Brill’s Companion to Hesiod

443 Pages·2009·4.557 MB·English

by  Franco Montanari (ed.), Antonios Rengakos (ed.), Christos Tsagalis (ed.)

Brill’s Companion to Hesiod

Brill’s Companion to Hesiod
Editedby
Franco Montanari,
Antonios Rengakos, and Christos Tsagalis
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2009
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CONTENTS
ListofContributors.................................................... vii
Abbreviations .......................................................... xi
Editors’Introduction .................................................. 1
HesiodandtheLiteraryTraditionsoftheNearEast ................. 9
IanRutherford
ThePoetryoftheTheogony............................................ 37
PietroPucci
WorksandDays:TracingthePathtoArete ........................... 71
JennyStraussClay
TheHesiodicCorpus .................................................. 91
EttoreCingano
PoetryandPoeticsintheHesiodicCorpus........................... 131
ChristosTsagalis
TheLanguageofHesiodandtheCorpusHesiodeum................. 179
AlbioCesareCassio
Hesiod’sNarrative ..................................................... 203
AntoniosRengakos
CallimachusHesiodicusRevisited .................................... 219
EvinaSistakou
Hesiod’sStyle:TowardsanAncientAnalysis ......................... 253
RichardHunter
HesiodandtheAncientBiographicalTraditions..................... 271
GregoryNagy
AncientScholarshiponHesiod ....................................... 313
FrancoMontanari
TheLatinReceptionofHesiod........................................ 343
GianpieroRosati
vi contents
Bibliography ........................................................... 375
GeneralIndex.......................................................... 409
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS
AlbioCesareCassioisProfessorofGreekandLatinGrammarattheUniver-
sityofRome“LaSapienza”.AfterworkingonAtticcultureandespeciallyAttic
comedyhehasbecomemoreandmoreinterestedintheancientGreekdialects
and the history of the Greek language at large; he has organized conferences
onthesesubjectsandhaspublishednumerouscontributionsinItalianandfor-
eignjournals.HehasoftenbeeninvitedtodelivertalksandlecturesinItalyand
abroad(inrecenttimestheGrayLecturesatCambridge,May).
EttoreCinganoisProfessorofGreekLiteratureattheUniversityCa’Foscari
inVenice.HismaininterestslieinGreekepic,lyricpoetry,andearlymythog-
raphy.HehaseditedthePythianodesofPindarintheFondazioneVallaseries
and written extensively on lyric and epic fragments. Some of his most recent
publicationsare:“TradizioniepicheintornoadArgodaOmeroalVIsec.a.C.”,
in:P.AngeliBernardini(ed.),LacittàdiArgo.Mito,storia,tradizionipoetiche.
AttidelConvegnoInternazionale(Urbino,–..),Rome,–;
“LatragediainGrecia”,in:G.Guastella(ed.),Lerinascitedellatragedia.Origini
classicheetradizionieuropee,Urbino, –;“Laculturapoetica:forme,
contesti,dimensionepragmatica”,in:M.Giangiulio(ed.),IlMondoanticoII.
GreciaeMediterraneodall’VIIIsec.a.C.all’Etàdelleguerrepersiane,Rome,
–;“TeseoeiTeseiditraTroiaeAtene”,in:P.AngeliBernardini(ed.),L’epos
minore,letradizionilocalielapoesiaarcaica,Rome,–.
JennyStraussClayisWilliamR.KenanJr.ProfessorofClassicsattheUniver-
sityofVirginiaandauthorofTheWrathofAthena(,reprinted),The
PoliticsofOlympus(,reprinted),andHesiod’sCosmos()aswell
asnumerousarticlesonGreekandRomanpoetry.Sheiscurrentlyworkingon
theIliad.
RichardHunterisRegiusProfessorofGreekattheUniversityofCambridge
andaFellowofTrinityCollege.HisresearchinterestsincludeHellenisticpoetry
and its reception in Rome, ancient literary criticism, and the ancient novel.
His most recent books are The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions
andReconstructions(Cambridge),TheShadowofCallimachus(Cambridge
),(withIanRutherford)WanderingPoetsinAncientGreekCulture(Cam-
bridge ) and Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge ).
Many of his essays have been collected in On Coming After: Studies in Post-
ClassicalGreekLiteratureanditsReception(Berlin).
FrancoMontanariisProfessorofAncientGreekLiteratureattheUniversity
ofGenova(Italy).Heisamemberofinternationalresearchcentersandassoci-
ations(FédérationInternationaledesAssociationsdesÉtudesClassiques-FIEC,
InternationalCouncilfor Philosophy andHumanistic Studies-ICPHS, Société
InternationaledeBibliographieClassique-SIBC,FondationHardtpourl’Étude
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del’AntiquitéClassique,CentroStudisuipapirieidocumentiantichi“G.Vitelli”
ofFlorence),Directorofthe“CentroItalianodell’AnnéePhilologique”andofthe
“Aristarchus”project(www.aristarchus.unige.it).HepublishedthenewAncient
Greek-ItalianDictionary“GI–Vocabolariodellalinguagreca”andseveralscien-
tificworks.
GregoryNagyistheauthorofTheBestoftheAchaeans:ConceptsoftheHero
in Archaic Greek Poetry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, ; nd ed.,
withnewIntroduction,).OtherpublicationsincludePlato’sRhapsodyand
Homer’sMusic:ThePoeticsofthePanathenaicFestivalinClassicalAthens(Har-
vardUniversityPress),Homer’sTextandLanguage(UniversityofIllinois
Press ), Homer the Classic (Harvard University Press ), and Homer
thePreclassic(UniversityofCaliforniaPress).Heco-editedwithStephen
A.MitchellthethanniversarysecondeditionofAlbertLord’sTheSingerof
Tales (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature vol. ; Harvard University
Press, ), co-authoring with Mitchell the new Introduction, pp. vii–xxix.
Since,hehasbeentheDirectoroftheHarvardCenterforHellenicStudies
inWashingtonDC,whilecontinuingtoteachattheHarvardcampusinCam-
bridgeastheFrancisJonesProfessorofClassicalGreekLiteratureandProfessor
ofComparativeLiterature.
PietroPucciisProfessorofClassicsatCornellUniversity(Ithaca,NY).Heis
theauthorofseveralessaysandbooksonGreekepic,tragedy,andphilosophy.
Hisresearchhasfocusedespeciallyonthepoetictenetsofworksofliterature.His
recentbooksare:TheSongoftheSirens.EssaysonHomer(Lanham-Boulder-New
York-Oxford,);Xenophon,Socrates’Defence.IntroductionandCommentary
byPietroPucci(Amsterdam,);SofocleFilottete.AcuradiGuidoAvezzùe
PietroPucci,FondazioneLorenzoValla(Milan,);InnoalleMuse:Esiodo,
Teogonia,–(Pisa-Rome,).
AntoniosRengakosisProfessorofGreekattheAristotleUniversityofThes-
saloniki.HisresearchinterestsincludeHomer,historiography,andHellenistic
poetry.Heisco-editor(withTheodorePapanghelis)oftheCompaniontoApol-
loniusRhodius(Leiden;nded.),ofBrill’sCompaniontoThucydides
(withAntonisTsakmakis;Leiden),andofLapoésieépiquegrecque:méta-
morphosesd’ungenrelittéraire(withFrancoMontanari;Geneva).Heisalso
co-editor(withF.Montanari)oftheseriesTrendsinClassicsSupplementaryVol-
umesandofthejournalTrendsinClassics(WalterdeGruyter,Berlin).
GianpieroRosatiisProfessorofLatinliteratureattheUniversityofUdine.He
istheauthorofNarcisoePigmalione()andnumerousotherpublications
on Ovid and Latin literature of the Augustan age and of the early empire. He
hascontributed(books–)tothecommentaryonOvid’sMetamorphosesthat
isbeingpublishedbytheFondazioneVallaunderthedirectionofA.Barchiesi.
IanCharlesRutherford,ProfessorofGreek,UniversityofReading,author
ofPindar’sPaeans:aReadingoftheFragmentswithaSurveyoftheGenre(Oxford,
).CurrentlyworkingonmonographsonGreekstate-pilgrimage(theoria)
and on the relation between Greek and Hittite religion. Major research inter-
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ests:Greekpoetry,Greekreligion,thereligionsofearlyAnatoliaandrelations
betweenGreekandEgyptianliterature.
EvinaSistakouisAssistantProfessorofGreekLiteratureattheAristotleUni-
versityofThessaloniki.Herpublicationsinclude:ReconstructingtheEpic.Cross-
ReadingsoftheTrojanMythinHellenisticPoetry(Leuven,)andTheGeo-
graphy of Callimachus and Hellenistic Avant-Garde Poetry (Athens , in
ModernGreek).HerrecentcontributionsconcernthestudyofGreekepigram,
Lycophron,Apollonius,CallimachusandHellenisticpoetics.
ChristosTsagalisisAssociateProfessorofGreekLiteratureattheAristotle
UniversityofThessaloniki.HeistheauthorofEpicGrief:PersonalLamentsin
Homer’sIliad(WalterdeGruyter),TheOralPalimpsest:ExploringIntertex-
tualityintheHomericEpics(HarvardUniversityPress),InscribingSorrow:
Fourth-CenturyAtticFuneraryEpigrams(WalterdeGruyter).Heco-edited
(with N. Bezantakos) the volume Mousao¯n Archo¯metha: Hesiod and Archaic
GreekEpic(inModernGreek,),withA.RengakosPrizesandContestsin
HomericEpic(Athens,)andwithA.MarkantonatosGreekTragedy:Theory
andPraxis(Athens,).HehaspublishedonHomer,Hesiod,historiography,
andGreekepigram.