergados -- 13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles / Xavier Gheerbrant -- 14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod’s Theogony 783–806 and Empedocles’ Fragment DK B115 / Marco Antonio Santamaría -- 15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato / Valeria Piano -- General Index -- Index Locorum.