Poetry in Fragments: Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife

Description

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 of this corpus, the Catalogue of Women, or have offered detailed commentaries, this volume aims at bringing together studies focusing on generic and contextual factors pertaining to the various works of the Hesiodic corpus, the Catalogue of Women included, and the corpus' afterlife in Rome and Byzantium. 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