Introduction
I. Plato and Hesiod
1: J. H. Haubold: Shepherd, Farmer, Poet, Sophist: Hesiod on his
own reception
2: G. R.Boys-Stones: Hesiod and Plato's History of Philosophy
3: G. W. Most: Plato's Hesiod: An Acquired Taste?
4: Naoko Yamagata: Hesiod in Plato: Second Fiddle to Homer?
5: Hugo Koning: Plato's Hesiod: Not Plato's Alone
6: Barbara Graziosi: Hesiod in Classical Athens: Rhapsodes,
Orators, and Platonic Discourse
7: Andrew L. Ford: Plato's Two Hesiods
II. Individual Dialogues
8: Vered Lev Kenaan: The Seductions of Hesiod: Pandora's Presence
in Plato's Symposium
9: Helen Van Noorden: Hesiod's Races and Your Own': Socrates'
'Hesiodic' Project
10: Andrea Capra: Plato's Hesiod and the Will of Zeus:
Philosophical Rhapsody in the Timaeus and the Critias
11: E. E. Pender: Chaos Corrected: Hesiod in Plato's Creation
Myth
12: David Sedley: Hesiod's Theogony and Plato's Timaeus
13: Mario Regali: Hesiod in the Timaeus: The Demiurge Addresses the
Gods
14: Dimitri El Murr: Hesiod, Plato, and the Golden Age: Hesiodic
Motifs in the Myth of the Politicus
15: Christopher Rowe: On Grey-Haired Babies: Plato, Hesiod, and
Visions of the Past (and Future)
G. R. Boys-Stones is Senior Lecturer in Classics, Durham
University.
Johannes Haubold is Leverhulme Senior Lecturer in Greek Literature,
Durham University.
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).
*Jenny Bryan, University College London, The Classical Review*
Boys-Stones, Haubold, et al. have succeeded in elevating the
discussion of the neglected relationship between Plato and Hesiod,
thereby paving the way for future work...Hesiod joins the pantheon
of literary rivals with whom Plato sustained a surprisingly deep
and complex relationship.
*Marcus Folch, Columbia University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
ingenius and thought-provoking ... All in all, a most stimulating
collection of papers.
*John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin*
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