Plato and Hesiod

G. R. Boys-Stones is Senior Lecturer in Classics, Durham University.Johannes Haubold is Leverhulme Senior Lecturer in Greek Literature, Durham University.

• Introduction ; I. PLATO AND HESIOD ; 1. Shepherd, Farmer, Poet, Sophist: Hesiod on his own reception ; 2. Hesiod and Plato's History of Philosophy ; 3. Plato's Hesiod: An Acquired Taste? ; 4. Hesiod in Plato: Second Fiddle to Homer? ; 5. Plato's Hesiod: Not Plato's Alone ; 6. Hesiod in Classical Athens: Rhapsodes, Orators, and Platonic Discourse ; 7. Plato's Two Hesiods ; II. INDIVIDUAL DIALOGUES ; 8. The Seductions of Hesiod: Pandora's Presence in Plato's Symposium ; 9. Hesiod's Races and Your Own': Socrates' 'Hesiodic' Project ; 10. Plato's Hesiod and the Will of Zeus: Philosophical Rhapsody in the Timaeus and the Critias ; 11. Chaos Corrected: Hesiod in Plato's Creation Myth ; 12. Hesiod's Theogony and Plato's Timaeus ; 13. Hesiod in the Timaeus: The Demiurge Addresses the Gods ; 14. Hesiod, Plato, and the Golden Age: Hesiodic Motifs in the Myth of the Politicus ; 15. On Grey-Haired Babies: Plato, Hesiod, and Visions of the Past (and Future)

This is a rich and original collection which offers new and exciting insights into Plato's interest in Hesiod as, among other things, a source of authority, a sophistic paradigm, a cosmogonist and an alternative to Homer...The essays in this volume are all original, interesting and, in most cases, provocative (in a good way).