The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

Silvio Br, University of Oslo , Classical Journal-Online The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod is a fantastic volume, with chapters all written by accomplished international scholars; a volume that bespeaks the wide range of Hesiodic scholarship and reception from antiquity to today. Consequently, it is an indispensable work of reference relevant to anyone who is interested in Hesiod. Besides, it should also be part of every Homerist's library.

Gary Vos, Classics for All This is a landmark publication, unprecedented in scope and ambition: the editors and contributors are to be congratulated for achieving such comprehensive coverage of the Theogony and Works and Days throughout the ages and across a wide range of genres.

F.A. Grabowski, CHOICE ...an exemplarary achievement, comprehensive and diverse, erudite enough to satisfy scholars yet readable enough to be accessible to ambitious nonspecialists--a companion that will find use mong not only classicists but also those whose interests include comparative literature and poetry.

CHOICE As one might expect from Oxford, the contributors are some of the finest scholars in the field. Apart from the essays themselves, the text includes a fine introduction by the editors, a standard index of names and subjects, and a robust 'Index Locorum Anitiquorum.' The result is an exemplary achievement, comprehensive and diverse, erudite enough to satisfy scholars yet readable enough to be accessible to ambitious nonspecialists-a companion that will find use among not only classicists but also those whose interests include comparative literature and poetry. Essential.

Alexander C. Loney is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry, with a monograph on retributive justice in the Odyssey forthcoming with Oxford. Stephen Scully is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, Greek tragedy, Plato, Freud's antiquities, and receptions studies of Homer, Hesiod, and Vergil. Translations include Plato's Phaedrus (2003) and, with Rosanna Warren, Euripides' Suppliant Women (1995).

Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Stephen Scully and Alexander C. Loney PART I: Hesiod in Context 2 The Hesiodic Question Hugo H. Koning 3 Seventh Century Material Culture in Boiotia Stephanie Larson 4 In Hesiod's World David W. Tandy 5 The Pre-history and Analogs of Hesiod's Poetry Joshua T. Katz PART II: Hesiod's Art 6 Hesiodic Poetics Stephen Scully 7 Hesiod's Theogony and the Structures of Poetry Benjamin Sammons 8 Hesiod's Temporalities Alexander C. Loney 9 Hesiodic Theology Richard P. Martin 10 Hesiod in Performance Egbert J. Bakker 11 Hesiod's Rhetoric of Exhortation Jose M. Gonzalez 12 Gender in Hesiod: A Poetics of the Powerless Suzanne Lye PART III: Hesiod in the Greco-Roman Period 13 Solon's Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days J. A. Almeida 14 The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics Mitchell Miller 15 Deviant Origins: Hesiod's Theogony and the Orphica Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 16 Hesiod and the Visual Arts H. A. Shapiro 17 Hesiod and Pindar Tom Phillips 18 Hesiod and Tragedy Alan H. Sommerstein 19 Hesiod and Comedy Jeffrey Henderson 20 Plato's Hesiod Marcus Folch 21 Hellenistic Hesiod Lilah Grace Canevaro 22 Hesiod from Aristotle to Posidonius David Conan Wolfsdorf 23 Hesiod, Virgil, and the Georgic Tradition Stephanie Nelson 24 Ovid's Hesiodic Voices Ioannis Ziogas 25 Hesiod Transformed, Parodied and Assaulted: Hesiod in the Second Sophistic and Early Christian Thought Helen Van Noorden PART IV: Hesiod from Byzantinum to Modern Times 26 Hesiod in the Byzantine and Early Renaissance Periods Niccolo Zorzi 27 Hesiod and Christian Humanism, 1471-1667 Jessica Wolfe 28 Hesiod in the 18th and 19th Centuries Adam Lecznar 29 Theorizing with Hesiod: Freudian Constructs and Structuralism Stephen Scully and Charles Stocking 30 The Reception of Hesiod in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thomas E. Jenkins Index Locorum General Index