Alexander C. Loney is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at Wheaton College. Previously, he was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at Yale University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry, with a monograph on retributive justice in the Odyssey forthcoming with Oxford.Stephen Scully is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has written on Homer, Hesiod, Greek tragedy, Plato, Freud's antiquities, and receptions studies of Homer, Hesiod, and Vergil. Translations include Plato's Phaedrus (2003) and, with Rosanna Warren, Euripides' Suppliant Women (1995).

• Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Stephen Scully and Alexander C. Loney PART I: Hesiod in Context2 The Hesiodic Question Hugo H. Koning 3 Seventh Century Material Culture in Boiotia Stephanie Larson 4 In Hesiod's World David W. Tandy 5 The Pre-history and Analogs of Hesiod's Poetry Joshua T. Katz PART II: Hesiod's Art6 Hesiodic Poetics Stephen Scully 7 Hesiod's Theogony and the Structures of Poetry Benjamin Sammons 8 Hesiod's Temporalities Alexander C. Loney 9 Hesiodic Theology Richard P. Martin 10 Hesiod in Performance Egbert J. Bakker 11 Hesiod's Rhetoric of Exhortation José M. González 12 Gender in Hesiod: A Poetics of the Powerless Suzanne Lye PART III: Hesiod in the Greco-Roman Period13 Solon's Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days J. A. Almeida 14 The Reception of Hesiod by the Early Presocratics Mitchell Miller 15 Deviant Origins: Hesiod's Theogony and the Orphica Radcliffe G. Edmonds III 16 Hesiod and the Visual Arts H. A. Shapiro 17 Hesiod and Pindar Tom Phillips 18 Hesiod and Tragedy Alan H. Sommerstein 19 Hesiod and Comedy Jeffrey Henderson 20 Plato's Hesiod Marcus Folch 21 Hellenistic Hesiod Lilah Grace Canevaro 22 Hesiod from Aristotle to Posidonius David Conan Wolfsdorf 23 Hesiod, Virgil, and the Georgic Tradition Stephanie Nelson 24 Ovid's Hesiodic Voices Ioannis Ziogas 25 Hesiod Transformed, Parodied and Assaulted: Hesiod in the Second Sophistic and Early Christian Thought Helen Van Noorden PART IV: Hesiod from Byzantinum to Modern Times26 Hesiod in the Byzantine and Early Renaissance Periods Niccolò Zorzi 27 Hesiod and Christian Humanism, 1471-1667 Jessica Wolfe 28 Hesiod in the 18th and 19th Centuries Adam Lecznar 29 Theorizing with Hesiod: Freudian Constructs and Structuralism Stephen Scully and Charles Stocking 30 The Reception of Hesiod in the 20th and 21st Centuries Thomas E. Jenkins Index LocorumGeneral Index

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