Didactic poetry of Greece, Rome and beyond knowledge, power, tradition /

Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence...

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Awduron Eraill: Canevaro, Lilah Grace (Golygydd), O'Rourke, Donncha (Golygydd)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2019.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvd58tb5
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction / Lilah Grace Canevaro and Donncha O'Rourke
  • Part I. Theory.
  • Knowledge is power: dynamics of (dis)empowerment in didactic poetry / Donncha O'Rourke
  • Thinking for yoursel: Hesiod's Works and days and cognitive training / Lilah Grace Canevaro
  • Part II. Tracing tradition.
  • Homer Ethicus / David Sider
  • Elegiac pharmacology: the didactic heirs of Nicander? / Floris Overduin
  • Name puns and acrostics in didactic poetry: reading the universe / Monica R. Gale
  • Part III. Comparisons and continuations.
  • DIdactic and apocalyptic turns: clarity and obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the Sibylline oracles / Helen Van Noorden
  • Embodied teaching: Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi and the Babylonian didactic tradition / Johannes Haubold
  • Fauna and erotic didactics in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures / Madhlozi Moyo
  • Scientia demands the Latin muse: the authority of didactic poetry in early-modern Scotland / David McOmish.