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Author Clay, Jenny Strauss

Title Hesiod's cosmos / Jenny Strauss Clay
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages)
Contents Introducton -- Orientations : the Theogony -- Orientations : the Works and days -- Overtures -- The origins and nature of mankind -- The two Prometheuses -- Perspectives on gods and men -- Hybrids -- Conclusion : Hesiod and Calchas at Aulis
Summary In the Theogony and the Works and Days Hesiod provides the earliest systematic and comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life. Hesiod's Cosmos argues for reading the two poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and indexes
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Subject Hesiod. Theogony.
Hesiod. Works and days.
Hesiod -- Knowledge -- Cosmology
SUBJECT Hesiod fast
Theogony (Hesiod) fast
Works and days (Hesiod) fast
Subject Religious poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Didactic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Gods, Greek, in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Religious poetry -- History and criticism
Religious poetry
Cosmology
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
Didactic poetry, Greek
Gods, Greek, in literature
Human beings in literature
Monsters in literature
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Religious poetry, Greek
Kosmologie.
Wereldbeeld.
Literatura grega.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003046175
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