Jenny Strauss Clay
Autore di Hesiod's Cosmos
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Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (1983), an influential study of the Odyssey; The Politics of Olympus (1989; 2006), a groundbreaking study of the Homeric Hymns; as mostra altro well as numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry. Her book, Hesiod's Cosmos (2003), on the Theogony and the Works and Days, offers a new and coherent synthesis of the two poems. mostra meno
Opere di Jenny Strauss Clay
The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in The Odyssey (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) (1983) 17 copie
Panhellenes at methone : graph in late geometric and protoarchaic methone (2017) — A cura di — 2 copie
Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 370) (2020) — A cura di — 1 copia
The Hecate of the Theogony 1 copia
Opere correlate
Archaic and Classical Choral Song Performance, Politics and Dissemination (2011) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 455) (2022) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Arethusa (vol 29 no 2): The New Simonides — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Wisdom, Love, and Friendship in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Daniel Devereux (Beiträge zur… (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 114) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Hesiod's Cosmos is almost like a PhD thesis. With annotation and appendices, and often providing examples and translations with the original Greek, it is a reference guide that studies the depth of Theogony and Workds and Days. Both the actual dissertation and the bottom footnotes, complements the academical style down with the full references of the article that the writer obtain.
If you ever wanted more out of the classic, you should get this book instead. Richly informative, structured and at most time, convenient reference to those who need to find the hidden things inside the literature without being wayward about the whole genesis of Ancient Greek's theology.
However, if you're looking for light reading, this is appropriately an academic text as the author is a professor Hence, the density of it. There are other reference guide available in the market, but an essay on Theogony by someone who is obviously an expert in the field, this is priceless even to me who is a science major.… (altro)