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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-02 - Publisher: BRILL
This fascinating volume rethinks the relationship between early Greek philosophers and the epic poet Hesiod, by presenting fifteen studies that offer different
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:
Homer and Hesiod, Myth and Philosophy is a study of the nature and function of the poetry of Homer and Hesiod when their work is considered in historical contex
Language: en
Pages: 421
Pages: 421
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it r
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-08 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from
Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploratio