Title Hesiod's works and days : how to teach self-sufficiency / Lilah Grace Canevaro

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) Contents Two reading traditions: linear and excerpting -- Two structuring strategies: detaching and tethering -- Two ideals: self-sufficiency and didacticism -- Didactic methods -- Filling the gaps Summary Greek poet Hesiod's canonical archaic text, the 'Works and Days', was performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied. In this volume, Lilah Grace Canevaro situates the poem within these two modes of reading and argues that the text itself, through Hesiod's complex mechanism of rendering elements detachable while tethering them to their context for the purposes of the poem, sustains both treatments. One of the poem's difficulties is that Hesiod gives remarkably little advice on how to negotiate these different modes of reading. Canevaro considers the didactic methods employed by Hesiod from two perspectives: in terms of the gaps he leaves, and of how he challenges his audience to fill them. She argues that Hesiod's reticence is linked to the high value he places on self-sufficiency, which creates a productive tension with the didactic thrust of the poem as teaching always involves a relationship of exchange and, at least up to a point, reliance and trust. Hesiod negotiates this potential contradiction by advocating not blind adherence to his teachings but thinking for oneself and working for one's lesson. Exploring key issues such as gender and genre, and persona and performance, this volume places this important poem within a wider context, revealing how it draws on and contributes to a tradition of usefulness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2015) Subject Hesiod. Works and days. Hesiod -- Criticism and interpretation Hesiod -- Influence SUBJECT Works and days (Hesiod) fast Subject Didactic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Mythology, Greek, in literature. Greek literature -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Greek literature Grekisk mytologi i litteraturen. Influenser. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191796401 0191796409 9780191045837 0191045837 0198729545 9780198729549

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