Teaching through Images

Jenny Strauss Clay is William Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia. She has written extensively on early Greek poetry including The Wrath of Athena, The Politics of Olympus, Hesiod’s Cosmos, and Homer’s Trojan Theater.Athanassios Vergados is Professor of Greek at Newcastle University. His publications include A Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (De Gruyter) and Hesiod’s Verbal Craft: Studies in Hesiod’s Conception of Language and its Ancient Reception (OUP).Contributors are Ilaria Andolfi, Arnold Bärtschi, Abigail Buglass, Noah Davies-Mason, Joseph Farrell, Monica R. Gale, Patrick Glauthier, Christoph G. Leidl (†), John F. Miller, Eva Marie Noller, Zackary Rider, Zoe Stamatopoulou, Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados, Anke Walter.

"This volume provides a welcome redirection of these efforts by starting from the idea that didactic is first and foremost poetry and therefore explicable by the major approaches usually followed in the analysis of ancient poetry (especially intertextuality). (...) As a result, the book under review will be essential reading for all scholars of ancient hexameter poetry and for those who work on any didactic poet covered in its various chapters. (...) The editors are to be commended for providing a remarkably cohesive volume of papers written by a group of renowned scholars at the top of their powers. Cumulatively, these essays make an important contribution to most of the major scholarly issues involved in the study of didactic poetry. Essential reading, then, that will remain so for the foreseeable future." Jason Nethercut, BMCR 2022.10.02