TY  - GEN
T1  - Hesiod and Aeschylus
T2  - Cornell studies in classical philology ;
A1  - Solmsen, Friedrich, 1904-1989
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1036986462
AB  - Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice. In this new order, however, the good aspects of the past would be preserved, giving an inner continuity and strength to the changing world.Solmsen traces the influence of Hesiod's ideas on other Athenian poets, Aeschylus in particular. From personal political experience Aeschylus could give a deeper meaning to Hesiod's dream of an organic historical evolution and of a synthesis of old and new powers. For Aeschylus, justice became the crucial problem of the political community as well as of the divine order. Through close readings of Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days and of Aeschylus' Prometheia and Eumenides, Solmsen reinterprets the political ideas of the Greek city state and the relation between divine and human justice as seen by early Greek poets.First published in 1949, this book has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence. For the 1995 paperback edition, G. M. Kirkwood has written a new foreword that addresses the book's reception and discusses more recent scholarship on the works Solmsen examines, including the disputed authorship of Prometheia.
OP  - 230
NO  - "First published 1949 by Cornell University Press"--Title page verso.
CN  - PA3829 .S55 1995eb
SN  - 9780801466700
SN  - 0801466709
SN  - 9780801482748
SN  - 0801482747
KW  - Aeschylus : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Hesiod : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Aeschylus : Religion.
KW  - Hesiod : Influence.
KW  - Aeschylus
KW  - Hesiod
KW  - Hésiode, : (07.?-07.? av. J.-C.) : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Eschyle, : (0525?-0456 av. J.-C.) : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Solon, : (0640?-0561 av. J.-C.) : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Hesiodus.
KW  - Aeschylus.
KW  - Religious drama, Greek : History and criticism.
KW  - Greek literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) : History : To 1500.
KW  - Mythology, Greek, in literature.
KW  - Gods, Greek, in literature.
KW  - Tragedy.
KW  - Théâtre religieux grec : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature grecque : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
KW  - Dieux grecs dans la littérature.
KW  - Tragédie.
KW  - tragedies.
KW  - tragedy (general genre)
KW  - DRAMA : Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
KW  - Gods, Greek, in literature
KW  - Greek literature
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Mythology, Greek, in literature
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious drama, Greek
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - Dieux grecs : Dans la littérature.
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -