Solmsen, Friedrich / Merkelbach, Reinhold / West, Martin L. (ed.). 1990. Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum. 3rd rev. & enl. ed. Oxford: Clarendon.
We will focus on Hesiodus, Theogony (to be read entirely). In addition, we will be reading excerpts from later hexameter poetry; these texts will be distributed (photocopies).
Reading assignments in total
Seminar: Greek Epic Poetry (BA: GRE2401 – MA: GRE4302)
Reading Assignments:
Greek text for translation (compulsory):
Hesiod, Theogony (in full).
Textual editions and commentaries for use (compulsory):
Solmsen, Friedrich, Reinhold Merkelbach & Martin L. West (ed.). 1990. Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum. 3rd rev. & enl. ed. Oxford: Clarendon.
West, Martin L. (ed., comm.). 1966. Hesiod: Theogony. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Secondary literature (compulsory):
Baumbach, Manuel & Alexander Rudolph. 2014. “Helping Zeus by Tricking him? Prome?theus and the Poetics of Succession in Hesiod’s Theogony 538–541.” A&A 60 (2014): 21–36
Cingano, Ettore. 2009. “The Hesiodic Corpus.” In: Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos & Christos Tsagalis (ed.). 2009. Brill’s Companion to Hesiod. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 91–130.
Rengakos, Antonios. 2009. “Hesiod’s Narrative.” In: Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos & Christos Tsagalis (ed.). 2009. Brill’s Companion to Hesiod. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 203–218.
Recommended further reading (optional):
Heitsch, Ernst (ed.). 1966. Hesiod. Darmstadt: WBG (Wege der Forschung 154).
Janko, Richard. 2012. “πρ?τ?ν τε κα? ?στατον α??ν ?ε?δειν: relative chronology and the liter?ary history of the early Greek epos.” In: ?ivind Andersen & Dag T.T. Haug (ed.). 2012. Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 20–43.
Lowe, Nick J. 2000. The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative. Cambridge: CUP.
West, Martin L. 2012. “Towards a chronology of early Greek epic.” In: ?ivind Andersen & Dag T.T. Haug (ed.). 2012. Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 224–41.