商品簡介
Eighth-century BC Greek poet Hesiod has fooled modern scholars into mistaking his narrator for him, says Stoddard (classics, Florida State U.), and they therefore have not given him due credit as a poet capable of formulating and expressing complex literary ideas. The misjudgment has affected the Theogeny, which has received attention as a repository of early concepts of justice and mythology, but has not generally been recognized and analyzed as a unified work of a skilled poet pursuing specific artistic aims. She seeks to correct the error, using narratology as the analytic method, by arguing that in a specific scene of the Proem, the poet chooses to present himself as a shepherd, and thinking about why he might have done so. Quotations are in Greek with English translation. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Kathryn B. Stoddard, Ph.D. (2000) in Classics, University of Virginia, is Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida Sate University. She has published articles on Lucretius, Solon, and Hesiod and is currently preparing a manuscript on the Works and Days of Hesiod.
