Brill's Companion to Hesiod

Franco Montanari is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Genoa (Italy), a member of international research centers and associations, Director of the “Centro Italiano dell'Année Philologique” and of the "Aristarchus" project on line. He published the new Ancient Greek-Italian Dictionary and several scientific works on ancient scholarship and grammar, archaic Greek epic and other Greek poets of classical and hellenistic periods.Antonios Rengakos is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Greek Historiography, Hellenistic Literature. He is the author of Der Homertext und die hellenistischen Dichter (1993) and Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklärung (1994), and has co-edited (with A. Tsakmakis) Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) (with Th. Papanghelis) and Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (2nd ed. 2008).Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Hesiod, Greek Historiography, and Epigram. He is the author of Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homerʼs Iliad (2004), The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008), and Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008).Contributors include: Albio Cesare Cassio, Jenny Strauss Clay, Ettore Cingano, Richard Hunter, Franco Montanari, Greg Nagy, Pietro Pucci, Antonios Rengakos, Gianpiero Rosati, Ian Charles Rutherford, Evina Sistakou, Christos Tsagalis.

"This collection makes a notable contribution to Hesiodic scholarship, providing a comprehensive survey of the field in English by distinguished scholars.""A volume useful both to graduate students beginning their study of Hesiod and to scholars." Stephanie Nelson, Religious Studies Review, vol. 37 nr. 2 (2011).

• List of ContributorsAbbreviationsEditors’ IntroductionHesiod and the Literary Traditions of the Near East, Ian RutherfordThe Poetry of the Theogony, Pietro Pucci Works and Days: Tracing the Path to Arete, Jenny Strauss Clay The Hesiodic Corpus, Ettore Cingano Poetry and Poetics in the Hesiodic Corpus, Christos Tsagalis The Language of Hesiod and the Corpus Hesiodeum, Albio Cesare Cassio Hesiod’s Narrative, Antonios Rengakos Callimachus Hesiodicus Revisited, Evina Sistakou Hesiod’s Style: Towards an Ancient Analysis, Richard Hunter Hesiod and the Ancient Biographical Traditions, Gregory Nagy Ancient Scholarship on Hesiod, Franco Montanari The Latin Reception of Hesiod, Gianpiero RosatiBibliography General Index