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"Here young, established scholars examine poetic texts of wisdom and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. Previous scholarship has engaged with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre. The present volume approaches didactic poetry from different perspectives: the diachronic, mapping the development of didactic through changing social and political landscapes (from Homer and Hesiod to Neo-Latin didactic); and the comparative, setting the Graeco-Roman tradition against a wider backdrop (including ancient near-eastern and contemporary African traditions). Issues include knowledge in its relation to power; cognitive strategies of the didactic text; ethics and poetics; interplay of obscurity and clarity, playfulness and solemnity; authority of the teacher."--

Didactic poetry, Classical --- Didactic poetry, Classical. --- History and criticism. --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- History and criticism

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Connecting Hesiod's The Works and Days and Virgil's Georgics through agricultural and pastoral themes, this study brings them together with a metaphysical eye, showing how the two writers each viewed the farming lifestyle as a system of belief.

Agriculture in literature. --- Agriculture --- Didactic poetry, Classical --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Farm life in literature. --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Gods, Roman, in literature. --- Metaphysics in literature. --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Seasons in literature. --- Seasons in poetry --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Virgil. --- Translations into English. --- Poetry.

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Im frühgriechischen Denken nimmt die Idee der Abhängigkeit menschlichen Lebens von ihn übersteigenden Mächten eine zentrale Stellung ein; der Mensch wird als weitgehend passiv verstanden. Anders Hesiod: Hinter seinen Erga steht das Bild eines aktiven, gestaltenden Menschen, der die Möglichkeit besitzt, sich für ein bestimmtes Handeln - gut wie schlecht - zu entscheiden. Die Entscheidung trifft sein nous (Verstand), der "das eigentliche Selbst des Menschen" (Arbogast Schmitt) darstellt. Soll Handeln erfolgreich sein, muss es sich innerhalb der auf klaren Regeln beruhenden dike-Ordnung (Recht, Gerechtigkeit) bewegen; so kann der Mensch seine Zukunft weitgehend selbst gestalten und seine Ziele (ökonomisch, sozial) verwirklichen. Weil er erkennen kann, was schlecht ist, existiert auch kein scheinbar irrational waltendes Schicksal: Er ist nicht mehr nur Verantwortlicher (wie im homerischen Epos), er ist schuldig (aitios) an dem durch ihn in Gang gesetzten Geschehen. Vorliegende Untersuchung geht nicht nur dieser neuartigen Sichtweise nach, sondern zeigt auch, dass dem nous die Schlüsselfunktion für die adäquate Rezeption der Erga zukommt, die als Vereinigung unterschiedlicher Gattungen Hesiods bereits in der Theogonie erhobenen Anspruch, neuartige Dichtung zu schaffen, einlöst.

Didactic poetry, Classical --- Fate and fatalism in literature. --- Mind and body in literature. --- Epos. --- Farmer's almanac. --- Frühgriechische Literatur. --- Hesiod. --- Lehrdichtung. --- anthropology. --- destiny. --- nous. --- poetics. --- responsibility. --- Schicksal --- Verstand --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Motiv --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- History and criticism. --- Works and days (Hesiod) --- Erga kai hēmerai (Hesiod)

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""The Works and Days"" of Hesiod and Virgil's ""Georgics"" are fundamental texts in the Greek canon. Here Nelson brings them together with a metaphysical eye, showing how the two writers each viewed the farming lifestyle as a system of belief unto itself. A translation of Hesiod is included.

Agriculture in literature. --- Agriculture --- Didactic poetry, Classical --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Farm life in literature. --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Gods, Roman, in literature. --- Metaphysics in literature. --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Seasons in literature. --- Poetry. --- History and criticism. --- Translations into English. --- Hesiod. --- Virgil. --- -Agriculture in literature --- -Didactic poetry, Greek --- -Farm life in literature --- Gods, Greek, in literature --- Gods, Roman, in literature --- Metaphysics in literature --- Mythology, Classical, in literature --- Greek didactic poetry --- Greek poetry --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Hesiodus. --- Virgil --- Virgilio Marone, P., --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- Vergilīĭ, --- Virgile, --- Vergílio, --- Wergiliusz, --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ, --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P., --- Vergil, --- Virgilio, --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P., --- Virgilius Maro, Publius, --- Virgil Maro, P., --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil, --- Pseudo Virgilio, --- Virgilio Marón, Publio, --- Bhārjila, --- Hesiodos --- Hesiod --- Seasons in literature --- Agriculture in literature --- Farm life in literature --- Seasons in poetry