{"product_id":"hesiod-and-the-beginnings-of-greek-philosophy-9789004513914","title":"Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the role of Hesiod’s poetry in the beginnings of Greek philosophy? This book explores the question by going beyond the traditional responses that stress either continuities or discontinuities between myth and philosophy. Instead, this volume attempts a reflexive or response-oriented approach, that highlights the active re-appropriation and renewal of Hesiodic thought by the Presocratic philosophers. Its fifteen contributions offer large scale comparisons, historiographical considerations, thematic and generic approaches, and detailed case studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The collection is a very fine exception to the tendency of conference volumes to be frustrating to read straight through even when individual papers are excellent. (...) the volume is coherent not only in its overall topic but in aspects of its approach to the question of how we should locate Hesiod in relation to the Presocratics. It moves away from the traditional formulation of a transition from mythos to logos and from the relatively crude question of whether we should emphasize that Hesiod composed mythical genealogies and so belongs to a pre-rational strain of thought or instead that he creates a totalizing system that anticipates later efforts to comprehend the whole of nature. Instead, it tries both to rethink the questions and to examine particular ways that later thinkers engaged with Hesiod.(...)   Iribarren and Koning’s unusually thoughtful and helpful introduction summarizes the modern history of scholarship on Hesiod and the Presocratics. It contextualizes the fifteen papers that follow, providing a richer and more useful account of how this volume functions in relation to earlier discussions than this review possibly can.\"   Ruth Scodell in BMCR 2023.02.17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Leopoldo Iribarren and Hugo Koning    Part 1 Reflections on Hesiod’s Poetry and the Beginnings of Philosophy    1 On Naming the Origins: Hesiod vs. the Ionians    2 Aristotelian Perspectives on Hesiod: A Programmatic Sketch   André Laks    3 Hesiod and the Presocratics: A Hellenistic Perspective?   Richard Hunter    Part 2 Comparisons of Form and Genre    4 Hesiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative   Tom Mackenzie    5 The World of the Catalogue   Glenn W. Most    6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics   Ilaria Andolfi    Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews    7 Thinking about Time and Eternity—From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle   Sandra Šćepanović    8 δίκη in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus   Stephen Scully    9 Xenophanes’ Rejection of Theogony   Shaul Tor    10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles   Jenny Strauss Clay    Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity    11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint   Kathryn Morgan    12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE   Athanassios Vergados    13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles   Xavier Gheerbrant    14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod’s Theogony 783–806 and Empedocles’ Fragment DK B115   Marco Antonio Santamaría    15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato   Valeria Piano    General Index  Index Locorum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210842988887,"sku":"9789004513914","price":133.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hesiod-and-the-beginnings-of-greek-philosophy-9789004513914","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}