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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Subject |
Hesiod. Theogony.
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Hesiod. Works and days.
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Hesiod -- Knowledge -- Cosmology
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SUBJECT |
Hesiod fast |
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Theogony (Hesiod) fast |
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Works and days (Hesiod) fast |
Subject |
Religious poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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Didactic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Human beings in literature.
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Gods, Greek, in literature.
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Monsters in literature.
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Religious poetry -- History and criticism
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Religious poetry
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Cosmology
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Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
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Didactic poetry, Greek
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Gods, Greek, in literature
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Human beings in literature
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Monsters in literature
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Religious poetry, Greek
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Kosmologie.
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Wereldbeeld.
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Literatura grega.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2003046175 |
ISBN |
0511062141 |
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9780511062148 |
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0511070608 |
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9780511070600 |
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9780521823920 |
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0521823927 |
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128043659X |
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9781280436598 |
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051130787X |
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9780511307874 |
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9786610436590 |
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6610436592 |
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9780511482397 |
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0511482396 |
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1107137071 |
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9781107137073 |
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0511180926 |
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9780511180927 |
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0511205074 |
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9780511205071 |
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